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  • Is there life in Lincoln?

    Arkansas Blog

    What? Has Sen. Blanche Lincoln begun to run for re-election?

    She'll have a news conference today to announce an amendment to limit the deductibility of insurance executive salaries as a business expense to $400,000 each, down from $1 million. She claims this will save government $65 million a year.

    Earlier today, she' [...]

    Posted: December 04, 2009, 12:37pm EST
  • More layoffs in plane business

    Arkansas Blog

    This was strongly rumored during the last round of job cuts at the Hawker Beechcraft aircraft completion facility at Little Rock National Airport.

    Roby Brock at Talk Business says a statement is coming this evening from Dassault Falcon, another major aircraft facility at the airport, and he expects it to [...]

    Posted: December 04, 2009, 12:01pm EST
  • Fiscal Responsibility

    Blake's Think Tank

    Time and again we’ve heard Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln iterate that her concerns about health insurance reform involve two things: (1) expanding the role of government and (2) fiscal irresponsibility.

    The first is an interesting way of setting forth opposition to a “public option” whereby the government would offer its own [...]

    Posted: December 04, 2009, 11:11am EST
    by Blake
  • Arkansas Friday morning summary

    Lynch at Large

    Politico is reporting that Sen. Lincoln is among those who have submitted an amendment to pending health legislation that would effectively eliminate all state regulations concerning what insurance companies must cover. Lincoln also voted to keep Medicare cuts in current legislation while strongly denying Sen. John McCain robo-call allegations that [...]
    Posted: December 04, 2009, 11:00pm EST
    by patlynch
  • Court split on robbery case

    Arkansas Blog

    The state Supreme Court today upheld, on a 4-3 vote, a Pulaski County robbery conviction of Hutson Burks despite unanimous agreement that the prosecutor's office used testimony obtained improperly by promise of  reduction of a sentence already in effect for the critical witness. It sharply criticized the prosecuting attorney's office, which struck the deal, and [...]

    Posted: December 03, 2009, 3:44pm EST
  • REPUBLICANS CAN’T BE TRUSTED ON MEDICARE

    Lynch at Large

    MEDICARE CRED: Republicans Don’t Have Any more about “REPUBLICANS CAN’T BE TRUSTED ON MEDICARE“, posted with vodpod Washington D.C. – Americans United for Change fired back today at the national Republican Party’s smear campaign targeting Arkansas’ seniors with robocalls featuring Senator John McCain that falsely claim the health insurance reform bill [...]
    Posted: December 03, 2009, 2:31pm EST
    by patlynch

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