Blogs

SSTEWART

Facing the Music

Thursday’s Music

Giving you the music a day early: Jim Mize’s website contains a Billboard magazine article from 2002 about the Conway native’s musical beginnings. So why did Mize start playing? “I was tryin’ ...

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LCLARK

Site on Scene

Delivering Smiles

During a recent visit to Arkansas Children’s Hospital I was happy to deliver some mail to a few patients. I saw return addresses from Conway, AR. Portage, WI. Beaver Dam, WI. St. ...

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KWILLIAMS

The Conference Call

Shirley Sherrod: Special Comment

In the midst of Lebron moving to South Beach, the ongoing Epic Fail that is the BP oil spill, Lindsey Lohan going on vacation to prison, and Mel Gibson saying “FML” in ...

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THEPLAINCLOTHESMAN

The Plainclothesman

No, I meant to say Big Rock, Arkansas

….when the French explorers were sailing up the Arkansas River, Native Americans [Quapaws] told them of a massive green rock along the river…the explorers thought that it must be a massive jewel-encrusted ...

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SWATSON

Get Reel

I’m not lazy

Ok, so maybe I am. This post was actually stolen straight out of the July 7 issue. It’s the first in what I hope will be a continuing column of mine that ...

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JTRIPLETT

Moms at Work

Musical time warp

Everybody knows that when you’re the mother of small children you lose touch, to a certain degree, with the outside world. This was really brought home to me while I was browsing ...

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MTUCKER

The Hub

Stop commuters in state-owned vehicles?

According to data received by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the state of Arkansas owns 8,653 vehicles. Approximately 1,000 of the vehicles are used for commuting, according to the data from the state Department ...

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