Arkansas Times
Today in Arkansas: Vacation from politics
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- Today in Arkansas: Vacation from politics
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- 4:25
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior editor Max Brantley with news Wednesday, Sept. 24. First, an invitation to participate in a Q&A before Max heads to Hungary for two weeks. Also: Insurance dominates Capitol reporting; French Hill goes dishonestly negative; Lesie Rutledge stonewalls; groups ask that you remember women and children when you vote; and Central High stands out.
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- Today in Arkansas: Poll woes for Democrats
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- 5:25
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior editor Max Brantley with news Tuesday, Sept. 23. The lead is new polling that shows Republicans in the lead up and down the Arkansas ballot. Other news: More documents on GOP attorney general hopeful Leslie Rutledge; an alternative to the death penalty; a probe of a senator and Supreme Court justice's chat; wiomen and the NFL.
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- Today in Arkansas: Communicating with the court
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- 3:54
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior editor Max Brantley with news Monday, Sept. 22. A complaint has been filed about communications between a same-sex marriage foe, Sen. Jason Rapert, and members of the Arkansas Supreme Court. Other news: Gubernatorial debate rehash; Big River Steel; ballot issues; gay rights in Fayetteville
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- Today in Arkansas: Let's Debate
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- 4:27
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior editor Max Brantley with news Friday, Sept. 19. A live TV gubernatorial debates is the top news today. Also: Legislators junket in Alaska; Little Rock School board division; the Pryors do Facebook; Supreme Court politics, and an Arkansas Times birthday.
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- Today in Arkansas: Al Capone's Vault
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- 4:04
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior Editor Max Brantley with news Thursday, Sept. 18. First, OK the teasted release of new documents in the attorney general's race yesterday was a bust. Today: An escaped killer caught; Uber comes to LR and Fayetteville; John Daly closes his golf course; ASU goes Christian; lottery business smells fishy.
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- Today in Arkansas: New disclosures in attorney general's race
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- 4:38
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior editor Max Brantley with news Wednesday, Sept. 17. Documents are expected today that shed more light on the quality of the state legal work by Leslie Rutledge, once a state lawyer who's now the GOP candidate for attorney general. Also: Broadway Bridge, new jobs at the airport, school elections, Mike Huckabee's beach house and Tom Cotton's college record.
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- Today in Arkansas: Wheelchair arrests
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- 4:28
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior editor Max Brantley with news Tuesday, Sept. 16. Demonstrations by disability rights activists led to more arrests today as well as an issue in the race for governor. Also: More politics; airport improvements; a county jail sex scandal and election results tonight.
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- Today in Arkansas: In defense of marriage equality
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- 5:20
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior editor Max Brantley with news Monday, Sept. 15. The Pulaski County clerk, though a defendant, agrees same-sex marriage ban should be struck down. Also: Political polling; French HIlls straddles on minimum wage; Davy Carter goes bipartisan; Mike Huckabee drops hints, and we discuss corporal punishment.
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- Today in Arkansas: Tight race for TV ads
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- 4:51
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior editor Max Brantley with Arkansas news Friday, Sept. 12. Democrats remain competitive in the TV spending race, it not always in the polls. Abortion is an issue in the race for governor. And some tips for the weekend: Celebrate our 40th birthday with a Latino music and food festival.
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- Today in Arkansas: Let's debate!
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- 5:35
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior editor Max Brantley with news on Thursday, 9/11. At least one Senate debate is set for TV. Otherwise, the news is all in Faulkner County, where a judge was removed from the bench and a stink has arisen over favoritism in handling of divorce cases. And more.
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- Today in Arkansas: Farmers and women's paychecks
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- 4:43
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior editor Max Brantley with news headlines Wednesday, Sept. 10: Farmers, the Koch brothers and women are in the spotlight today in the race for U.S. Senate. Also: Private clubs; religion and football, a gubernatorial debate, and tribute to a librarian.
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- Today in Arkansas: Repealing Citizens United
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- 4:43
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior editor Max Brantley has news headlines Tuesday, Sept. 9, beginning with Mark Pryor's support for a constittutional amendment to reimpose limits on corporate cash in political races. Also: A hospital scandal; birds imperiled by global warning; a prison killer on Facebook; the attorney general is high on the Hogs.
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- Today in Arkansas
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- 5:29
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Today in Arkansas: GOP flip-flops on minimum wage
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- 3:57
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior editor Max Brantley with news headlines Friday, Sept. 5. Top story is flip-flop by top GOP candidates. They can read polls. NOW they like the minimum wage increase. Arkansas women voters need some education, however. Also: Death in police chase; Saline alcohol vote; beards in prison.
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- Today in Arkansas: Truth in Political advertising
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- 4:48
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior Editor Max Brantley with news headlines Thursday, Sept. 4. The lies come fast and furious in the race for U.S. Senate and governor. Also: A police chase death; Mark Darr pays up; UA says thank goodness for Texas; and a lamentation for the sorry state of men.
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- My Edited Video
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- 3:39
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (http://www.youtube.com/editor)
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- 1:38
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- 12 years ago
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- 0:24
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- 12 years ago
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- 0:25
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- 12 years ago
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- 1:13
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- 12 years ago
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- Today in Arkansas: Better pay enters the campaign
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- 4:09
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior editor Max Brantley with a video news roundup: Democrats think they have a winner of an issue now that a minimum wage increase has been certified for the ballot. Also today: Record enrollment at UA; Democrats contest Republican territory; an Arby's robbery suspect with a long history; a hot mike figures in a UALR official's departure.
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- Today in Arkansas: Let's vote -- on alcohol and wages
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- 4:04
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior editor Max Brantley with news headlines Tuesday, Sept. 2. The topics: Ballot measures to allow statewide sale of alcohol and increase the minimum wage; rich Arkies take advantage of an end to campaign spending limits; bikers face a tacky problem; and experts assess the value of high-paid football coaches like Bret Bielema.
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- Today in Arkansas: Abortion and Mark Pryor
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- 3:15
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior editor Max Brantley with news headlines Friday, Aug. 29: Republicans make abortion an issue against Mark Pryor. Also: Uber, the great grain disaster, unsafe apartments and -- is it really football season?
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- Today in Arkansas: More Obamacare
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- 4:48
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior editor Max Brantley with news headlines Thursday, Aug. 28. Including: More help from Obamacare for taking care of people at home; polls show Pryor and Ross up; GOP vote suppression continues; Uber comes to Fayetteville; and debate rages on Arkansas's favorite dessert.
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- Today in Arkansas: Can't somebody make it stop?
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- 5:41
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior Editor Max Brantley with video news roundup for Wednesday, Augu. 27. Cotton-Pryor follies. Will they ever end? Also: Jermain Taylor's in trouble, Chris Christie is in Arkansas, Arkansas gets high marks for Obamacare and Judge Richard Posner speaks some plain truth about marriage equality.
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- Today in Arkansas: Public pensions
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- 4:35
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior Max Brantley with news headlines Tuesday, Aug. 26: Forget about that idea of combining state pension plans; black lawyers want study of LR police brutality; Democrats push equal pay for women; Tom Cotton gets tagged on Ebola; and Liz Honey is back on video, loving her Hogs.
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- Today in Arkansas: Jonesboro police chief quits
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- 3:29
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior Editor Max Brantley with news headlines Monday, Aug. 25. Jonesboro Police Chief Mike Yates, suspended over Facebook comments, calls it quits. West Memphis hospital closes. Mark Darr still owes Arkansas. A Republican candidate goes after a 4-year-old. Brandon Allen's truck torched.
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- Today in Arkansas: Jonesboro police chief suspended
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- 3:09
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior editor Max Brantley with news headlines Friday, Aug. 22. Facebook foolishness gets Jonesboro police chief suspended (after broadcast); death in Bryant hit-and-run; family killing/robbery in Brinkley; a Hobby Lobby workaround from President Obama; Clinton Library prepares for a big birthday.
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- Today in Arkansas: Does Mitt Matter?
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- 5:06
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior editor Max Brantley with news Thursday, Aug. 21: Mitt Romney campaigns for Tom Cotton; we have documents on Uber's eye on Little Rock; Nate Steel's agenda; state pension controversy; the Buffalo River hog farm won't go away; are you ready for some Razorback football?
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- Today in Arkansas: Equality comes to Fayetteville
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- 5:00
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior editor Max Brantley with news highlights on Wednesday, Aug. 20. Topics: Fayetteville's adoption of civil rights protection for gays; a Little Rock City Board reversal; feel-good ads from Democratic candidates; Mitt Romney comes to town; the Arkansas Lottery takes another financial lick; newspaper wants Jonesboro police chief fired.
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- Keith Ray coaching Corey Livsey on testimony for Gyronne Buckley trial
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- 17:06
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- A federal magistrate determined that the video contains 38 instances where Livsey's recollections of events differed from his testimony in the 1999 trial of Gyronne Buckley. Buckley was sentenced to life.
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- Today in Arkansas: Expensive prisons
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- 4:16
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Times senior editor Max Brantley with today's news roundup: The cost and value of more prisons; civil rights and bathroom fights in Fayetteville; the Little Rock private club ordinance; dangerous Little Rock; Mark Martin fesses up to tax dodging; Little Rock airport makeover
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- Today in Arkansas: Twice is nice for Mark Martin
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- 3:01
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Secretary of State Mark Martin claims two tax exemptions, Tim Griffin challenges Max to dump ice water on his head, Dogpatch sells to the inventor of the spill-proof dog bowl and the police in Ferguson, Mo. continue to make bad decisions.
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- Today in Arkansas: Militarized cops
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- 3:18
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior editor Max Brantley with news headlines thursday, Aug. 14: Militarized cops aren't found only in Ferguson, Mo. Arkansas cops are armored up too. Democrats mark Social Security's birthday. Alcohol and minimum wage petitions head to the ballot Senators propose end to state's No. 2 job.
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- Today in Arkansas: Late night in Little Rock
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- 3:50
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior Editor Max Brantley with Arkansas news Aug. 13. Late-night clubs may preserve their 5 a.m. closing time. Democrats build a campaign on the minimum wage. State Suprreme Court shows a fracture. Mike Huckabee stands out in Robin Williams commentary.
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- Today in Arkansas: Troubles for Tea Party
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- 3:01
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior editor Max Brantley with today's video news roundup: An internal memo reveals cracks in a key Tea Party political organizatinin Arkansas. Legal fight continues on alcohol vote. Suit challenges new steel mill. Bill Clinton coming to town. Early reads: Obamacare benefits for Arkansas and the bad politics behind a city board Murphy gas station vote.
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- Today in Arkansas: Voter ID law tested
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- 4:01
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior editor Max Brantley with news on Monday, Aug. 11. Brief in the Voter ID law challenge; a good poll for Mark Pryor; city board set to talk about private club closing hours; Hillary Clinton sounds presidential; and -- found -- the most liberal city in Arkansas.
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- Today in Arkansas: TGI Obamacare
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- 3:08
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior Editor Max Brantley with news Friday, Aug. 8. Obamacare beneficiaries push 200,000 in Arkansas. Walmart wants a share of the O'care money. Speaking of money: Tight-fisted congressional candidate French Hill has plenty. Crime and the Dallas Cowboys are also in the news.
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- Today in Arkansas: Ross defends the private option
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- 4:03
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior Editor Max Brantley with a news roundup for Aug. 7 Mike Ross endorses private option health insurance while Asa dodges; Fayetteville fights a gay rights battle; are conservatives wusses?; cheer mom from reality TV show heads to prison; a hot race in the offing for Bryant mayor.
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- Today in Arkansas: A judge goes down
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- 4:02
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior editor Max Brantley with news headlines Wed., Aug. 5. Judge Mike Maggio admits ethics violations and gives up being a judge -- forever. Polling shows strength for Beebe, not so much for Hillary. Gay rights are protested in Fayetteville. Hot Springs school hits bitcoin bonanza.
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- Today in Arkansas: Thank you Obamacare
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- 3:34
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior Editor Max Brantley with today's Arkansas headlines: The state leads the country in getting the uninsured health coverage thanks to Obamacare. Polls favor Republican candidates who hate Obamacare just the same. Tom Cotton hit on vote against Children's Hospital. A K-9 in quarantine. The Hogs practice in secret.
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- Today in Arkansas: Should Supreme Court justices get off marriage case?
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- 3:40
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior editor Max Brantley reviews Arkansas news Monday, Aug. 4. A recusal motion in the same-sex marriage case; the U.S. Senate race; UALR's competition from on-line courses; big money at UA; Ebola demagogugery and topless Texans are in the news.
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- The secrets of the Bar-B-Que Shack, Home of the Smoking Cannon
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- 5:12
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- In the latest Eat Arkansas video, Gary Green, owner of Jacksonville's The Bar-B-Que Shack, talks about what makes his restaurant special, including the unheralded importance of cumin in chili and a secret seasoning that a previous owner earned by working for its inventor for free for two weeks.
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- Today in Arkansas: The silence of the cop radios
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- 2:34
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior editor Max Brantley with news headlines Friday, Aug. 1. The end of public police radio broadcasts; the race for governor; new apartments downtown, and a turkey napping are in the news. Forgot to mention: new poll on medical marijuana in Arkansas.
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- Today in Arkansas: Polls suggest dead heat in Arkansas Senate race
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- 4:57
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Arkansas Times Senior Editor Max Brantley talks about new polls in the Senate and governor's race, the latest local option alcohol petition gathering, Sen. Johnny Key resigning to take a lobbying gig and Big River Stee's John Correnti being the hypocrite of the year.
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- Today in Arkansas: Date set on marriage case appeal
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- 2:32
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior editor Max Brantley with headlines July 30. Progress on the marriage equality case pares with more discrimination from Jerry Cox of the Family Council. Lost newspaper jobs; a wet/dry vote; a contoversial C-store, and a liberal pope are also on the agenda.
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- Today in Arkansas: Abortion and politics
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- 3:24
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior editor Max Brantley with the headlines Tuesday, July 29. A court ruling on an abortion clinic in Mississippi has relevance in Arkansas. Politics, pagans, ethics and the minimum wage are among our topics.
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- Today in Arkansas: Police radios go silent
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- 4:10
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Senior Editor Max Brantley reviews the news Monday, July 28. Little Rock cop radios are encrypted. Asa Hutchinson copes with a tax foulup. Little Rock considers earlier closing hours for private clubs. And there's no end of what Tom Cotton can blame on President Obama.
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- Today in Arkansas: Hillary Clinton does her homework
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- 2:29
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Today in Arkansas: Who is Tom Cotton?
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- 2:33
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Arkansas Times Senior Editor Max Brantley talks about the biggest stories of the day in Arkansas on July 24, 2014. Who pays for toll roads? Who is Tom Cotton? Brett Morgan: Country living, city service. The Pulaski jail reopens. There's a Walmart leadership change.

