Dr. Patricia Youngdahl was an early exponent of women’s rights, including an equal voice in politics and in both major political parties.
Ernest Dumas
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We can blame one of the clumsiest politicians in Arkansas history for next week’s special session
Chalk up the messy and expensive flap over an appropriation for Game and Fish to the naïveté and perhaps outright ignorance of one the great buffoons of Arkansas history, Gov. J. Marion Futrell.
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Secret tapes, a millionaire liquor dealer, Hillary Rodham and the Arkansas Times’ first big scoop
In celebration of the Arkansas Times’ 50th anniversary, Ernie Dumas reflects on the Hastings scandal, the seamy, labyrinthian tale that landed on the cover of the Arkansas Times’ July 1978 issue.
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Former U.S. senator and Arkansas governor David Pryor is dead at 89
Former president Bill Clinton said he and Hillary were deeply saddened by the death of their friend and collaborator, who was always “honest, compassionate and full of common sense.”
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Bill Whitworth, legendary editor at The New Yorker and The Atlantic, dies at 87
William A. “Bill” Whitworth, who followed Charles “Buddy” Portis, his pal and seatmate in the newsroom of the Arkansas Gazette, to New York City and then to the pinnacle of the magazine publishing world, died Friday.
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Arkansas legal legend Jack Holt Jr. dies at age 93
Jack Holt Jr., the chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court for ten years who along with three other lawyers brought the landmark lawsuits against the Arkansas penitentiary that caused the entire state prison system to be declared unconstitutional, died Sunday at his home off Highway 10 west of Little Rock.
Posted inHistory
The ‘Grand Goof’ Affair
Issues surrounding the financing of the Grand Gulf Nuclear Generating Station convulsed politics in Arkansas for the last two decades of the 20th century and continued to create legal controversy into 2023 over the financial harm the giant plant did to homeowners and other power users in Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana.
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Mr. Gazette: The story of Sharpe Dunaway
Sharpe Dunaway may be the most famous traveling salesman in Arkansas history, a distinction only partly due to his sidelines: politics, writing and state promotion.
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Trump conspiracies
The former president might be history, but the hoaxes he promoted won’t die easily.
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The Huckabee legacy
Sarah Huckabee Sanders has given few hints how she’ll govern if elected. Looking at her father’s time as governor might provide a clue.