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Panel floats alternative health plan

Friday, July 3, 2009

Sen. Edward Kennedy’s health committee released a new healthcare overhaul plan that would cover almost all Americans, in part by assessing fees on companies that don’t offer insurance, and would cost almost $400 billion less than an earlier proposal.

Afghan push meets gunfire

Friday, July 3, 2009

U.S. Marines suffered their first casualties of a new military campaign Thursday as they engaged in sporadic gunbattles along 55 miles of Taliban-controlled heartland in southern Afghanistan.

SUBSCRIBER Detainees a challenge, Obama says

Friday, July 3, 2009

President Barack Obama said Thursday that he’s uneasy about his own proposal to indefinitely imprison some of the most dangerous terror suspects being held now at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

SUBSCRIBER White House counters senator on Sotomayor

Friday, July 3, 2009

A top Republican pressed for more information Thursday about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s ties to a Puerto Rican civil-rights group he said took extreme positions on race, as the White House argued that the material was irrelevant to the judge’s nomination.

SUBSCRIBER NSA to aid cyber-security test

Friday, July 3, 2009

The Obama administration will proceed with a Bush-era plan to use National Security Agency assistance in screening government computer traffic on private-sector networks, with AT&T as the likely test site, according to three current and former government officials.


Arkansas*


Arkansas revenue sees drop from 2008

Friday, July 3, 2009

In the fiscal year that ended Tuesday, Arkansas’ general revenue collections dropped $13.8 million below the previous year but were $23 million above the state’s forecast.

Legislators OK plan to pay lottery deputies

Friday, July 3, 2009

A legislative committee Thursday signed off on the newly hired lottery chief’s plan to pay his top deputies more than $200,000 each.

Teen who 2 say pulled fatal trigger denied bail

Friday, July 3, 2009

A Little Rock district judge denied bail Thursday morning for the fourth teenage boy charged in the Tuesday afternoon killing of a 67-year-old man in his southwest Little Rock home during a robbery.

SUBSCRIBER Wildlife agency wins $7.3 million judgment

Friday, July 3, 2009

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission won a $7.3 million judgment in a lawsuit it filed to recoup the value of dead and dying timber in Clay, Randolph and Greene counties that it blamed on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ water-management policies.

SUBSCRIBER Lawsuit parties to work as peers

Friday, July 3, 2009

A law professor and the former student he sued alleging she defamed him will soon be colleagues at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s law school.


Obituaries


SUBSCRIBER Obituaries

Friday, July 3, 2009

Information for the obituaries and funeral notices below was supplied to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Advertising Department by funeral homes.


Opinion and Letters*


SUBSCRIBER COLUMNISTS Political play should shock no one

Friday, July 3, 2009

It’s amusing to watch the Washington political establishment feign shock, now that President Barack Obama’s reform administration has used a clay foot to vigorously kick one inspector general and boot another out the door.

SUBSCRIBER Plane infuriating

Friday, July 3, 2009

I’ve long ago forgiven airlines for charging me an extra $15 to satisfy my need to pack my clothes in a suitcase when I travel. While I sometimes miss those free bags of peanuts, these days I just stick my nose in a magazine when flight attendants hawking $7 snack packs squeeze down the aisle.

SUBSCRIBER EDITORIALS Pardon Wilburette!

Friday, July 3, 2009

SOMETIMES things are just meant to be. Or maybe not meant to be. And it seems that Miss Wilburette—great, big, scrumptious-looking thing that she is—just wasn’t meant to be bacon.


Sports*


WIMBLEDON 2009 Sister Act IV

Friday, July 3, 2009

Richard Williams refuses to watch his daughters Venus and Serena play each other. He says he simply can’t bear to see it, no matter the setting, no matter the stage.

Hillis anticipating role with new staff

Friday, July 3, 2009

People forget that Peyton Hillis used to be quite the ballplayer.

SUBSCRIBER HOG FUTURES: Stormy trip brought Mitchell to Arkansas

Friday, July 3, 2009

The latest in a series profiling new additions for the Arkansas football team in 2009.

SUBSCRIBER Roddick takes aim at Murray

Friday, July 3, 2009

The current edition of Wimbledon is the 23rd Grand Slam tournament since Andy Roddick won his lone major championship at the 2003 U.S. Open.

SUBSCRIBER Downhill course not all that easy

Friday, July 3, 2009

Gary Smith, founder of the Firecracker Fast 5K, likes to joke that he’ll change things up one of these years and make everyone run the course in the opposite direction.


Business*


Hail battered 26,000 acres of crops

Friday, July 3, 2009

Roughly 26,000 acres of crops were damaged by hail from a storm that rolled over Lonoke County on Tuesday, compounding problems for some farmers already struggling to catch up after May rainfall put them far behind schedule.

Future rides on GM sale, judge is told

Friday, July 3, 2009

An attorney for General Motors urged a bankruptcy judge Thursday to approve the automaker’s sale plan, saying that the only other alternative would be a liquidation of the company’s assets that would have “horrific” consequences.

SUBSCRIBER 467,000 layoffs in June worse than expected

Friday, July 3, 2009

Employers cut a larger-than-expected 467,000 jobs in June and the unemployment rate climbed to a 26-year high of 9.5 percent, the Labor Department reported Thursday.

SUBSCRIBER State’s farm exports jumped 49% in 2008

Friday, July 3, 2009

Arkansas wheat led a 49 percent growth in the state’s agricultural exports in 2008 to $3.2 billion, mirroring a national trend in rising shipments of grain abroad, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture figures released this week.

SUBSCRIBER Fees rise as banks face dips in funds

Friday, July 3, 2009

The banks want more money, and they’ve found a way to get it: by raising account fees.


Features*


A growing familiarity

Friday, July 3, 2009

The Bountiful Arkansas Day event at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute atop Petit Jean Mountain is designed to give the public an opportunity to taste and learn about produce grown in Arkansas, according to a story in Saturday’s HomeStyle section.

Mild and woolly

Friday, July 3, 2009

All right, it’s summer. And it’s a kids movie. It’s all about cute and cuddly, Happy Meal-ready characters who can be transposed easily in video games and other ancillary merchandise.

REVIEW: Public Enemies

Friday, July 3, 2009

With Public Enemies, all the pieces would seem to be in place for an epic gangster drama: director Michael Mann, who has an affinity for complicated criminals; stars Johnny Depp and Christian Bale, who are famous for immersing themselves in their roles; and a thrilling true story of brazen bank robbers on the run.

REVIEW: Whatever Works

Friday, July 3, 2009

My problem with Whatever Works, the new movie from Woody Allen, is not that the premise is a wee bit familiar. It’s that the delivery is off.

ON FILM: Film clips in brain mostly unreliable

Friday, July 3, 2009

More than 40 years’ worth of movie-watching piles up in your head. Things are forgotten. Other things get manufactured. Memory is an unreliable narrator. I envy friends who have clear recall of movies they saw 20 or 30 or 50 years ago, but my brain doesn’t work that way.


Columnists*


SUBSCRIBER THE RECRUITING GUY: UA tracks Purifoy as search for big guard intensifies

Friday, July 3, 2009

Arkansas basketball Coach John Pelphrey’s interest in finding a big guard is a plus for Conway’s Preston Purifoy.

SUBSCRIBER PAPER TRAILS Teens sure to surge to Bryant gig

Friday, July 3, 2009

FROM THE MOON TO HERE: A heads-up to the young, hip music lovers among us. LAbased pop-rock chart-maker Thriving Ivory (“Angels on the Moon” ) performs for free beginning between 6:30 and 7 p.m. at the Bryant Family Fest today at Mills Park Road. A word to the wise: Get there way early.

ON FILM: Film clips in brain mostly unreliable

Friday, July 3, 2009

More than 40 years’ worth of movie-watching piles up in your head. Things are forgotten. Other things get manufactured. Memory is an unreliable narrator. I envy friends who have clear recall of movies they saw 20 or 30 or 50 years ago, but my brain doesn’t work that way.


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