Wednesday in Arkansas

I'll be away from the blog for most of the day. I'm walking out the door now for Ft. Smith, and I'll be in Little Rock tonight before ending up back home.

Time	Committee	Room	Agenda
10:00 a.m.	Public Health, Welfare & Labor	151	Click here

Time	Event	Place
9:00 a.m.	Beebe participates in the Kops for Kids event	Stamps
12:00 p.m.	Beebe addresses the Minority Contractors Luncheon	Little Rock

Court	Oral Arguments	Today's Opinions
Supreme Court	No hearings today	No opinions released today
Court of Appeals	No hearings today	Click here (after 11:00)

Time	Place	Event
10:00 a.m.	Camp Robinson	Civilian Student Training Program Graduation

Time	Place	Event
1:00 p.m.	204 McCartney Blvd.	Ribbon cutting: Lippian Family Dentistry

New York Times: Bush Lawyers Discussed Fate of C.I.A.Tapes
Wall Street Journal: Independent Groups Gain Clout
Chicago Tribune: Filmmaker Ken Burns endorses Obama
Los Angeles Times: Campaign focus shifts to kitchen-table issues
Houston Chronicle: Creationist school offers degree of controversy
Arkansas Democrat Gazette: Bill to produce autos that use less fuel passes
Arkansas Dem-Gazette: MESSAGE FROM HUCKABEE : Do you see what I see?
Reuters: Pakistani train crashes; 58 dead, many hurt

New Orleans Times Picayune: EDITORIAL: Tax reformers still needed
Tyler Morning Telegraph: TX State Rep. Cook Blasts Ag's Opinion, Craddick
Dallas Morning News: Audit may imperil Dallas schools' bond vote
Oklahoma Journal Record: OK public pension systems among nation's worst
WLBT-TV Jackson, Miss.: How Much Funding Will Education Get Across the State?
Kansas City Star: Missouri panel calls for action on autism

Arkansas Democrat Gazette: House speaker race finds Wills all alone
Arkansas Democrat Gazette: Pine Bluff to get 150 jobs in poultry plant deal
Arkansas Democrat Gazette: Arkansas gets a pat on back for its pensions
Arkansas Democrat Gazette: Law barring legislators from state jobs deemed OK
Arkansas Democrat Gazette: Beebe rules out pardon for 3 in 1993 slayings
Ark. News Bureau: Conway Democrat only candidate left in House speaker's race
Ark. News Bureau: AG reviewing Hispanic ID cards
Ark. News Bureau: Delays at Ark airports more frequent than industry average
Associated Press: Dunn concedes to Wills in coming Ark. House speaker's race
Associated Press: New director of Arkansas Historic Preservation Program named
Associated Press: Federal spending includes $44M for Jefferson County center
Associated Press: Supporters bring West Memphis case back to fore
Associated Press: Ark. officers plan increased DWI enforcement over holidays

Paul Greenberg: Voices in the wilderness
David Sanders: Taking the good with the bad
Log Cabin Democrat: Teachers
Arkansas Democrat Gazette: Another high school
Gene Lyons: Cool Kids determined to take Hillary down
Meredith Oakley: Try some goodwill
Brenda Blagg: Clinton loses ground
NWA Morning News: Bentonville Gets It Right On New School
Jonesboro Sun: Time to clean up major leagues
Benton Courier Political Cartoon