Arkansas Blog

Colin Powell, shakedown artist.  
 
 
 
 

Columnist Steve Lopez in the LA Times writes about the haves and have nots and the pressure put by illegals on wages at the low end of the scale.

Sources at both the Clinton School and public relations firm CJRW have confirmed that Skip Rutherford will be the next dean of the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service.

This just in: The first pediatric liver transplant in Arkansas was performed last Friday and the patient went home Tuesday.

Jimmie Lou Fisher was admitted to St. Vincent Infirmary this morning after suffering an apparent stroke.

We have the AEA endorsements that several readers mentioned yesterday. Beebe, Hathorn, Suskie, Daniels and Campbell in the statewide races.

We ran into a PR guy on the street who passes along word of a visit to LR in May by Tiger Woods.

Thanks to the Blog readers who chipped in during my stint on KUAR’s beg-a-thon this morning. I paid my promised dues by credit card.

In an effort to improve this blog, we have updated our software, and this is our new location.

We hear University of Arkansas System officials will meet today to select David Pryor’s successor as dean of the Clinton School of Public Service.