Marc Ambinder at the Atlantic picks up on a bit of political back-peddling involving our very own Sen. Gilbert Baker.
One day after National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman John Cornyn promised that his group wouldn't play in Republican primaries, a Republican Senate candidate in Arkansas is preparing for a' [...]
The U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce has released a districty-by-district analysis of the impact of the Affordable Health Care for America Act (or H.R. 3962). The results are incredibly interesting to look at. Take Rep. Mike Ross' 4th Congressional District. According to the assessment, the house health' [...]
Sen. Blanche Lincoln held a conference call with reporters late this morning. Most questions revolved around health care reform although the senator did spend a good deal of time talking about climate change. More about that on the jump.
On health care, Lincoln stressed the importance of being more efficient with [...]
From David Koon: The murder trial of Curtis Vance in the slaying of KATV news anchor Anne Pressly continued this morning with testimony by LRPD crime scene specialist Stuart Bartlett, who showed the jury grisly photographs taken at Pressly's home Oct. 20, 2008, the day of the slaying. Bartlett was one' [...]
But don't take my word for it. Ask the Congressional Budget Office. The CBO says the bill would only extend coverage to 3 million people by 2019, leaving 52 million uninsured by the same year. It would, however, reduce insurance premium costs. The Democrats' bill, by contrast, would extend coverage [...]
Sen. Tracy Steele (D-North Little Rock) announced that he will challenge Green-turned-Democrat Richard Carroll in the Democratic primary for the House seat in District 39. It's an office Steele has held before. Before being elected to the State Senate in 2002, Steele served two terms as a representative for District [...]
LRPD officers surrounded a house and arrested an armed burglary suspect Wednesday after he jumped from a second-floor window trying to escape. Police were called by a witness who'd seen the suspect, Miles Williams, 22, kick in a carport door to get in a house in the Kingwood neighborhood. The suspect, who police said' [...]
While Blanche Lincoln's vulnerability in the 2010 Senate election has been covered like the dew in the press, most of Arkansas isn't listening, the University of Arkansas's 2009 Arkansas Poll, released today, says.
"While a few of us are making a lot of noise already about the 2010 U.S. Senate contest, the reality is' [...]
E.J. Dionne Jr. offers some perspective on Tuesday's elections. Democrats should take warning, he says, and President Obama needs to use his much-celebrated grass-roots political organization to start making people feel hopeful again. But the night's big loser?
the national conservative political machine -- the wealthy tax-cutters at the Club for [...]
at the state legislature yesterday. For all you open-government buffs, the House Management Committee decided to stream all House proceedings on the internet starting in February of 2010. It will be interesting to see how that plays out logistically. Roby Brock has more at Talk Business. Also, Brock notes [...]
