Arkansas Times
Today in Arkansas
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- Today in Arkansas
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- 2:59
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Today in Arkansas: Obamacare
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- 4:01
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Today's headlines: Court decisions could affect insurance coverage in Arkansas. Petitioners and opponents battle over booze. A one-year anniversary story on a medical miracle.
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- Today in Arkansas: Cotton and Pryor debate debating
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- 2:33
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- 12 years ago
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- Arkansas Times Senior Editor Max Brantley talks about the news of the day in Arkansas on July 21, including the Tom Cotton and Mark Pryor fighting over debates, unfair attacks on Mike Ross's voting history, an ethics proposal by Treasurer candidate Karen Garcia and more.
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- Today in Arkansas: Woo Pie Sooie!
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- 2:36
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Today's video reports on the drive for a statewide vote on retail alcohol sales; crime in Little Rock; expensive prisons, and the trademarking of the Razorbacks' Hog Call.
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- Today in Arkansas: Let's debate
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- 2:42
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Today's news headlines: A 2nd Pryor-Cotton debate; the Little Rock mayor and crime; gay rights advance in Florida and Fayetteville, and Walmart sticks by its store gun policy.
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- Today in Arkansas: Minimum wage increase stays alive
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- 2:18
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Today's video news roundup: The drive for a minimum wage increase; action in the same-sex marriage lawsuit; school employee insurance sticker shock; domestic violence strategy, and a new restaurant on Main Street.
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- Today in Arkansas: Ross's crimefighting agenda
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- 2:18
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Mike Ross, the Democratic candidate for governor, outlined his crime-fighting agenda today. It has similarities and differences with what Republican Asa Hutchinson has already announced. Also in the news roundup: Highway money, abortion, voting rights and cool weather.
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- Today in Arkansas -- Is Little Rock ready for Uber?
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- 2:59
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Today in Arkansas: Ross and Hutchinson debate
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- 3:26
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- News headlines July 11: Mike Ross wins a gubernatorial debate; candidates for lieutenant governor and attorney general also square off. Also: A controversial Civil Service Commission ruling gets more complicated with a residency question and a cool front is coming.
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- Today in Arkansas: The wild attempt by Republicans to brand James Lee Witt a radical
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- 2:45
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Arkansas Times Senior Editor Max Brantley talks about the biggest news in Arkansas on July 10, 2014. Including questions about new Little Rock tech park developments, a push by a new group to help Democrats win in Arkansas and the more.
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- Today in Arkansas: Another white guy named to Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
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- 2:05
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Today in Arkansas: Cotton vs. Pryor heats up
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- 2:32
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Arkansas Times Senior Editor Max Brantley talks about the biggest news in Arkansas on July 8, 2014: Sen. Mark Pryor and U.S. Rep. Tom Cotton attack each other over disaster funding. Ready for Hillary campaign turns money over to state Democrats. And more.
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- Today in Arkansas: Petitions for vote on state alcohol sales submitted
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- 2:58
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Arkansas Times Senior Editor Max Brantley talks about the biggest news in Arkansas on July 7: Groups trying to get proposals to raise the minimum wage and allow retail sale of alcohol in every county in the state have turned in their petitions. Asa Hutchinson tries to walk a fine line on the Hog farm in the Buffalo River watershed. A new hospital breaks ground in Conway. And more.
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- Today in Arkansas: Two Arkansas Supreme Court justices want to polygraph employees
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- 2:38
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Arkansas Times Senior Editor Max Brantley talks about the biggest news in Arkansas in July 3: The economy is on the rise. The minimum wage keeps its petition drive going. Two Arkansas Supreme Court judges want to administer lie detector tests to employees to try to find leaks. Plus more.
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- Today in Arkansas: Cotton attacks Pryor on religion
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- 3:04
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Pulblished July 2, 2014
Tom Cotton attacks Sen. Mark Pryor's religion. Problems emerge for the minimum wage campaign. A study says alcohol sales would be an economic boon to dry counties. Eureka Springs plans a big fat gay wedding reception. Target stores ban guns. Jails cut costs on inmates plates and the underwear drawer.
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- Today in Arkansas
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- 3:35
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Today in Arkansas: Cotton cheers Hobby Lobby ruling
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- 3:28
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Arkansas Times Senior Editor Max Brantley talks about the biggest news in Arkansas on Monday, June 30: Tom Cotton says he thinks the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby ruling is great. The Arkansas General Assembly appears to have reached a compromise on legislation that will limit the Arkansas lottery from expanding into video-style games. Staffers for the Arkansas lieutenant governor's office end their time doing nothing.
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- Today in Arkansas: Oaklawn doesn't want you to gamble anywhere but Oaklawn
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- 2:44
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Arkansas Times Senior Editor Max Brantley talks about the news of the day in Arkansas on Friday, June 27: The special session of the Arkansas General Assembly will now consider a bill to prohibit the Arkansas lottery from offering video monitor games (that's a win for Oaklawn). State employees could be hurt by the public school employee insurance fund proposal the General Assembly will consider. Hillary Clinton visits Little Rock. There's fighting in the Arkansas Supreme Court. And more.
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- Jack Wagoner answers: What are your thoughts on Sen. Jason Rapert's opposition to same-sex marriage?
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- 4:27
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Jack Wagoner, one of the lawyers who successfully challenged Arkansas's ban on same-sex marriage in state court, talks about marriage equality opponent Sen. Jason Rapert and his attempts to insert religion into the law.
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- Jack Wagoner answers: Why should the ban on same-sex marriage in Arkansas be ruled unconstitutional?
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- 2:34
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Jack Wagoner, one of the lawyers who successfully challenged Arkansas's ban on same-sex marriage in state court, explains with the U.S. Supreme Court's U.S. v. Windsor decision undermines Arkansas's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.
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- Today in Arkansas: Battle over future of gambling in Arkansas heats up
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- 3:07
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Arkansas Times Senior Editor Max Brantley talks about the biggest news in Arkansas on Friday, June 26: There's a lot of behind-the-scenes lobbying going on over the future of gambling in Arkansas, the Arkansas Supreme Court makes key rulings, and the city of Little Rock tries to raise private money for restrooms at the Big Dam Bridge. What happened to that big sales tax increase?
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- Today in Arkansas: Oaklawn lobbying hard against state lottery
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- 2:58
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Arkansas Times Senior Editor Max Brantley talks about the biggest news of the day on June 25, 2014: Lobbyists for Oaklawn are pressing state legislators to support a bill that would keep the state lottery from adding video monitor gambling. Johnny Rhoda, the 2nd District chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party, resigned after saying Hillary Clinton wouldn't be well received as a political candidate in Arkansas and would probably be shot at the state line. And more.
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- Today in Arkansas: pagans lose out in Beebe
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- 2:51
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Arkansas Times Senior Editor Max Brantley talks about the biggest news in Arkansas on June 24, 2014. The Arkansas General Assembly's (which will indeed meet for a special session; we recorded just before the announcement) plan to shore up public school employee insurance is short term. The ACLU asks a judge to life his stay on his decision to invalidate the state's voter ID law. The Human Rights Campaign asks Attorney General Eric Holder to guarantee that same-sex couples who were wed in Arkansas will receive federal benefits. The Beebe city council denies a pagan church the ability to set up a church in a residential area. And more.
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- Today in Arkansas: Will future elections sway Arkansas Supreme Court in marriage equality case?
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- 2:56
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Arkansas Times Senior Editor Max Brantley talks about the biggest news of the day: It looks like a the Arkansas state legislature will hold a special session to shore up the public school employee insurance fund. Will Arkansas Supreme Court justices be wary of overturning the state's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage because of political considerations? The New York Times slaps down Walmart for paying low wages. And the notice for bids for replacing the Broadway Bridge go out this week; bad news for downtown Little Rock.
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- Today in Arkansas: History won't remember Jason Rapert and Mike Huckabee favorably
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- 3:40
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Arkansas Times Senior Editor Max Brantley talks about Sen. Jason Rapert's resolution to endorse discrimination, Mike Huckabee's insane comparison of the drive to same-sex marriage to Nazi Germany, Mike Maggio in front of the the Ethics Commission and more.
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- Today in Arkansas: special legislative session coming?
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- 3:13
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Arkansas Times Senior Editor Max Brantley talks about talk of a special session to shore up public employee insurance, Asa Hutchinson departing from Republican orthodoxy on corporate welfare, French Hill opposing minimum wage proposals and more.
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- Today in Arkansas: We're No. 2...when it comes to guns vs. libraries and museums
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- 2:27
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Arkansas Times Senior Editor Max Brantley talks about the biggest news of the day, including a legislative committee meeting on the FOIA law, former school board member John Riggs thinks it's time to talk about the state taking over the LRSD, Burns Park plans to reopen the Rocket Slide and more. We know the sound is bad. We'll fix it next time!
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- Today in Arkansas: Hutchinson, Ross battle over minimum wage
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- 4:12
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Arkansas Times Senior Editor Max Brantley talks about Mike Ross and Asa Hutchinson and minimum wage, Tom Cotton's demeanor and voting record, the state legislature tinkering with the private option, a libertarian law firm goes after Arkansas's regulatory schemes and nutty legislative candidates.
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- Today in Arkansas: State politicians and Mike Huckabee fight against LGBT equality
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- 3:19
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Arkansas Times Senior Editor Max Brantley talks about President Obama's plan to extend employment discrimination protection to LGBT employees of federal contractors and subcontractors, the Razorback Foundation running a deficit, a haunting story of domestic violence in Arkansas and UALR's investigation into former baseball coach Scott Norwood.
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- Today in Arkansas: Sharp differences emerge in Arkansas governor's race
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- 3:52
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Arkansas Times Senior Editor Max Brantley talks about the biggest news in Arkansas on June 13: Mike Ross, Asa Hutchinson, Tom Cotton and Mark Pryor pitch to a group of Southern leaders; a controversy develops over a proposal to widen I-630; the group trying to get enough signatures to put marijuana legalization on the ballot has an uphill climb, and a Republican state legislative candidate plays the ignorance card to explain an ethics violation.
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- Today in Arkansas: Drugs, violence and rock 'n 'roll
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- 2:39
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Arkansas Times Senior Editor Max Brantley talks about Jason Woodring, the man charged as a domestic terrorism for damage he did the energy grid in and around Lonoke County; the need to start considering whether it may be time for the state to take over the Little Rock School District; Mike Ross' new jobs plans; new private option numbers, and the Waltons' bail out of Quest charter middle school.
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- Arkansas runoff election recap
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- 4:06
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Arkansas Times Senior Editor Max Brantley offers key takeaways from the June 10 primary runoff elections in Arkansas. Leslie Rutledge defeats David Sterling and outside money, and Scott Flippo gets enough anti-private option votes to take down Rep. John Burris. Is the private option expansion of health coverage in Arkansas doomed?
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- Today in Arkansas: Have you heard of the internet?
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- 2:57
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Arkansas Times Senior Editor Max Brantley talks about urban mining, the University of Arkansas offering an online-only degree in business administration, the teacher insurance crisis, Ronnie Floyd is elected pres of the Southern Baptist Convention, a judge orders the state to pay court costs for abortion law legal battles, Derek Fisher is named coach of NY Knicks and Ernie Dumas writes about Bowe Bergdahl.
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- Charlotte's Eats and Sweets: better than your grandma's pie
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- 2:23
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Eat Arkansas visits Charlotte Bowls at Charlotte's Eats and Sweets in Keo, Ark., to talk about her famous mile-high meringues and where she got her coconut pie recipe.
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- Today in Arkansas: Who likes guns the most?
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- 2:05
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Arkansas Times Senior Editor Max Brantley talks about the biggest new stories on June 9, 2014 in Arkansas: The runoff election for attorney general between David Sterling and Leslie Rutledge, guns in Arkansas and elsewhere, John Boozman returning to work and Hendrix's new president and Godzilla.
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- Today in Arkansas: Jason Rapert and the battle over booze in Faulkner County
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- 2:10
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Arkansas Times Senior Editor Max Brantley talks about the biggest new stories on June 6, 2014 in Arkansas: Walmart's future, the battle over alcohol sales in Faulkner County, UAMS's financial woes and school choice in Arkansas.
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- Today in Arkansas: UA athletic department rakes in revenue
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- 1:36
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Arkansas Times Senior Editor Max Brantley talks about the biggest new stories on June 5, 2014 in Arkansas: Strong storms sweep through Northeast Arkansas, a new USA Today survey ranks the University of Arkansas as one of the highest grossing athletic programs in the country, the state Sen. runoff in North Arkansas between Scott Flippo and Rep. John Burris gets crazy, a neighborhood group opposes a gas station at 3rd and Broadway and a state legislator speaks critically of Walmart.
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- Today in Arkansas: Walmart critics attack
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- 1:52
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Arkansas Times Senior Editor Max Brantley talks about the biggest new stories on June 4, 2014 in Arkansas: Walmart critics converge around the retail giant's annual meeting, the Arkansas attorney general approves a ballot measure that would decriminalize marijuana, the Little Rock Technology Park Authority offers Brent Birch the Tech Park Director position, developers are considering the old Brand House Furniture store site for a hotel and UAMS is looking for a new dean.
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- Today in Arkansas: Pryor thumps Cotton over jobs
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- 2:03
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Arkansas Times Senior Editor Max Brantley talks about the biggest new stories on June 3, 2014 in Arkansas: Mark Pryor takes Tom Cotton to task for voting against economic development, Arkansas tax revenue is down, Barbara Graves Intimate Fashions closes and Mara Leveritt releases "Dark Spell," a follow-up to "Devil's Knot."
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- Three things to know in Arkansas: What the carbon cap means for Arkansas
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- 2:57
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Arkansas Times Senior Editor Max Brantley talks about the biggest new stories on June 2, 2014 in Arkansas: The Obama administration's proposal to reduce coal emissions, the race to the bottom in the Republican primary runoff election between Leslie Rutledge and David Sterling and Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen's response to Sen. Jason Rapert's Sunday op-ed in the Democrat-Gazette.
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- More good news for marriage equality in Arkansas
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- 2:28
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Arkansas Times Senior Editor Max Brantley explains what Judge Chris Piazza's May 15 order means for same-sex marriage in Arkansas and where the legal fight goes from here.
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- Same-sex couples marry in Little Rock for the first time
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- 1:35
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- In the wake of Pulaski County Circuit Judge Chris Piazza invalidating Arkansas's ban on same-sex marriage, dozens of same-sex couples have received marriage licenses in Little Rock. The Arkansas Times' Gabe Gentry interviewed several of the soon-to-be newlyweds and captured the wedding of the first same-sex couple married in Pulaski County, Shelly Butler and Susan Barr, of Dallas.
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- Mara Leveritt answers: What's the case for cameras in the courtroom?
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- 3:16
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Mara Leveritt, investigative reporter and author of "Devil's Knot," "Dark Spell" and "The Boys on the Tracks," argues that all criminal trials should be recorded and made available to the public.
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- Mara Leveritt answers: Why does the West Memphis Three case matter?
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- 1:58
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Why is the West Memphis Three case important? Arkansas Times asks investigative reporter Mara Leveritt, author of "Devil's Knot" and Dark Spell."
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- "Devil's Knot" author Mara Leveritt answers: Why a feature film about the West Memphis Three case?
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- 3:10
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- After years of reporting, a book and four documentaries, what new can "Devil's Knot," a based-on-a-true-story feature film, tell us about the West Memphis Three case? Arkansas Times asks investigative reporter Mara Leveritt. The film "Devil's Knot," directed by Atom Egoyan and starring Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth, was based on her book of the same name.
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- Mara Leveritt answers: Could the West Memphis Three case happen today?
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- 1:57
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Were the circumstances surrounding the West Memphis murders so unique, that it couldn't happen today? Arkansas Times asks investigative reporter Mara Leveritt, author of "Devil's Knot" and "Dark Spell."
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- Mara Leveritt answers: If the West Memphis Three are innocent, who should be held accountable?
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- 2:53
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Should the state of Arkansas be held accountable for wrongfully convicting the West Memphis Three, Jason Baldwin, Damien Echols and Jessie Misskelley? Arkansas Times asks investigative reporter Mara Leveritt, author of "Devil's Knot" and "Dark Spell."
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- New poll identifies campaign issues that matter to Arkansans
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- 2:01
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Arkansas Times Senior Editor Max Brantley talks about the results of a new poll from Public Policy Polling released May 1 that puts Sen. Mark Pryor ahead of U.S. Rep. Tom Cotton in the Senate race, shows Arkansans overwhelming in support of a minimum wage increase and demonstrates some support for civil unions for same-sex couples within the state.
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- Lassis Inn, Little Rock's catfish king
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- 3:02
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Owner Elihue Washington, Jr. talks about the history of Lassis Inn, one of Arkansas's oldest (and best) restaurants in the latest Eat Arkansas video from the Arkansas Times. Also, an explanation of the restaurant's mysterious "no dancing" sign.
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- Peckerwolf performs in the 2014 Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase
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- 4:42
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Peckerwolf performs in the 2014 Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase
