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Self-professed budget hawk Crawford really a big spender

Rick Crawford, whose personal financial disrepair was an issue in his election as Republican congressman from the 1st District, is a professed spending hawk. But according to a new report by the transparency website Legistorm, Rep. Crawford's words don't match his actions.
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Sneering at traffic safety

A Longview, Wash., teenager is leading a campaign to get rid of the city's cameras that catch people running red lights, and an Associated Press article about the campaign mentioned that nine states have banned red-light cameras statewide. Arkansas is one of the nine.
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Hot Springs data available

The Times' collection of searchable databases, which already includes salary information on all Little Rock, Pulaski County and Fayetteville government employees and lists of state agency cell phone expenditures and license plate numbers for all state legislators and constitutional officers, continues to expand with the addition of data from Hot Springs.

Have you seen this ex-con?

Given how expensive it can be to keep a person in prison, it's understandable that a lot of counties in Arkansas are looking at parole and probation for non-violent offenders rather than spending more money to feed, shelter and clothe them in the hoosegow.
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New life for cemetary

Thanks to a $250,000 grant from the National Park Service awarded to UALR history professor Johanna Miller Lewis, the Rohwer cemetery is getting restored.

Arkansas-born actress misidentified

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette recently ran a publicity photograph from the 1973 movie "White Lightning," which misidentified Jennifer Billingsley, who, as her on-line biography notes, "graduated with honors from Fort Smith Senior High School in Arkansas," class of 1958.
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An anthem for the gun nuts

Rising country star and Arkansas native Justin Moore's new album features a ditty that's sure to be a hit among the concealed carry crowd.

Sweepstake scams part fools from money

Euromilliones Loteria International was pleased to inform us, their letter said, that we'd just won $815,960 in the Spanish Sweepstake. And we didn't even remember buying a ticket.
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Data digging to make government more transparent

The Times' collection of searchable databases, which already includes salary information on all Little Rock and Pulaski County government employees, continues to expand at www.staging.arktimes.com/data.

Separate but equal at Dickey-Stephens

A visitor to Dickey-Stephens Park discovered that he couldn't buy a beer and a hot dog at the same refreshment stand, but had to go to two different stands. He wondered why.
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IRS nixes tax exemption of 2,560 Arkansas non-profits

The Internal Revenue Service announced last week that it has revoked the tax-exempt status of 2,560 Arkansas non-profit organizations that failed to file their required tax forms for three years running.

City denies PETA permit for public protest statue

Free speech advocates are squawking over the City of Little Rock's decision to turn down a permit for a public protest sculpture by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

LR Zoo's Ellen getting to know new friends

Ellen the elephant has been getting to know her new companions at the Little Rock Zoo by putting her trunk in their ears and mouth and smelling their feet.

Arkansas Medicaid ranks low

Only five state Medicaid programs spend less per patient than Arkansas's, according to a consumer activist group.

The P.A. that saved the WM3

One of the directors behind the "Paradise Lost" films reveals how the filmmakers were finally able to win the court's approval to record the trial of Damien Echols and Jason Baldwin.

A home for LGBT homeless

A local non-profit is currently raising money to build a shelter for one of Arkansas's most vulnerable groups: homeless gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth.

Dumb and Dumber

Dumb apparently ain't illegal yet, but the prosecuting attorney's file that backs up Jegley's report reads like a James Bond parody.

Light compacting

The city has decided that the five solar-powered compacting trash receptacles you may have seen around were not worth their $4,000 price tag.

New meters to run on sun

Calling on history

There's history haunting Boyle Park, Little Rock City Hall, Ditch Bayou Battlefield in Chicot County and other locales, so who you gonna call?
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