Rep. Jim Nickels' proposed HB 1013, which would allow the Contractor's Licensing Board to impose sanctions on any contractor who, following proper notice and a hearing, "is found by the Contractors Licensing Board to knowingly employ workers without ...
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Bill Name: AN ACT TO IMPROVE THE SAFETY OF HIGHWAYS AND ROADS BY PROHIBITING WIRELESS TELEPHONE USE IN SCHOOL ZONES
Sponsor: Fred Allen (D-33), 501-225-4979, FredAllen99@comcast.net
Purpose: To pr...
Random bits of jetsom and flotsam from the wreckage of the Good Ship HB 1053:
Jason Tolbert has video of a post-failure David Meeks discussing what happened. Between the obvious dry mouth and the stammering, one almost loses the message, which i...
Irony (i·ro·ny), –noun
1. the humorous or mildly sarcastic use of words to imply the opposite of what they normally mean
2. an instance of this, used to draw attention to some incongruity or irrationality
3. incongruity between what is expected to...
As first noted by Jason Tolbert, Rep. Andy Mayberry (R-27) plans to propose a law, the "Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act," which would ban all abortions after 20 weeks' gestation based on certain scientific studies suggesting that this is the...
Programming note: Given the number of bills being filed, the amount of time I actually have to do reviews of such things, and the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow, it's pretty clear that I won't be able to get through every bill. With that i...
Singing baritone for our D-G-weekend-letter quartet is this missive from Julia Randle of Jacksonville, AR.
Everything that had lips had something to say about Michael Vick.
Which you would all know if you were tuned in to the random opinions of bon...
So...uh...Sunday's paper? There weren't actually any terrible letters to the editor.
I know!
Seriously, I'm as shocked as you are.
In place of a Sunday letter, I'll just link to the November 11, 2010, Adventures in Idiocy that I wrote.
While, technically, there had to be a "worst" letter to the editor from Saturday's Democrat-Gazette, none was especially egregious. So, rather than force things, I decided to give equal time to the bright spots in an otherwise dismal paper. With th...