Wednesday in Arkansas

Time	Committee	Place	Agenda
1:00 p.m.	Rural Fire Depts. Study Committee	Arch St. F.D., LR	Click here

Time	Event	Place
4:00 p.m.	Governor attends the Celebration of the Life of Harry Ward	UAMS

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

Time	Place	Event
12:00 p.m.	Springdale	Archeology, History at the Drennen-Scott House
6:00 p.m.	Clinton School	"The Second Civil War," Ronald Brownstein

Time	Place	Event
9:30 a.m.	Arkansas City Hall	Historic District Board of Commissioners
11:30 a.m.	613 Redwater Rd.	Ribbon Cutting: Graham Crackers
12:00 p.m.	Landmark Bldg.	Main Street Texarkana

New York Times: Can’t Grasp Credit Crisis? Join the Club
Wall Street Journal: Bear's Run-Up Sets Stage for Clash
Washington Post: Five Years In Iraq
Washington Post: Justices Appear Skeptical Of D.C.'s Handgun Ban
Los Angeles Times: Obama addresses racial tensions
Houston Chronicle: Pay, patriotism draw immigrants to U.S. military
Chicago Tribune: Barack Obama calls for racial healing
Reuters: Obama's lead over Clinton narrows: Reuters poll

San Antonio Express-News: TX public preschool program has quantity, not quality
Knoxville News Sentinel: Bill to increase severance tax paid on coal
New Orleans Times Picayune: Lawmaker seeking helmet law repeal
Tulsa World: Lottery change touted to raise ed funding
Hattiesburg (Miss.) American: Voter ID bill dead, but may be revived
Southeast Missourian: Mo. sup ct overturns ruling blocking eminent domain
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Governor's Mansion needs help, Blunt says

Arkansas Democrat Gazette: Cease and desist, McDaniel tells payday lenders
Arkansas Democrat Gazette: Didn’t use trickery, Rep. Dobbins asserts
Arkansas Democrat Gazette: Shale-area legislators’ endorse Beebe plan
Arkansas Democrat Gazette: State praised for educating the very young
Arkansas Democrat Gazette: Library releases Clinton’s first-lady schedules today
Arkansas Democrat Gazette: Roofers benefit from bad weather
Ark. News Bureau: Payday lenders must shut down or face lawsuits, AG says
Ark. News Bureau: Lawmakers in Fayetteville Shale play endorse severance tax
Stephens DC Bureau: Arkansas mental health-care data system praised
Associated Press: New speaker says 3/4 of Ark. House likely to support tax hike
Associated Press: Plant to open in Paragould to make railcar axles
Associated Press: Ark. farmers watching weather as planting season nears
Associated Press: Nucor companies give more than $1M to scholarship fund
Associated Press: Ark. AG asks payday lenders to shut down or face lawsuits
Associated Press: With gas company hires, White County govt. losing workers

Benton County Daily Record: Anderson: Severance-tax proposal ‘half right’
Benton County Daily Record: Hendren wants views on severance-tax
Jonesboro Sun: Local officials ask lawmakers to help with road funding
Texarkana Gazette: Arkansas side to revise commercial zoning plans
NWA Morning News: Sheriff Candidates Hit Common Themes
Northwest Ark. Times: City meetings now being broadcast on Internet
Log Cabin Democrat: UCA commits to fight against in-state poverty

Paul Greenberg: Hubris
Arkansas Democrat Gazette: End this farce
Texarkana Gazette: Is Gun Ownership an Individual Right?
Benton County Daily Record: Sunshine week: It never ends
Arkansas Leader: Minority stops fair tax on gas
Jonesboro Sun: Lack of insurance for some is fatal
Brenda Blagg: An Open Issue
Gene Lyons: Ethnic delusions cloud Democratic primary
Meredith Oakley: Why not go Green?
Grady Jim Robinson: Barack, b’live I’d become a Methodist
Vic Harville cartoon