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In advance of Wednesday's packed convention activities - perhaps the most content-heavy convention night I can remember across my four decades watching conventions - the Arkansans delegation spent a little time with Bill Clinton at a reception called "Where It All Began." The name of the party - held at the WHYY-FM public radio building, a snazzy space near Independence Hall - was a double entendre for Philadelphia's role as the birthplace of American democracy and Arkansas's role in fostering Hillary Clinton's public service work.
Bill Clinton made the case that his wife is "the best darn change-maker I've ever met my entire life" at the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night. In fact, he made this point over and over and over again.
Former Gov. Mike Huckabee won't be speaking at the Republican National Convention this week, opting instead to appear on Fox News as a political contributor. Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, had invited his former rival to address the delegates, but the network told Huckabee he'd have to choose between the news set and the convention stage.
None of Arkansas' top Republican leaders supported Donald Trump in the state's March 1 primary, but now that the party's presidential nominating convention is here, they're lining up to back him. Five of the six Republicans in the state's congressional delegation are present.
Opponents of a proposed constitutional amendment that would cap jury verdicts against medical care providers announced Wednesday that they have filed paperwork allowing them to raise money to defeat the proposal in the Nov. 8 general election. The committee's directors include Martha Deaver, president of Arkansas Advocates for Nursing Home Residents, which was founded in 1995.
This 1985 file photo shows then-Arkansas first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in her inaugural ball gown. “It was the first time I had hit an obstacle I couldn't overcome with hard work and determination, and I was outraged,” she would write in her book, “Living History.” More than a half-century later, and after much hard work, much determination, and most of all, many, many obstacles - some undeniably of her own making - Clinton is no closer to actual space travel.
Marilyn La Combe stood outside an outbuilding at the Evansville Fire Department, dropped a quarter into the slot and jiggled the handle until water came out of the short hose. She gets about three minutes worth of water for each quarter, but the pressure is lower in the afternoon than it is in the morning, she said.
During the early years of the Clinton administration, when the president and his team were beset by the Whitewater real estate investment scandal, Hillary Clinton was, for better or worse, the White House bulldog. Whitewater was rooted in her and her husband's days in Arkansas, when they built an intricate web of relations with James and Susan McDougal, two Arkansas benefactors who went in on the real estate deal with them, donated money and employed Hillary Clinton at a prominent law firm.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's presidential campaign has agreed to pay $25,000 to settle a lawsuit for using a 1980s rock anthem, "Eye of the Tiger," without the permission of the music's owner, CNN Money said this week. Terms of the settlement between the campaign and Rude Music Inc. are confidential, but details have emerged in recent Federal Election Commission filings.
Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Conner Eldridge criticized Republican Sen. John Boozman Wednesday for opposing an effort to prevent terrorists from buying guns, saying an alternative measure backed by the Arkansas lawmaker doesn't go far enough. Speaking to the Political Animals Club, Eldridge said he supports a proposal by Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein that would let the federal government block many gun sales to known or suspected terrorists.
Col. Tamhra Hutchins-Frye will be the Arkansas Air National Guard's first female brigadier general after her formal promotion Saturday. Tamhra Hutchins-Frye decided to join the Arkansas Air National Guard in 1984 to fly fighter jets, but she was told no.
Maintenance work on Arkansas 178 at the Bull Shoals Dam in Baxter County will require lane closures beginning next month. The Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department says all lanes of the Arkansas 178 bridge will be closed on June 6 and June 7 as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers performs maintenance work.
Led by Texas, 11 states have sued the federal government in Texas over President Obama's reminder that the law says transgender students are protected by non-discrimination law, including in using bathrooms aligned with their gender. Early coverage doesn't answer these questions that come immediately to mind: 1) What is the cause of legal action against a reminder of the law ? As yet, the government hasn't cut off money to any school that discriminates against transgender students.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded a $1.4 million grant for scientists to study why obesity rates in Arkansas are among the highest in the country. The grant from the USDA's Agricultural Research Service was awarded to the Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.