AltWeeklies Wire
W.: As Bad as Hoover?new
With six weeks to go before his exit and a longer period after that needed for reflection, it is too early to settle the big academic question of our time: Was George W. Bush as bad as Herbert Hoover?
Arkansas Times |
Ernest Dumas |
12-11-2008 |
Commentary
Boy Killer Mitchell Johnson Speaksnew
On March 24, 1998, the 13-year-old Johnson helped murder four of his classmates and a teacher. Now, his account is public.
Arkansas Times |
David Koon |
12-05-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Why Reward GM? Here's Why ...new
Lee Iacocca isn't running GM, Ford or Chrysler, and the most inept administration in history has made conditions far more daunting, but the stakes are far greater. We should take a deep breath and help the bums.
Arkansas Times |
Ernest Dumas |
11-20-2008 |
Economy
Carpooling's Popularity is on the Rise in Arkansasnew
If you want a real-world example of how $4 a gallon gas began reweaving the fabric of what it is to be American -- or at least what we're willing to put up with -- surf over to one of the numerous online carpool-partner-matching websites.
Arkansas Times |
David Koon |
10-31-2008 |
Transportation
Arkansas Schools Continue Drug Testingnew
Clarksville High School will spend $7,000 this year on random drug tests of students. The school is one of more than 100 in Arkansas that administers such tests. But do they work?
Arkansas Times |
Gerard Matthews |
10-17-2008 |
Education
'City of Ember' Tells it Straight ... Sort Ofnew
It's uneven and flawed and not as totally honest as I might have led you to believe, but at least we're spared yet another round of the Remarkable Boy Who Believed Hard Enough and instead see something that at least approximates the trouble of being a child who must over-come in an adult world.
Arkansas Times |
Matthew Reed |
10-17-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Gil Kenan, City of Ember
Ireland Dispatch: Erin go 'Bamanew
Even in ordinary times, the average sophistication of the Irish on all things American may rival our own. On U.S. politics, Irishmen will be at least as keen as workaday American voters although not nearly as divided. As far as an inquisitive traveler can tell they are all for Barack Obama.
Arkansas Times |
Ernest Dumas |
10-17-2008 |
Commentary
University of Arkansas Wants Bottled Water Off Campusnew
But bottled-water executives ready for another bout with the Sustainability Council at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.
Arkansas Times |
Doug Smith |
10-09-2008 |
Food+Drink
Natural Gas Exploration is Changing the Landscape of Arkansas -- Literallynew
Drilling operations in the Fayetteville Shale (including future operations planned on state Game and Fish lands leased to Chesapeake Energy) are raising environmental concerns. Drilling requires massive amounts of water, and produces a considerable amount of waste.
Arkansas Times |
Gerard Matthews |
10-03-2008 |
Environment
Thanks a Lot, Milton Friedmannew
The worst thing that can happen to an economist is for the politicians to come over to his side and actually implement his grand idea. This week, the men who did the task for Friedman in the United States, or at least some of them, had to sift through the rubble in a very public and self-conscious way and explain why it all turned out so badly.
Arkansas Times |
Ernest Dumas |
10-03-2008 |
Economy
Sensory Overload: 'Blindness' Can be Hard to Watchnew
Don't let its uplifting previews lull you: Every moment of triumph and joy in Blindness has to be earned from a film that may rank among the darkest in cinema.
Arkansas Times |
Sam Eifling |
10-02-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Fernando Meirelles, Blindness
Obama's Mortgage Plan Has Already Been Tried and Defeated in Congressnew
Obama's proposed legislation would allow judges to adjust the mortgage terms of homeowners who are in bankruptcy, so they'd have a better chance of saving their homes from foreclosure. But such legislation was considered by the Senate in April, and defeated. Both Arkansas senators voted against it. Both say there's a good chance they'd do so again, even if the bill had Obama's backing, and even though they're both Democrats and supporting Obama for president.
Arkansas Times |
Doug Smith |
09-25-2008 |
Economy
Who is Sarah Palin?new
By the deft use of lies and distortions McCain, Palin and their surrogates turned a blank canvas overnight into a portrait of a stylish Joan of Arc.
Arkansas Times |
Ernest Dumas |
09-11-2008 |
Commentary
Is Palin the Female Agnew? Or Maybe the Female Quayle?new
History says Democrats ought to worry whenever they find themselves blessed with an able U.S. senator on the ticket and get word of a Republican vice presidential nominee they've never heard of and whose selection seems an affront to responsible governing.
Arkansas Times |
John Brummett |
09-05-2008 |
Commentary
Arkansas Nuns Recall Admitting Black Students in 1952 for DVD Projectnew
Before any other school in the state, as far as they know, the nuns of St. Scholastica monastery invited a couple of girls who'd recently graduated from an all-black Catholic grammar school to enroll in their previously all-white girls high school. Now Fort Smith Historical Society members are interviewing the surviving nuns from that era and preserving the interviews on DVD.
Arkansas Times |
Jennifer Barnett Reed |
09-05-2008 |
Race & Class
