Committee aims to toughen Arkansas ethics law Arkansas Times (blog) The Democrat-Gazette's annual article on legislative expense reimbursements is a good takeoff for what could be good news on the ethics front — a campaign for an initiated act to stiffen Arkansas ethics laws. The DG article noted that legislators, ...
Special Report: Bloomberg reloads in push for gun control Reuters "We have to face the fact that both Democrats and Republicans have for a while viewed this as the third rail of American politics," said John Feinblatt, who helps run MAIG as Bloomberg's chief advisor for policy and strategic planning.
State lawmakers: Romney's race to lose Log Cabin Democrat A slugfest in prime time would be the most compelling political theater in recent history. Probably have to go back to a vice president shooting a guy in the face to equal it. Sen. Steve Harrelson, Democrat of Texarkana, agreed that Romney will likely ...
Invoking GOP hysteria part of Obama's strategy The Mercury Even after the election, his inaugural address called for “an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas that for far too long have strangled our politics.” Was it really possible, I wondered, that Obama had ...
Brummett: Obama a problem for Arkansas Democrats The City Wire He can be reached at roby [at] talkbusiness [dot] net Arkansas Democrat-Gazette political columnist John Brummett was our guest on this week's edition of Talk Business to discuss national and state politics. Brummett contends that Obama will be beaten ...
How the GOP Is Resegregating the South The Nation. Before 2010, Democrats controlled five Statehouses (in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina) and one chamber in two (Kentucky and Virginia). Two years later, Republicans control every Southern Statehouse except the Arkansas...
redistricting negotiators must meet deadline Corpus Christi Caller Times The court's maps resembled the Legislature's only on the outermost edges — ie, the ones that separate Texas from Arkansas, Oklahoma, Mexico, New Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico. Everything in between, including Texas and US House district boundaries in ...
Komen Decision: Race, Class, Abortion and Republicans Politic365 Some conservatives simply use African Americans as a political device when convenient. Need a janitor at a middle school? Newt has a plan. Other than changing the subject to Barack Obama what is the specific conservative policy on poverty?
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