AltWeeklies Wire
The State of the Little Rock Music Scenenew
There's more live music than ever in the city -- but can there be too much of a good thing?
Arkansas Times |
Lindsey Millar |
11-26-2007 |
Music
When is it Legal to Shoot?new
The shooting death of 18-year-old Bryant Cross has raised questions about the right of property owners to use force against trespassers.
Arkansas Times |
John Williams |
11-09-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Arkansas: Are We Blue?new
Arkansans welcome immigrants, they favor legal abortion, they are growing increasingly comfortable with gay people and less comfortable with punishing them, and they favor Hillary Clinton for president. So then: Tell me again just how conservative Arkansas is.
Arkansas Times |
Max Brantley |
11-09-2007 |
Commentary
Small State Insights Into the Presidential Racenew
Are national reporters trying to tell me that Mike Huckabee is the best the Republicans have to offer?
Arkansas Times |
John Brummett |
11-02-2007 |
Commentary
Strange Bedfellows, United in Fear of Mike Huckabeenew
Now that Huckabee has gained ground, pushback from Republican opponents has begun. If national reporters ever get beyond their lazy narrative, they'll also find a record unacceptable to most Democrats, not to mention many swing voters. With the George Bush experience in 2000 as a guide, however, that's a mighty big "if."
Arkansas Times |
Max Brantley |
11-02-2007 |
Commentary
Jekyll and Mike Huckabeenew
Huckabee has either reinvented himself in the national campaign or else we underestimated his dexterity at the oldest political art, telling everyone what they want to hear and getting away with it.
Arkansas Times |
Ernest Dumas |
11-02-2007 |
Commentary
Judges May Soon Be Taking Sides in Arkansasnew
The old system restricting the speech and actions of judges and judicial candidates is crashing, as federal and state courts are ruling that these restrictions on judicial speech violate the First Amendment. Newer, more free-wheeling rules should make for more interesting politics, but they may make for worse law.
Arkansas Times |
Doug Smith |
11-02-2007 |
Politics
Little Rock Faces a Charter School Invasionnew
A record six charter schools want to open in the city, but failures around the state cast a shadow.
Arkansas Times |
Jennifer Barnett Reed |
10-26-2007 |
Education
It's Turning Out to Be a Big Year for the Mormonsnew
Coincidentally, Mitt Romney's presidential race is contemporaneous with the release of a movie dramatizing the darkest moment in Mormon history, the massacre of some 120 non-Mormons in a Utah meadow 150 years ago.
Arkansas Times |
Doug Smith |
10-18-2007 |
Religion
Tags: religion
Politics with Merle and Brucenew
It turns out that a couple of my musical favorites have made political news lately -- perhaps it's mildly ironic that Merle Haggard seems more relevant than Bruce Springsteen.
Arkansas Times |
John Brummett |
10-18-2007 |
Commentary
The Greening of Europenew
Europe's most stern rebuke of Bush and the American Right is the popularization of energy and environmental conservation in a mature culture that is just as accustomed to luxury as Americans.
Arkansas Times |
Ernest Dumas |
10-18-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Outside Wine Trickles into Arkansas Marketsnew
In March, the state legislature passed a law allowing groceries and convenience stores to sell wine from other states, but some have been slow to add non-Arkansas vintages to the shelves.
Arkansas Times |
John Williams |
10-12-2007 |
Food+Drink
Hillary Clinton's Health Plannew
The new Hillary health-care plan is fundamentally like the old one but without all the regulatory detail that flummoxed Americans and without the layer of health-care "alliances" and the confusing nomenclature like "managed competition" that allowed opponents to create scary scenarios.
Arkansas Times |
Ernest Dumas |
10-12-2007 |
Commentary
Slouching Towards Equalitynew
Looking back at the Little Rock Public Schools' desegregation crisis, 50 years later.
Arkansas Times |
Johanna Miller Lewis |
09-21-2007 |
Race & Class
Mike Huckabee's Pulpit Politicsnew
Churches aren't given their tax breaks to spend the money on politicians, but tell that to the Baptist minister who recently used church stationery and an internet radio program to endorse a fellow Baptist minister for president. It's time for Huckabee to speak out against this.
Arkansas Times |
Editorial |
08-23-2007 |
Commentary
