State of Arkansas
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Human rights Worst person in the world: Sen. Eddie Joe Williams
WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: blank. I can marry my_____. Sen. Eddie Joe Williams.Time Makes me see RED to dust off the old Olbermann Does it really make Eddie Joe gimmick on the day's worst Williams see RED to gaze upon newsmaker. same sex couples in committed I ask for your help in relationships some married nominations for worst person thanks to laws in more in the world, based on enlightened states? Does it reactions to President make him see RED to see them Obama's declaration of love and raise children? Does support for same-sex marriage. it make him see RED to see Mitt Romney, who often such loving couples afforded stumbles on such occasions, tax, legal, estate, medical was surprisingly moderate. He and other benefits given commented on the sensitivity heterosexual couples? Does of the issue for many people. the very sight of a gay He stood by his belief that person make him see RED? Does marriage is an institution Dick Cheny make him see RED? for one man and one woman, It is one thing for Eddie Joe but he indicated sympathy for Williams to hold to his extending certain legal belief that marriage of two protections and benefits to people of the same sex is unmarried partners. Sometimes, contrary to his faith. It is a touch of decency manages to another for him to equate break through that icy veneer. loving family people with On the other hand, there's humans screwing dogs. That Sen. Eddie Joe Williams of such couples endure and Cabot, who is leading the thrive is a miracle in the sweepstakes for worst person face of bigotry Eddie Joe in the world in Arkansas. He Williams couldn't imagine wrote on Twitter: unless he gave himself a The president supports same truly searching look in the sex marriage.... Question..... mirror. Some might prefer a what's next? U fill in the dog, come to think of it.
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Audit finds no indications of fraud at closed child care operation
By Rob Moritz for work they did in January, Arkansas News Bureau and that the Office of LITTLE ROCK — A state audit Inspector General in the of a financially troubled federal Department of Health Russellville nonprofit that and Human Services is earlier this year investigating the nonprofit’s relinquished government financial problems. funded child care operations In late January, CDI’s board did not find any indications of directors fired Executive of fraudulent activity, Director JoAnn Williams. according to a draft of the Fiscal Officer Lisa Barber audit obtained by the later resigned. Arkansas News Bureau. The nonprofit, which provided The audit did find that Child child care services to more Development Inc. overextended than 2,300 children at 30 itself financially after centers in 12 counties, receiving federal stimulus closed its doors Jan. 31, the funds and failed to reduce last day of the fiscal year expenses accordingly when the for the federally funded Head federal funding stopped. Start program. It reopened The audit found that during the next day but eventually CDI’s last year of operation relinquished the federal and — Feb. 1, 2011 to Jan. 31, state grant funding it 2012 — expenses exceeded received to operate the revenues by $582,062. centers. During that period, stimulus According to the state audit, money decreased $1.3 million 72 percent of the funding was while expenses only decreased federal and 15 percent state. $753,165, according to the The rest was listed as in- draft copy of the audit, kind matching. which was sent to members of Denver-based Community the CDI board for comment. Development Institute took The audit is to be presented over both the preschool Friday to the Legislative programs Feb.13, and a week Joint Auditing Committee. later, a spokesman for the “Common business practices, federal Department of Health it sounds like, were not and Human Services said a incorporated by people who federal investigation had should have known better,” begun. said Rep. Terry Rice, R- Jim Smith, attorney for the Waldron, who along with Rep. nonprofits board of directors, Jon Eubanks, R-Paris, did not immediately return a requested the audit in late telephone call seeking February. comment Tuesday. Rice said Tuesday he had not In late February, eight seen the report, but had former employees of Child heard that it was completed. Development Inc. filed a “I’m sure there will be more federal lawsuit against their discussion,” Rice said, former employer alleging they noting that lawsuits have were not paid for work they been filed by former performed dating back to employees who were not paid January.
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Warren Stephens goes liberal
UNLIKELY LIBERAL: Warren forestall another crisis like Stephens goes Rooseveltian on the one in 2008 that sank us big banks. into the current malaise, the Ernie Dumas writes this week big banks are bigger than about financier Warren ever. He suggested forcing Stephens' op-ed in the Wall banks to divest if they Street Journal — a call to exceeded 5 percent of the revive something like the nations deposits (Dodd-Frank bank regulatory legislation says 10 percent and it is not of the Roosevelt era, the airtight) and restoring Glass- Glass Steagall Act, that Steagalls separation of generally only liberals love. commercial and investment Dumas notes that this puts banking. Stephens, no liberal The Arkansas financier could generally, squarely in the have a peeve at Bank of camp of long-time Arkansas America and others that can Gazette business writer and poach on his turf with the editorialist, Leland Duvall, protected assets of their the "sage of Moreland." depositors, but I do not The full column follows: credit him with guile. He BY ERNEST DUMAS sounds too much like Duvall. This is not quite on the It is time we rid ourselves plane of Republican Governor of banks that are too big to Frank White suggesting in fail, he wrote. The threat 1982 that Arkansas socialize that these mammoth financial the private power industry, institutions represent to our but it is about as head economy is too great. Size turning. Warren A. Stephens, and scale are not the the head of Arkansass and the advantages they were thought regions most formidable to be. In fact, they are the financial house, penned an op- problem. He owned up to ed editorial in the Wall believing the opposite only a Street Journal the other day few years ago when Stephens suggesting that the family enterprises eagerly government crack down on the participated in the expansion big banks like Franklin D. of banking from state to Roosevelt did. regional to national, which Unlike his Uncle Witt, had once been barred by Glass- Stephens would never utter a Steagall. paean to FDR, and he did not Perhaps the worlds of finance even mention Roosevelt or the and politics will heed this New Deal, but he said voice from the Arkansas Congress made a terrible wilderness when it didnt the mistake in scrapping the rustic warnings of Duvall. Glass-Steagall Act, the 1933 After all, Stephens has banking law adopted months access periodically to the into Roosevelts first term as editorial columns of the Wall an antidote to the financial Street Journal and owns an crash of 1929 and the Great MBA. Duvalls highest pedigree Depression and that it should was his eighth- grade report embrace something like that card at Moreland grammar law again to avoid another school, and the easternmost crash and the inevitable reach of his words was sorrows that will follow. Armorel. Stephenss notion that banks When Congress first chipped should not be permitted to away at Glass-Steagall in become too big to fail, in 1980 to liberate savings and the current parlance, is not loan associations and Reagan original or radical, but administration regulators those who share it tend to be gave the thrifts forbearance scarce and liberal. He joins to go out and seek greater Sherrod Brown of Ohio, about fortunes than could be had in the last of the real liberals the dull home-mortgage trade, in the U.S. Senate, at times Duvall wrote that it would Paul Volcker, the aging pretty much doom the thrifts. former Fed chairman under Arkansass big thrifts soon Jimmy Carter, and a few leaped into the booming others. Dallas real-estate market and, Stephens is not a liberal. of course, went down with it. Even now, he is ponying up Most of the nations S&Ls large sums of money for the collapsed, and with the help campaigns of Republicans who of thrift bailouts from the are bent on the opposite Reagan and Bush I course, undoing even the administrations the taxpayers anemic banking reforms of the eventually took a $124 Obama administration and billion hit. turning the bankers loose When Reagans nominee for the once again to awaken the Supreme Court, Robert Bork, slumbering American economic wrote an appeals court order engine. that permitted the National The CEO of Stephens Inc. has Westminster Bank in never professed liberal or Washington to offer brokerage populist tendencies, or services and investment demonstrated any, but with a advice, forbidden by Glass- few rustic flourishes his WSJ Steagall, Duvall wrote that op- ed would read like it had the gates had been opened and been written by the wisest the end would not be pretty. economic sage of the last Reagans appointees to the Fed century, Leland Duvall, the Board had overridden the author of Morelands Laws of chairman, Volcker, and Economic Behavior. authorized Westminster to Duvall, who wrote for the poach on the brokerage Arkansas Gazette for 45 years, business. (Mitt Romney, you believed that the finest will recall, says that when exhibition of legislative he becomes president Bork genius, ever, was the Banking will be his oracle on all Act of 1933 (Glass Steagall), matters regarding justice.) which separated commercial Duvall began an editorial a and investment banks and short while later: The erected a scheme of rules for difference between the pilot what banks and other lending of a four-wheel-drive pickup and investment institutions or Jeep and the conventional could do to make money motorist is that the daring without unduly risking their driver gets stuck in deeper customers assets. The swamps. In a way, the rule periodic financial collapses holds and depressions that had true in the financial marked the growth of the community, where bankers are American republic from 1837 tempted to park their until 1929 vanished, lending Cadillacs and Continentals, institutions flourished after mount their Land Rovers, and the recovery, and the country venture into the high-risk grew almost seamlessly for 45 fens and marshlands that yearsuntil restive bankers currently are the province of persuaded Washington to securities dealers, managers remove the fetters and let of mutual funds, and other them show once again what free-wheelers. they could do. An MBA and the Wall Street Stephens wrote that while the Journal require a more Dodd-Frank financial reform elegant metaphor but Stephens bill in 2010 sought to limit and Duvall found the same the size of banks to conclusion.
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Music RIP Michael Burks
Arkansas blues legend Michael Music Award for Best Burks died on Sunday of an Guitarist. apparent heart attack. Born in Milwaukee in 1957, According to a statement Burks grew up immersed in the released by his record label blues, and learned to play Alligator Records, he guitar at an early age. His collapsed at the Hartsfield- family moved to Camden, Jackson Atlanta International Arkansas in the early 1970s. Airport after returning from There, Burks and his siblings a tour of Europe. He was 54. helped their father build the Burks was born in Milwaukee, Bradley Ferry Country Club — but moved to Camden as a teen, a 300-seat juke joint. By where he helped his father this time Michael was build the Bradly Ferry fronting his own band as well Country Club, a juke joint as backing several of the where he developed his blues blues and R&B greats that chops. passed through town. Burks Burks was a regular at left music to raise a family Central Arkansas clubs. He and returned to performing was scheduled to return to blues in the 1990s. Stickyz on June 2. After self-releasing his See a bio, courtesy of first CD in 1997, Burks Alligator Records on the jump. signed with Chicago's Michael "Iron Man" Burks Alligator Records in 2001 and earned his moniker by his released three critically hours-long, intensely acclaimed albums. GuitarOne physical performances, named his debut album, Make fearsome guitar attack, and It Rain, one of the Top 200 tough, smoky vocals. He also greatest guitar recordings of earned it by the thousands of all time. He has toured the miles he personally logged world, headlining blues behind the wheel of his festivals, concert halls and touring van. Burks was a true clubs. His status as an modern blues hero whose music Arkansas musical hero was was driven by an intense, confirmed by his receipt of blue collar work ethic that the prestigious Sonny Payne had won him well-deserved Award for Blues Excellence in national and international 2006, presented by the Delta recognition. His instantly Cultural Center, and by his identifiable guitar sound and multiple headlining his live charisma earned him appearances at The Arkansas four Blues Music Award Blues & Heritage Festival. nominations. He won the 2004 Burks had just finished Living Blues magazine recording his fourth Critics' Award for Best Alligator CD, which is due Guitarist. Burks received a for release at the end of nomination for the 2012 Blues July 2012.
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Food Trucks Food truck court expands on South University
New banners at University people can enjoy a meal in Market the open air, fostering a For Pastor Mark DeYmaz and sense of community through the Mosaic Church, the food one of our oldest activities: truck court on the corner of sharing a meal. As sign of South University Avenue and bigger and better things to Colonel Glenn Road was always come, the first banners more than just a gathering advertising the Market were place for food vendors; it put up just this week, a was always meant as a symbolic gesture that signals gathering place for a Mosaic's commitment to urban community. In the short time renewal in South Little Rock. that the University Market at Future plans for the 4Corners has been open, University Market area developing that sense of include access to electricity community has been slow but for the trucks so that noise steady with the addition of from the generators now being new trucks, the development used for power can be of a loyal following on eliminated, the creation of social media sites like more green space in what is Facebook and Twitter and by now a seemingly endless good old-fashioned word of expanse of asphalt and a mouth from the people who continued effort to turn the work and go to school in the former K-Mart building into a University District. home for both the Mosaic On May 1, the University Church and office space for Market took a large step in non-profit organizations. realizing the dream of I've been inspired by the becoming a place where people dedication and resilience of from the neighborhood could the folks behind the gather together to eat and University Market, and if the fellowship when the city grassroots urban renewal granted permission to install along South Main Street has tables and chairs in the taught us anything, it's that former K-Mart parking lot sometimes, all it takes is that has become home to many the dedication of people who of Little Rock's food trucks. live and work in a With this new development, neighborhood to make a the Market can transition difference and in the case from being a place where of the Market, to get people merely pass through to something good to eat while get their food and leave for you're at it. elsewhere to a place where
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Three Democrats in primary for 1st Congressional District
By Rob Moritz Prosecutor Scott Ellington, Arkansas News Bureau state Rep. Clark Hall and LITTLE ROCK — A prosecutor, a Arkansas State University state House member and an Professor Gary Latanich will economics professor face each face incumbent Republican other in the May 22 Rick Crawford in the November Democratic primary in the 1st general election.
Congressional District. Scott Ellington The primary winner among
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What’s going on Sunday To-Do: Cinco de Mayo Fiesta
LULAC Little Rock sponsors a become a celebration of Cinco de Mayo Celebration Mexican culture and, along Saturday at Clear Channel with St. Patrick's Day, one Metroplex. of our boozier holidays. CINCO DE MAYO FIESTA But of course, there's much Noon. Clear Channel Metroplex. more to it than Modelo and $10. margaritas. And you can Despite what that Corona- experience it at this Cinco soaked dude told you last de Mayo Fiesta, sponsored by year at that Cinco de Mayo LULAC Little Rock (Times patio rager, May 5 is not sister publication El Latino Mexican Independence Day. is also a sponsor). There That'd be Sept. 16. Cinco de will be Mexican music, Mayo commemorates El Dia de dancing, food trucks and la Batalla de Pueblo, a date festivities, including in 1862 when Mexican forces performances from Chicos at Puebla defeated an army of Style, Banda F5, Mariachi French occupiers. America and the Folkloric In Mexico, Cinco de Mayo is Ballet Reflejos de Mexico. mostly a regional celebration, Children get in free, and a big in the state of Puebla, portion of the proceeds will and not so much elsewhere. In go toward the Patricia the States, the holiday has Guardado UALR Scholarship.
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Week in Review Podcast The Resignation Edition
Joyce Elliott's resignation new potatoes and I talk from her post leading the skateboarding. Central Little Rock Promise Download. Neighborhood, Democrat- Subscribe via iTunes. Gazette Editor Griffin Subscribe via RSS. Smith's sudden and mysterious playpausestopmuteunmutemax resignation, the latest volume questions about a lottery The Resignation Edition ticket that's subject of a Update Required lawsuit and 20 years of the To play the media you will tabloid edition of the need to either update your Arkansas Times are covered browser to a recent version this week. Plus, Max endorses or update your Flash plugin.
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Random Friday Thoughts for May 4, 2012
After somehow gaining over 20 case. So, I penned my pounds from October to March thoughts and opinions on the (boo me), I decided to begin subject and then braced April dedicated to reclaiming myself for the fallout. When my body. I’ve been working the article hit the out 4-6 times a week. Some newsstands, I did receive workouts are cardio, some are lots of feedback—the most, in strength/toning. I’ve added fact, I’ve ever received for milk back into my diet and a column to date. All of it I’ve reduce the amount of was positive. Some readers junk I consume. As a result, went as far as to thank me after a solid month, I’ve for articulating their lost no weight. I’ve also sentiments. The responses gained no weight. But the boosted my ego so much, I best part is, I’m down a actually thought about total of nine inches (yay me)! becoming a political writer. Next month, according to the Then the swelling in my head experts, I should also see a went back down and I began lower number on my scale. writing more lifestyles Can’t wait for next month! content. My children’s book page on Micki Bare, mother of three, Facebook hosted its first wife, writer and web content giveaway this week in manager & strategist, is the anticipation of Art May-Ham. author of Thurston T. Turtle It was eye-opening to me how Moves to Hubbleville, Sept difficult it is to give away 2010 and Thurston T. Turtle freebies. We did finally and the Legend of the garner enough entries to give Lemonade, March 2012 CYPRESS away all three gift imprint of RoseHeart certificates. Hopefully I’ve Publishing. learned enough to make the http://roseheartbooks. next giveaway an even bigger com/micki.html success. LIKE Thurston T. Turtle on Amendment One is a hot-button Facebook issue in N.C. right now. I COMING in 2013 from CYPRESS: couldn’t shake the calling, Thurston T. Turtle and the if you will, to write about Precarious Puppy it in my column. Even though Visit Micki’s website: I’m not a political writer, http://www.inspiredscribe.com there are times we are all Follow Micki on Twitter: moved by political events in @TurtleAuthor our country, as should be the
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Arkansas Lottery Fired clerks say they’re taking fall on lottery probe
The Arkansas Lottery guys and that they play the scratchoff fiasco has a lottery — and lose — like thickening plot. everyone else. Fox 16 reports on an "It's a cover up," said interview with two clerks Clarence Walker. "They're fired from a Little Rock trying to put it on us so the convenience store after a Lottery Commission will be in complaint to the Little Rock the clear." police over sales of $20 The Walker brothers say the tickets that had been whole situation would be tampered with, apparently by cleared up if someone would someone attempting to find just take a look at the winners. The allegation in a security tapes from inside lawsuit is that the store the Raceway. However, when sold losers to unsuspecting Fox16 asked to take a look, customers. the store clerks said The clerks say they are fall absolutely not.
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