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Hundreds showed up at the Washington County Fairgrounds. It was cloudy so it wasn't hot and if you brought a chair you could sit and enjoy yourself.

U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln sent out an urgent plea for campaign cash today so she can continue the fight for health care for all Americans.

Arkansas has a ways to go. BIG BLADES KEEP ON TURNIN': These are from the LM Glasfiber.

Douglas Grant/The Weekly Vista Former Congressman Asa Hutchinson speaks to a crowd at Blowing Springs Park.

Arkansas' U.S. senators said Tuesday they have concerns about the clean energy bill that came out of the House last week.

Five months into his administration, President Obama has room for improvement on issues important to rural Arkansas, members of the state's congressional delegation say.

There are certain things in the lives of Americans that they just don't want messed with - by anybody.

(Little Rock, AR - June 25, 2009) The Waxman-Markey “American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009,” also known as Cap and Trade, will take over $63 million per year from Arkansas’ schools through higher electric rates and natural gas rates*. This is an average of $232,000 per school district per year that can no longer be used to hire teachers or give teachers raises. These increased energy costs could also lead to higher property tax rates for Arkansas property owners.

June 17, 2009 By Douglas McIntosh If I had to describe myself in this moment of economic chaos, I would say I am the grizzled sergeant, war weary, caught in the zone of instinctive awareness that combat veterans have. In order to survive you become a detached, cynical professional. In the sense of college degrees I am a rank amateur. However, over the last decade I have called the economic sphere pretty well. Perhaps the timing has been off, but I have nailed the trends perfectly. It takes a while for a two inch garden hose to fill a swimming pool, but it will fill it. Likewise, the endless debt, credit and bubbles of the last 25 years are finally reaching critical mass. It is no longer a matter of whether we have an economic collapse. No it is a matter of the scope, the intensity and the social chaos that economic collapse causes. My moniker over at Tree of Liberty is Doomer Doug, so I know what I am talking about. In a phrase, it is not coming: it is here.

Department of Veterans Affairs officials expressed confidence that the Aug. 1 launch of the Post-9/11 GI Bill will go smoothly, with the first benefits checks to be cut by the Treasury Department on Aug.

During a press conference held earlier this morning, retired lieutenant colonel Jim Buckner stood alongside State Senator Sue Madison to speak in support of the denial of the rezoning of the land adjacent to the Fayetteville National Cemetery.

Residents of Marty Roenigk's adopted hometown reacted to the news of his death with shock and disbelief.

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/BOB COLEMAN July 4th around the corner Megan Nichols , 16, of Rogers and Susan Matthews of Bentonville begin to set up a stand Thursday for Hale Fireworks on U.S. 71 Business in Bethel Heights.

A proposed commemorative coin is intended to provide a $5 million windfall for the planned U.S. Marshals Service Museum in Fort Smith.

AFL-CIO promotes resurgence of Employee Free Choice Act Story date: June 14, 2009 By Michael Ford crime@couriernews.com Two groups of representatives from the Arkansas branch of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations toured Arkansas last week, championing the Employee Free Choice Act , a piece of federal ...

On Saturday night, the first Fair Family Reunion Bail Out or Bust Fundraiser Hoedown will be held at the Benton County Fairgrounds.

Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, left, pose with their 18 children and Arkansas Representative John Boozman , wearing a gold tie, in front of the U.S. Capitol on the Duggar familya s recent visit to Washington.

Term limits for Arkansas legislators should be lengthened, Todd Turner, the state Democratic Party chairman, told senior party members Tuesday.

The state Democratic Party chairman promised members of the Washington County Democratic Central Committee to put forth a quality Democratic challenger to U.S. Rep.

U.S. Rep. John Boozman, R-Ark., along with U.S. Sens. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., and Mark Pryor, D-Ark., announced June 10 that Rogers Municipal Airport-Carter Field will get a $649,998 grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to construct a taxiway.