arkansas

Arkansas Slammed by Deadly Storms

May 3, 2008
Emergency response teams faced a busy weekend helping Arkansas residents cope with the aftermath of another round of severe weather that pounded the Southern state Friday with heavy thunderstorms and tornadoes. Eight lives were lost, raising the state's storm-related death toll for the year to 24.

The Wal-Mart Videos

Apr 10, 2008
Hillary Clinton has, for obvious reasons, tried to distance herself from her time on the board of Wal-Mart, the Arkansas company that, for many Democratic voters, emblematizes globalization and all those jobs that were shipped overseas that the candidates keep talking about.
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Huckabee Yells Out for a Debate, but the Press Goes Deaf

Feb 27, 2008
How quickly the tides turn for would-be presidential nominees. Just a few weeks ago, a former Arkansas governor was grabbing headlines, and it wasn't Bill Clinton. Now, Mike Huckabee is calling for a debate with GOP front-runner John McCain and almost no one in the media is taking note except the six reporters still assigned to trail him.

Huckabee Hangs On

Feb 10, 2008
If one thing is clear after last week's Super Tuesday craziness, it's that candidates who seemed to score big want to claim victory as a foregone conclusion, while others who didn't show quite as strongly -- like Mike Huckabee, for example -- want to challenge the finality of the results.

Fact-Checking Clinton’s ’35 Years of Change’

Feb 5, 2008
Hillary Clinton has made much of her "35 years" of "working to bring positive change to people's lives," but when McClatchy's Washington bureau investigated the claim, it found that the "bulk of her career" was spent "at one of Arkansas' most prestigious corporate law firms, where she represented big companies and served on corporate boards."

Huckabee’s Sermons Off Limits

Dec 13, 2007
The Huckabee campaign has refused to give the media much more than scraps of the candidate's religious speeches, leaving his 12 years as a pastor relatively shrouded in mystery. We already know he doesn't believe in evolution, thought at one time that AIDS patients should be quarantined and isn't ashamed "to let you know that I believe Adam and Eve were real people," so what is he hiding?

Huckabee v. Huffington

Dec 8, 2007
The gloves are off in a throwdown between Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and Huffington Post creator Arianna Huffington over a low point in Huckabee's career as governor of Arkansas. The controversy concerns the Huffington Post's coverage of the part Huckabee played in the release of serial rapist Wayne Dumond, whose time in prison clearly didn't rehabilitate him.