How Guiliani will help elect the Democrat
Rudy Giuliani’s presidential candidacy is the best thing that will happen for the Democratic candidates this year. He’s going to lose. Yes, I know he’s the Republican frontrunner in some polls, but Howard Dean was the frontrunner for a while in the last contested presidential primary season.
On his way […]

Budgetary myths and realities 
Just as the administration’s more optimistic assessment on Iraq is open to serious question, so is the proposed budget for fiscal year 2008, with its projected deficit of $ 240 billion. There’s not much in the proposal that is realistic or achievable, and balancing the budget in the coming years is not […]

The People Rule.
Not only do Arkansas voters get what they so clearly want, they’re getting some extra added bonuses. And in this case some of the extras are actually beneficial to just plain folks, not special interests.
Oh, they’ll get their slice of the pie, as usual. Sales tax on manufacturers’ natural gas and electricity purchases […]

UP  Mike Beebe - He’s getting the grocery tax reduced. Now, if he gets school facilities paid for and the state out of court on education, and if we land that Toyota plant, well, I suppose his second month in the Governor’s Mansion is too soon to begin pondering his place in history. We can […]

From the House side;
-House Joint Resolution 1001, by Rep. Rick Saunders, D-Hot Springs, to increase the terms of county officials from two years to four years.
-HJR 1003, by Rep. Roy Ragland, R-Marshall, to abolish the office of constable.
-HJR 1004, by Rep. Eric Harris, R-Lowell, to require the General Assembly to meet in session every year […]