AltWeeklies Wire
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
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
Pay Gap for Women at Arkansas Collegesnew
One thing women want is equal pay for equal work, and there's considerable evidence they aren't getting it in an area where one might expect the most enlightenment on this issue -- higher education.
Arkansas Times |
Doug Smith |
08-23-2007 |
The War on Women
How Money & Politics Contaminated Plasma Programnew
A widow is fighting to open records on how tainted blood plasma from Arkansas prisoners entered the U.K. and led to the death of her husband.
Arkansas Times |
Mara Leveritt |
08-17-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Arkansas's Best Doctors 2007new
From bench to bedside, Little Rock's Finest
Arkansas Times |
Leslie Newell Peacock |
08-02-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
A Son's Quest to Find His Mother's Killernew
Thirty-one years after she went missing, what happened to Linda Edwards remains one of the most famous cold cases in Arkansas police history.
Arkansas Times |
Mara Leveritt |
07-26-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Hate thy Neighbornew
A racist letter to a black neighbor in Arkansas becomes a federal case.
Arkansas Times |
John Williams |
07-19-2007 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
The Missing Linknew
A scientist discovers that evolution is missing from Arkansas classrooms.
Arkansas Times |
Jason R. Wiles |
03-23-2006 |
Education
New Orleans Had Long Begged for Help, Unheedednew
The "war on terror" sucked up so much funding previously allocated to disaster preparedness that the country risked losing New Orleans, says a writer who proposed a book on the topic months before Hurricane Katrina.
Arkansas Times |
Mara Leveritt |
09-13-2005 |
Disasters
Tags: oil, Homeland Security, Hurricane Katrina, evacuation, Louisiana, Port, Asa Hutchinson, body bags, Borders and Transportation Security, breach levees, deaths toll, governor candidate Arkansas, haz-mat suits, Mark Davis, Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, Port Fourchon, the director of emergency management for New Orleans’ Jefferson Parish, Walter Maestri
Busted in Boomtownnew
Once a desperately poor region populated by hardscrabble mountain-dwellers, Northwest Arkansas is now one of the fastest-growing areas in the country, fueled by a hub of home-grown Fortune 500 companies.
Arkansas Times |
Warwick Sabin |
08-04-2005 |
Economy
Border Statenew
The support network struggles to catch up with Arkansas’s status as a prime destination for Latino immigrants.
Arkansas Times |
Warwick Sabin |
06-27-2005 |
Immigration
Tags: Immigration
Small School of Public Service Has Large Visionnew
The University of Arkansas's Clinton School of Public Service, located in a renovated Little Rock railway station, will be the only school in the United States to offer a graduate degree in public service.
Arkansas Times |
Jennifer Barnett Reed |
11-12-2004 |
Education
Too Fat!new
Arkansas's got perhaps the skinniest governor and the fattest children in America. One wants to help the other -- and their loss could be his gain.
Arkansas Times |
Leslie Newell Peacock |
10-15-2004 |
Science
Complete Fabricationnew
A crucial witness says her testimony in the West Memphis Three murder case wasn't true, but a product of police pressure to get results in the death of three children.
Arkansas Times |
Tim Hackler |
10-08-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Survey Says?new
News organizations especially should insist on the best methods for the polls they commission. However, the reality is that newspapers and television stations across the country are only interested in sharing credit for the surveys and making news by announcing the results.
Arkansas Times |
Warwick Sabin |
10-08-2004 |
Media
