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Should State Education Chiefs Be Elected?

stateline | Ben Wieder | Posted 10.26.2012 | Home
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This piece comes to us courtesy of Stateline. Stateline is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news service of the Pew Center on the States that provides daily r...

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Pay Equity: Calling Out Walmart's Two Wealthiest Women

Abigail Lofberg | Posted 06.04.2012 | Politics
Read More: Walmart Sex Bias, Supreme Court, Walmart, Alice Walton Walmart, Christy Walton, Alice Walton, Walmart Wages, Politics News
Abigail Lofberg

The reticence of Alice and Christy Walker to provide a basic sense of equality within their corporation -- well, one can go so far as to say it is a betrayal. Should I find myself in a workplace so fraught with inequity, where is my legal recourse?

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These Are The Richest Women In The World

Posted 05.26.2012 | Business
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The richest women may span the globe, but two of them come from the same family: the Waltons. Two of the Walmart heirs capture spots one and and t...

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Who Are America's 6 Richest Women?

LearnVest | Posted 05.24.2012 | Home
Read More: The One Percent, Wealthy Women, Forbes Rich List, Laurene Powell Jobs, Forbes Richest Americans, Jacqueline Mars, Billionaires, Christy Walton, Abigail Johnson, Alice Walton, Rich Women, Anne Cox Chambers, Home News
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Forbes' comprehensive list of the world's billionaires (there are 1226) came out recently, and we were curious -- are there women on the list? Turns out, there are.

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Paul Brady

PHOTOS: A New Museum Is Changing Everything In Small-Town Arkansas

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Brady | Posted 11.05.2012 | Travel
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Lawn signs are taking over Bentonville, Arkansas. Blue and green, staked in yards and hung in windows, they're everywhere you turn, in parks, outside ...

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Crystal Bridges Gazing: My Video Tour of Alice Walton's New Museum

Lee Rosenbaum | Posted 01.28.2012 | Arts
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Lee Rosenbaum

Whatever its faults, Alice's Palace is, overall, an arresting, rewarding creation. However it stacks up against the great public collections of American art, Crystal Bridges is undeniably a great boon for its art-starved region.

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Wal-Mart Heiress Stands Firm As Art Museum Set To Open

Posted 01.07.2012 | Arts
Read More: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Arkansas, Republican Fundraising, Arkansas Museum, Walton Family, Alice Walton, Bentonville Arkansas, Wall Street Journal, Wal-Mart, Sam Walton, Video, Nick Cave Soundsuits, Museums, Republican, Crystal Bridges, Nick Cave, Republicans, Arts News

At this point, Alice Walton knows how to brush off the critics. After unveiling plans for the new Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in her hometo...

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Wal-Mart Heiress Opens 'Nation's Most Important New Art Museum In A Generation'

AP | CHUCK BARTELS | Posted 01.08.2012 | Home
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BENTONVILLE, Ark. — As an heir to the Wal-Mart fortune, Alice Walton had the means to buy almost any piece of art on the market. So she scooped ...

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Verdict On Walton's Crystal Bridges Museum? 'Impressive.'

ARTINFO | Posted 12.08.2011 | Arts
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ARTINFO

Want a sneak peek of the best funded, most controversial, and most highly anticipated museum opening in recent history? Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton's mammoth Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas will soon be open for business, and the Washington Post's Philip Kennicott snagged the coveted first look.

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School Choice Advocates Hope To Build On Gains

| Bill Lueders | Posted 11.25.2011 | Home
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This piece comes to us courtesy of the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism. This is the third of a three-part series by Bill Lueders exam...

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How The Walmart Family Heirs And Others Are Changing The Face Of Education

| Bill Lueders | Posted 11.20.2011 | Home
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This piece comes to us courtesy of the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism. This is the first of a three-part series by Bill Lueders exam...

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Wal-Mart's Museum: Let Them Eat Art

Al Norman | Posted 10.02.2011 | Business
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Al Norman

It's regrettable that Wal-Mart does not exhibit the same passion for American-made products as its Museum does for the acquisition of American-made art.

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Wal-Mart's $20M Donation Makes Crystal Bridges Free

Posted 09.28.2011 | Arts
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With recent announcements of admission and membership fee increases, seeing art at some museums has gotten more expensive this summer. But a $20 milli...

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Detainees, Discoveries & Dads: Highlights This Week

Posted 08.24.2011 | Arts
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It's been a busy week here on the HuffPost Arts': Walmart heiress Alice Walton is opening her own art museum, detained artist Ai Weiwei was finally re...

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Walmart Heir's Mega-Museum

Posted 08.20.2011 | Arts
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A piece in next week's New Yorker will shed some light on Alice Walton, art collector and daughter of Walmart's founder, Sam Walton. Her collection, t...

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Countries Billionaires Could Buy: Forbes

forbes.com | Brian S. Wesbury and Robert Stein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, North Korea, Costa Rica, Carribean, Billionaires, Mozambique, Alice Walton, Business News

Castles in France. Islands in the Caribbean. Private jets. With a collective $1.27 trillion at their disposal, the members of The Forbes 400 could buy...

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