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More than a year after a federal judge ruled a rare woodpecker couldn’t stand in the way of a massive irrigation project, a top official said it will be several more years before rice and soybean farmers can use water from the White River to irrigate their crops.  READ MORE!

This will be the most nationalized political race in Arkansas political history.

That means it will be about national issues and national constituencies and that our little state will only so happen, owing to circumstances, to be the battleground. READ MORE!

Republican gubernatorial candidate Jim Keet on Tuesday called for phasing out the state's tax on capital gains and a reduction in Arkansas' income tax.

Keet, a Little Rock restaurant owner and former state legislator, made his candidacy official by filing paperwork at the state Capitol. Keet had announced Friday that he would run against Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe.  READ MORE!

Arkansas will have at least three new members of Congress in 2011, a rarity for a state that hasn't experienced this much turnover since the 1970s, except in the post-scandal elections of the 1990s.

Democratic Congressmen Marion Berry and Vic Snyder both decided to retire after 14 years. The state's only Republican member of Congress, John Boozman, is seeking the GOP nomination for Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln's seat. Democratic Congressman Mike Ross is the only incumbent House member seeking to stay put.   READ MORE!

UPDATE:  Within on half hour after posting this same article in the Community Blog section, of the BB, the Bluegrass Festival blog was 'depreciated' so it would not appear in the public blog section.

Yes, as of yet, now one that I know has heard an explanation from the Baxter Bulletin about why the Franciscan Monk article and all of its comments were deleted some time back.  I promised a Radio Program (online) that would call out the BB to give an explanation.  You can hear that program by clicking HERE, or by using the audio player above.

Today, TLO noted the appearance of a new blog.  This one is a blatant advertisement for the first annual Bull Shoals Lake Bluegrass Festival.

Well, the Franciscan Monk article disappeared for no given reason.  Lets see how long it takes for THIS blog to disappear because of this post, and then, lets see how long it takes for the advertising blog that I noted above to disappear.

The Baxter Bulletin is in disarray at very least.  Almost like the delirium of a dying person saying and doing things that make no sense.

Today, Attorney General Dustin McDaniel announced that the State of Arkansas has settled its lawsuit filed in 2008 against the pharmaceutical company, Eli Lilly, over its promotion of the drug Zyprexa. Arkansas will receive $18,500,000 from the settlement. It is the State's largest pharmaceutical settlement and second largest civil settlement in the State's history.

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A woman claims in a lawsuit against Jefferson County that a sheriff's deputy caused her son to drown by shooting him with a Taser while he was in a pond.  Brett Howie drowned Feb. 19, 2007, trying to swim away from Deputy Randy Dolphin.....More>>>

A Marion County, Arkansas man is in jail following a shooting incident at a residence in rural Peel, Arkansas on Friday.

Investigators say George Cagle, 61, of Peel fired one shot at Patrick Rogers, 34, and Angie Dees, 27, both of Peel, with a 30-30 rifle...........Read more >>.

GALVESTON, Texas — An Arkansas man accused of shooting his mother and uncle during an argument about a rental car surrendered to police in Galveston, authorities said Thursday. Tramell Mackenzie Hunter, 20, of Little Rock, Ark., told a security officer at Beachtown, an upscale, beach-front residential development on the East End, that he was a fugitive, Galveston police Capt. Jeff Heyse said ... Read more here.

 A Rockbridge, Missouri man has been charged with Breaking or Entering and Felony Theft of Property following an investigation into the theft of a covered trailer and tools on December 30th.

 Sheriff's deputies were notified by a victim residing on Baxter CR 984 in the Mallard Point area that he was awaken in the early morning hours of December 30th by noises outside the residence. The victim arose and made his way to the door. He discovered that his 14 foot covered Haulmark trailer valued at $3,000 had been stolen, as well as various tools that also had a value of approximately $3,000.

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