Per content partner Roby Brock: Democratic Rep. Linda Tyler of Conway has left her post as House Majority Leader for the 2011 General Assembly for an undisclosed leadership role with Speaker of the House-designate Robert Moore. [***] Rep. Johnnie Roebuck,…
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HCR (Breaking): Va. Judge Finds Individual Mandate Unconstitutional
UPDATE (1:25pm): Content partner Jason Tolbert has the .pdf of the actual ruling, which you can read here. More thoughts forthcoming on this, I’m sure. — Judge Henry Hudson today held that the individual mandate in the healthcare reform bill…
AR-Sen: Lincoln Misses DADT Vote
Pop quiz: why did Blanche Lincoln miss today’s vote for cloture on the filibuster that is holding up, among other things, the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell? “Senator [Blanche] Lincoln didn’t make it back to this vote because she…
AR-House Dist. 46: On David Meeks's Bill
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…
Where Everybody Knows Your Name
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, and…
BHR Housekeeping
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…
Dr. Strangebigot (Or, "How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Loathe The Family Council")
I’m not sure how much overlap there is between the readers of this blog and the readers of Progressive Arkansas, so it’s entirely possible that you missed my recent point-counterpoint with David Cox of the Family Council regarding adoption and…
AR-House Dist. 41: Garnering Dissent, Pt. 2 of 2
When it comes to Representative Ed Garner’s proposal to remove the capital gains tax, the numbers are what they are, and we’ve covered them thoroughly. Thing is, most people are not going to oppose this bill simply because the numbers…
AR-House Dist. 41: Garnering Dissent, Pt. 1 of 2
While I have written at some length about the flaws inherent in a proposal to remove Arkansas’s capital gains tax, that post was written in the more general context of a blanket removal of all capital gains tax, regardless of…