Arkansas

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While Senators Denounce Medicaid, The Uninsured Turn To Charity

Blake Rutherford | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Lamar Alexander, Tennessee, National Association of Free Clinics, Health Care, Arkansas, Politics News

This weekend, thousands of Arkansans convened at the Statehouse Convention Center for a mass free health clinic, the first of its kind in Little Rock.

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Cop Tasers 10-Year-Old Girl With Mom's Permission

AP | Posted 11.19.2009 | Home

OZARK, Ark. — A police officer who used a stun gun on an unruly 10-year-old girl after he said her mother gave him permission has been suspended –...

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The Genius of the Place

Daniel Krotz | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Donald Harington, Alexander Pope, Berryville, Books, Arkansas, Daniel Krotz, Community Gardens, The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks, Gardening, Bookseller, Gardens, Green News

I can clearly see my house, or the beginnings of my house, in the far background of a 1903 postcard of the First Christian Church in Berryville, Arkansas.

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Can We Afford to Let Blanche Lincoln Stop Health Care Reform Dead in Its Tracks?

Howie Klein | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senate Races, Health Care Reform, Arkansas, Filibuster, Cloture, Joe Lieberman, Ben Nelson, K Street, Lobbyists, Politics News

Blue America has run TV spots against Lincoln all summer and fall and she's watched her re-elect numbers dwindle. This week Blue America has a brand new ad for Arkansas voters to look at.

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Chamber Of Commerce To Begin Ads Against Health Care Reform

AP | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arkansas, Ads, Health Care Bill, Gop, Public Option, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Political Ads, Ad, Democrats, Maine, Cable, Louisiana, Advertising, Health Care Reform, Lobbying Group, Chamber of Commerce, Republicans, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Looking to build pressure on moderate Democrats, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says it will begin airing new TV ads in seven states ...

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The Awkward Age

Daniel Krotz | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Arkansas, The Awkward Age, Aging, Bucket List, Henry James, Bookseller, Berryville, The Balanced Life, Living News

I'm caught between a lingering fantasy of a Roman Holiday, and the aspirations of a Care Consultant who hopes I am infirm enough to require batteries for effective locomotion. Goodness, what an awkward age!

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On Deafness And The Middle Distance

Daniel Krotz | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Marcel Proust, Berryville, Daniel Krotz, James Lee Burke, Duck Joke, Deafness, Arkansas, The Inner Life, Living News

Deaf and near-deaf people such as myself operate in a world I think was best captured by classical Chinese painters. Their pictures have no middle distance: we see figures in the foreground, and we see mountains in the far ground, but what we see in the middle is left to the imagination and must be perceived.

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Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce

Daniel Krotz | Posted 11.16.2009 | Books

Read More: Daniel Krotz, Berryville, Charles Dickens, Lawyers, Books, Bookseller, Bleak House, Arkansas, Books News

The message of Bleak House is that a lawsuit is the end of reason and not as we presuppose, the beginning of reasoned argument.

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9-9-09 Baby Has Sibling Born On 8-8-08

AP | Posted 11.11.2009 | Home

Read More: Born, 9-9-09 Baby, Campbell, Molly Reid, Arkansas, Sibling, Home News

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — At least it will be easy to remember their birthdays. An Arkansas couple welcomed a new baby girl into their lives Wednesda...

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Gilbert Baker, Former Arkansas GOP Chair, Announces Senate Bid

CNN | Martina Stewart | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arkansas, Blanche Lincoln, 2010 Elections, Gilbert Baker, Nrsc, Gop, Arkansas-Republican-Party, Politics News

The former chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party said Tuesday he's planning to challenge incumbent Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln. "I have decid...

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Touring the Ozarks, One Crime at a Time

Daniel Krotz | Posted 09.29.2009 | Books

Read More: Mystery, Arkansas, Booksellers, Radine Trees Nehring, Berryville, Ozarks, Books News

"I enjoy spending time with characters who learn, grow, and change through challenges, and who present human strengths of value to us all," Radine said.

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The Uses of Poetry

Daniel Krotz | Posted 09.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Daniel Krotz, Berryville, W.H. Auden, John Milton, Bookseller, David Zimmerman, Poetry, Arkansas, Living News

Fifty years after I found myself begging in London, I continue to find poetry useful.

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My Father's Voice

Beth Arnold | Posted 09.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Arkansas, Loss, Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird, Grief, John F. Kennedy, Greers Ferry Lake, Blanchard Springs, Batesville, Living News

I hadn't heard my father's voice in almost 30 years -- until today, when I played an old tape recording.

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A Brief History of Arkansas Republican Senate Candidates' Bigoted Comments

Senate Guru | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Curtis Coleman, Politics, Republican Bigotry, Blanche Lincoln, Curtis Reynolds, Kim Hendren, Arkansas Republicans, Arkansas, Anti-Semitism, Racism, Republicans, Senate, Ar-Sen, Senate Races, Politics News

A big problem for the Arkansas GOP is that several of the 2010 candidates for U.S. Senate in Arkansas have recently made racist, anti-Semitic, or otherwise bigoted comments.

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All Literature is Gossip

Daniel Krotz | Posted 09.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Dan Krotz, Berryville, John Heartbreak, Book Collecting, Arkansas, Chesterton, Booksellers, Entertainment News

The modern world does not wear its heart on its sleeve," John said, to no one in particular, apropos of nothing. He sipped a cup of coffee and stared off into space. "It wears it up its sleeve like a card shark."

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On The Collecting of Books

Daniel Krotz | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Daniel Krotz, Book Collecting, Books, Bookseller, Sue Grafton, Larry McMurtry, Arkansas, Living News

The single piece of advice I give to a prospective collector is that if a book makes you cry, collect it. I suppose that's why I own nine copies of The Sun Also Rises.

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Talk Radio Rules Blue Dog States

Sue Wilson | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media

22 percent of Americans get their news from talk radio, and conservative talkers, like Hannity and Limbaugh, have been lying to their listeners about what's in the health care bill.

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Letters From the Pen: A Review

Daniel Krotz | Posted 08.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Berryville, Prisons, Boian Books, Bookseller, Arkansas, Lovely County Citizen, Eureka Springs, Living News

Letters offers an opportunity to witness a man in an unusual, if not unique, situation as he fine-tunes his craft and his understanding of the human condition.

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Burying Ben Franklin

Daniel Krotz | Posted 08.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Dan Krotz, Berryville, Bookseller, Ben Franklin, Student Loans, Arkansas, Business News

My friend is depressed by how things are turning out. He realizes how unreflective he has been, and he has suddenly realized how badly people are being served by our institutions.

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Hog Wild! Pigs Shut Down Arkansas Interstate

AP | Posted 07.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Hogs, Arkansas, Pigs, Green News

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Hogs on the highway aren't always motorcycles. Arkansas State Police say a tractor-trailer rig hauling pigs overturned early...

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As Senators Huddle Over Bill, Grass-Roots Drive, Pro-Labor Ads Pressure Wavering Dems (VIDEO)

Art Levine | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arlen Specter, Blanche Lincoln, Mark Pryor, Arkansas, Tom Harkin, Afl-Cio, Chamber of Commerce, Seiu, Politics News

Senators, led by Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin, are stepping up the pace of negotiations for a version of the Employee Free Choice Act that could be introduced by next month.

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Manscaping

Daniel Krotz | Posted 07.12.2009 | Style

Read More: Secret History, Berryville, Hillary Rettig, G.K. Chesterton, Larry McMurtry, Arkansas, Procopius, Style News

Hillary Rettig says, "Manscaping is taking some raw, unfinished, barely civilized grunter of a guy and making him fabulous." In broad terms: the landscaping of poky territory between a man's foot and head.

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Broadening the Campaign for the Employee Free Choice Act

Stewart Acuff | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arkansas, Blanche Lincoln, Workers, Employee Free Choice Act, Union Organizing, Afl-Cio, Stewart Acuff, Union, Politics News

The campaign to pass the Employee Free Choice Act continues to broaden.

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On Deafness

Daniel Krotz | Posted 07.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Deafness, Arkansas, Cochlear Implant, Hearing Loss, Berryville, Bookseller, Deaf Culture, Living News

I am almost entirely deaf. I don't mind very much. I've heard just about everything already and I don't think I'll miss hearing it the second or third time around.

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