Wednesday night, as I was writing the two posts that went up yesterday, I sort of assumed that the gap between the first post and the second post would be filled with a deafening silence from the Secretary of State’s…
Category: Ethics
"Habit rules the unreflecting herd." –Wm. Wordsworth
I’m not exactly breaking new sociological ground when I say that we humans are creatures of habit. We do the same things, at roughly the same time, on a roughly regular basis. You might not be able to set your…
Dude, Where's My (State-Owned) Car?
The rumor, according to a current employee of the Secretary of State’s Office (who, for obvious reasons, wishes to remain anonymous), was that the office had purchased the 2010 Ford Escape Hybrid due to its above average gas mileage, which…
Guest Post: Rebutting Carter
[Friend and reader “The Hypo” took issue with Rep. Davy Carter’s statements in yesterday’s joint article. He wrote the following guest post in response. Enjoy.] As noted here and elsewhere, the House recently adopted a policy banning the use of…
Some House members oppose audio/video policy
[Editor’s note: The following story is a collaborative effort among Roby Brock (Talk Business), Matt Campbell (Blue Hog Report), Michael Tilley (The City Wire), and Jason Tolbert (The Tolbert Report).] Some Arkansas legislative members also have problems with a new…
Princella Smith Has Mastered Time Travel
Hyperbole? Hardly! I mean, just look at this series of events: On April 12, 2011, Princella Smith was arrested and booked in Wynne, Arkansas, at 12:36pm on charges of driving without proof of insurance, driving without a state-issued license, and…
"Even the politicians have learned – but, as usual, the politicians are much slower than the people they want to lead."
I don’t know what it is about Secretary of State Mark Martin (and the horde of retread Republicans who work for him) that constantly brings Hunter S. Thompson to mind. My guess is that it has to do with the…
Questions raised with new Arkansas House video, audio rules
[Editor’s note: The following story is a collaborative effort among Roby Brock (Talk Business), Matt Campbell (Blue Hog Report), Michael Tilley (The City Wire), and Jason Tolbert (The Tolbert Report).] A communications policy adopted by the Arkansas House of Representatives…
We were somewhere around Little Rock, on the edge of the Delta, when the pain of the election began to take hold.
The late, great Hunter S. Thompson once wrote, “I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.” Even if he wasn’t talking specifically about the Arkansas Secretary of State’s office, his words are nonetheless on…
Movable Object Meets A Stoppable Force
Last night in Faulkner County, Deputy Secretary of State Alice Stewart spoke to a local Tea Party group about the just-completed legislative session and about her view of the rise of the Tea Party. The Log Cabin Democrat has the…