This is the time of year when I really miss writing a movie blog. Maybe I gave the gig up a little too early over at the Arkansas Times‘ Web site. Oh well, that ship has sailed. Still, from time to time, I’ll write about movies in this space. Today [...]
Right-of-center blogaholic Jason Tolbert resigned his post as Arkansas coordinator for Mike Huckabee’s political action committee today. Mr. Tolbert gives us a little insight into his rationale on his blog, “The Tolbert Report,” and notes that the events surrounding Maurice Clemmons played a role.
It’s got to be a tough [...]
I frequently link blogger Jason Tolbert here for the simple reason that the hobbyist journalist covers an awful lot of political ground, usually with camera running. He does real reporting (often -- I admit with some embarrassment -- following up questions raised here with the actual answers.)
He's a Republican and a past campaigner' [...]
Just a friendly reminder to blogger Jason Tolbert and everyone else who likes Sarah Palin that she will be in Fayetteville, Arkansas on December 3rd signing copies of her book at Sam’s Club. The event begins at 11 a.m.
I received this e-mail from a Republican friend of mine regarding the [...]
Beginning today, bloggers, Twitterers, and others who write online reviews or endorse products using new media must disclose it when they receive free merchandise or payment for writing about an item. The guidelines update the FTC’s 1980 guide addressing the use of testimonials in advertising, remapping [...]
If you have ever thought to yourself, “Man, I would love to go watch Michael Gravel have a serious debate with Ron Paul,” then you - one probably read this blog several times a day and - two you are in for a major treat tonight in [...]
Blogging machine Jason Tolbert has a good post over at The Tolbert Report touching on Republican Senate hopeful Conrad Reynolds’ plans for financing his 2010 campaign. Reynolds, like many of the Republican hopefuls, has been slow off the mark in raising money for the race. As of the [...]
Over the weekend speculation grew that Kim Hanke of Hanke Brothers was considering jumping into the race for Lieutenant Governor as a Republican. The news first broke on twitter from Bradley Phillips and then spread to the Arkansas Blog with Max Brantley posting…
Kim Hanke [...]
Arkansas to the Cotton Bowl, or better, with a win over LSU tonight?
Talk about that or whatever else moves you right here. Holiday blogging for me still.
Tweets of the day include:
* Kim Hanke has reportedly revived his long-standing interest in breaking into political life with a run for lt. gov. (Republican; he once [...]
Some serious entries follow on the blog, but I'll be busy like many others today cooking for family and friends.
An interesting article in the NY Times shows how regional differences in taste can be tracked by web traffic on a popular recipe site. The big action' [...]
Today is sort of a slow news day in the lull before Thanksgiving so I thought I would take the opportunity to do what most bloggers do and try to make much ado about nothing by highlighting some interesting twitter conversations from last night.
There were several interesting [...]
Blog reader "Couldn't be Better" says he believes this poll result indicates that people who self-identify as Christian on polls (typically majorities in most U.S. polling) do so to say what is expected, rather than as an indicator of beliefs:
More Americans believe a statement about giving "justice to the' [...]
Brummett blogs about calls Arkansans got last night from live callers describing the awfulness of the Harry Reid-Nancy Pelosi health legislation and then asking the call recipients if they opposed it or not. Push polling taken to a new low, Brummett figures.
Another anecdote on this dishonest tactic, paid by either rich [...]
Wendell Potter, a former CIGNA insurance executive who's traveling the country to talk about what's wrong with the health insurance system, visited Little Rock Monday.
He gave an interview to the liberal Blue Arkansas blog.
[...]No, wait. Make that "The Rising," a series on the Washington Post's political blog about rising politicians that most don't know but should.
Today it's Gov. Mike Beebe, Arkansas emperor for life but for term limits. (Could we repeal them?)
While Beebe seems to have no interest in national office (and, unlike' [...]
It's vibrant in NW Ark.
* A new Rogers, Ark. blog is up and running. Top item currently is about a proposal to prohibit use of cell phones in school zones. How about everywhere in traffic?
* Thanks to Ozarks Unbound, I learned about The Dogood Letters. It's been [...]
I forgot to open the line.
I went to a party for former Bill Clinton staffers tonight. Saw, among many blog readers, Charles Eddie Smith.
Drove past teabaggers (40 or so?) with candles outside Blanche Lincoln's office. As a Democratic employee of a.g. McDaniel noted about the day, you've got Republicans fighting like' [...]
Rock Candy, our entertainment blog, has details on cancellation of Billy Joel/Elton John concert at Verizon Arena.
Says here that FBI is taking a look at a cop's Tasering of an Ozark girl, 10, who refused to take a shower.
Jordan Johnson tweets and twitpics that students at the Clinton School' [...]
Matt Gross, who writes the Frugal Traveler blog for the New York Times, recounts some of his travel souvenirs, including a Ping Pong ball gun picked up at an Arkansas convenience store.
It’s carved wood, and uses a rubber band and clothespin as a firing mechanism. “Arkansas: [...]
The Clinton Library fifth anniversary events remind me that the Arkansas Blog is just a few days older. We got started in October 2004 (I can't pin down the precise date) and Warwick Sabin and I were up and running for library opening events. The blog busily tracked' [...]
I broke a little piece of news as I was departing Little Rock National Airport on my recent vacation. I sent in a blog note (courtesy of the airport's free wireless) that American Airlines was planning a switch to MD 80 full-sized jets for four flights a day to Dallas. The daily newspaper followed' [...]
The Arkansas blogosphere has been chatty about a new Public Policy Polling poll on the Arkansas Second Congressional District race involving Democratic Party incumbent Vic Snyder. The poll shows Mr. Snyder with an approval rating of forty-two percent. Forty-six percent of second district voters disapprove of his performance.
Not unlike [...]
It was just a matter of time before the unflattering poll numbers of Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln caught the attention of national political pundits. Chris Cillizza of The Washington Post’s The Fix blog wrote on Friday,
Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D) is getting squeezed between the demands of national liberals who [...]
Dylan Ratigan, host of Morning Meeting on MSNBC and a former host on CNBC, has been caught using photoshopped photos of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, according to the blog TVNewser. I wonder if he's been taking tips from Sean Hannity's staff? [...]
It's a very slow day. But the New York Times breaks through with a feature on the sudden popularity of the French bulldog in Astoria, Queens. They're quiet, indolent, small and amusing. Perfect for apartment life.
Carp at this frivolity if you will. My blog, my dog' [...]
I've commented before about the many sharp and newsy blogs covering Fayetteville and points north in the golden Northwest.
One is the Fayettevillage Voice, writing here about a four-way race that has developed for circuit judge and the difficulty in learning anything useful about a judicial candidate's political outlook because of limits [...]
Roby Brock has a report on an undisclosed number of additional layoffs at the Hawker Beechcraft plant at the Little Rock airport. Two blog readers with friends on the workforce there says the number is sizable, perhaps 175 of a remaining work force of more than 400. The private plane facility [...]
Little Rock writer Kevin Brockmeier is featured today on Paper Cuts, the New York Times' book blog, with a Ben Krain photo.
Among others, he talks about how he gets underway:
I can tell you that I never begin working on a story until I have a title' [...]
