I suppose it says something about this blogger's ego that my first thought when I saw David Meeks's prefiled HB 1053, was Meeks had noticed that I wasn't posting much of late and felt that he should give me something to write about. I mean, it'...
See here for explanation of what we're doing.
Bill Name: An Act To Make It A Felony To Exceed The Speed Of Ninety Miles Per Hour While Being Pursued By A Law Enforcement Vehicle
Sponsor: Billy Gaskill (D-41), 870-239-4383, billy.gaskill@ar...
The December meeting of Drinking Liberally's Little Rock chapter is nigh upon us. Tomorrow night, at 6pm at Khalil's in west Little Rock (Shackleford Rd., sort of across from P.F. Chang's), drinks will be drank, discussions will be discussed, an...
Continuing my current favorite feature, let's peek at page 9B of the good ol' Democrat-Gazette and see what we can see.
Hmmm...a letter suggesting restricting the number of children a woman on welfare can have, a letter that raves about the differ...
Props (as the kids say) where they are due: Sen. Mark Pryor has changed his position and is now willing to vote for the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
Says the soon-to-be-senior Senator from Arkansas:
On many previous occasions, I have said tha...
As you can see, I have been futzing around with some new templates. There's a decent chance that, some time in the next few days, regular readers might find BHR unreachable. Do not panic; it will be back whenever I fix whatever line of co...
First, three thoughts.
1. Let's be really, really clear about what the GOP were saying by demanding all-or-nothing on the extensions. Roughly translated, it was: "We are more than willing to see taxes go up on absolutely everyone, even those w...
With so many pre-filed bills, we thought it might be a good idea to look at each of them prior to the start of the legislative session, discuss what each bill is designed to do and how it will help/hurt average Arkansans, and take an official p...
1. If we believe the (flawed, inapplicable) Alabama Policy Institute study cited by David Cox, it seems clear that children in single-parent households do markedly worse by API's measures than do children in home with cohabitating couples. That ...
Thoughts, reactions, and (mainly) unnecessarily sarcastic comments regarding Seth Blomeley's fluffy Democrat-Gazette feature on Secretary of State-elect Mark Martin from last Sunday.
“I had the opportunity to deliver checks from the committee to the ...