Subject: Arkansas

• Why Heart Huckabee

  November 15, 2007

• Three-Headed Monster

  June 29, 2006

• This just in: Musicians also use performance-enhancing drugs

  January 15, 2008

• I Went Back To Ohio

  May 21, 2007

• Don't Stop Thinking About 2012

  August 27, 2008

• An Anti-War Movement of One

  September 11, 2002

• Spoiling for a Fight

  January 7, 2009

• The Stronger Than Hell Tour

  Monday, May 26

  May 21, 2008

• Shotgun Stories

  The South, Without White-Trash Clichés

  May 7, 2008

• Barsuk's Radio Man Digs Camping, Dylan, and Baked Goods

  Ask him what he thinks about the consolidation of radio interests.

  October 24, 2007

• It's Hailing Horror

  Seattle metal mainstays Himsa take their hardcore-inflected roar to the masses.

  March 15, 2006

• A Downpour of January Political News

  Plus: horse sex!

  January 11, 2006

• Prime Numbers From Vega

  Nov. 9-15, 2005

  November 9, 2005

• Rock, Paper, Scissors

  Nov. 2-8, 2005

  November 2, 2005

• Mindful Reform

  December 22, 2004

• One Nation, Under Me

  November 10, 2004

• Looking Out for #1

  October 6, 2004

• Mentality Challenged

  March 3, 2004

• Your Manager Stinks!

  August 21, 2002

• Rhymes with Seltzer

  August 7, 2002

• The Culture Bunker

  June 13, 2001

• CD Reviews

  January 24, 2001

• Overruled

  October 18, 2000

• The Metro Gnome

  October 4, 2000

• Art for protest's sake

  June 14, 2000

• Full steam ahead

  April 5, 2000

• Eyewitness to a witch hunt

  April 21, 1999

• The 'Times' green ink

  October 14, 1998

• Messin' with Texas

  September 30, 1998

• Who Killed the Timber Task Force?

  July 8, 1998

• Caution: Armed Volunteer Litter Crew Ahead

  May 27, 2009

• American Idol's Adam Lambert Scores Rolling Stone Cover

  Suck it, Kris Allen. The wholesome (read: heterosexual) guy from Arkansas may have won American Idol, but it's flamboyant runner-up Adam Lambert that's on the cover of the new Rolling Stone. And in an exclusive interview with the magazine, Adam confirms that he is... Wait for it... ...Gay. Because you know, it was such a mystery up until this point. I could care less about the guy officially coming out. But I will be picking up the issue to check out Adam's glamorous photo shoot. Check i

  June 10, 2009

• Patty Murray to Ray LaHood: Give Us The Ferry Money--and Go Make Me a Sandwich!

  Now where's that sandwich?Yesterday, everyone was in an uproar over the fact that the Obama Administration gave the Washington's ferries--the nation's largest ferry system--only $750,000, or less than any state ferry system besides Arkansas' and Kentucky's. (Chris Kornelis says it's because the Indian food-jonesing Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood rode the Bremerton Ferry--against the wishes of local ferry authorities.) Then Patty Murray--whose money-finding abilities are formidable--placed

  July 16, 2009

• Fun With Statistics: State School Superintendent Gets Creative to Make State #1 in Test Scores

  ​You can tell a lot of stories with numbers, and the state Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction just told one of them. In a release entitled, "State SAT Scores Lead the Nation Again" the office notes that, among states in which more than half of high school graduates took the SAT, Washington had the highest mean score in the critical reading and math, and the fourth highest mean score in writing. What the release fails to mention is huge swaths of the country--particularly

  August 25, 2009

• Your One-Step Guide to Turning Wal-Mart into a Victim: Blame Amazon

  Sympathy for the Devil.​Fiona Dias has done the impossible. She's managed to turn the Mephistopheles of Big Box retailers into a victim. That'd be Wal-Mart. Dias, the VP of a company which manages the Web sites of large retailers like Wal-Mart, accomplished the stunning feat in a New York Times article documenting the growing price wars between Amazon and the Bentonville, Arkansas giant. Wal-Mart still dominates retail with $400 billion in sales. Amazon is a relative lightweight with on

  November 24, 2009

• Timothy Egan Says Mike Huckabee Should be "Willie Hortonized"

  Willie Horton's arrest was a club used to bludgeon then-Democatic Presidential candidate Michael Dukakis.​Tim Egan, the New York Times political opinion maker on all things West, has wasted no time in weighing in on what should become of possible Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. Says Egan of the former Arkansas governor who commuted the sentence of suspected cop killer Maurice Clemmons, he should be "Willie Hortonized."If this case does not sink the presidential aspirations

  November 30, 2009

• Mike Huckabee's 10 Most-Publicized Sentence Commutations

  Huckabee's home state is not shy about putting criminals away for centuries. And the former Governor is not shy about setting them free.​Yesterday, the New York Times wrote that the commutation of accused cop-killer Maurice Clemmons' sentence in 2000 was so de rigueur for then-Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee it didn't even make a list of his Top 10 most-publicized pardons. On August 1, 2004, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette wrote up Huckabee's most noteworthy clemencies. What can you learn f

  December 1, 2009

• Bill O'Reilly, Man of Principle, Gives Mike Huckabee a Pass on Clemency for Maurice Clemmons

  A man of empathy, forgiveness, and understanding--much like Mike Huckabee himself!--Bill O'Reilly offered the former Arkansas governor (and now fellow Fox News host) a sympathetic ear on his show last night. "It's not your fault, Governor," said the lenient and merciful O'Reilly, commuting the show's usual sentence for public officials who are seen to be soft on crime.

  December 1, 2009

• Playing the Maurice Clemmons Blame Game

  Huckabee is one of several targets for finger-pointing.​Mike Huckabee has thus far been on the receiving end of most of the blame for the premature release of Maurice Clemmons, the now-dead suspect in the Sunday murders of four Lakewood police officers. This makes sense. Huckabee is a national figure. As a possible 2012 Presidential candidate there's a lot of horse-race interest in how his commutation of Clemmons' sentence back in 2000 will effect his political future. And in his few publ

  December 1, 2009

• Gregoire to Be Even Tougher on Clemency?

  December 2, 2009

• The Maurice Clemmons Case: Finger Pointing and Political Squabbling Overlook the 'Little Picture'

  Clemmons​You can read dueling reports this morning on whose justice system is responsible for the deaths of four Lakewood police officers. The P-I's Joel Connelly says it's ex-Arkansas Gov. and presidential aspirant Mike Huckabee, who once commuted the sentence of future alleged cop killer Maurice Clemmons. The Times' Danny Westneat less specifically says it's "We," our system that let Clemmons out of jail six days before the Lakewood officers were mowed down in a Pierce County coffee shop

  December 2, 2009

• Former Governor Mike Lowry on Mike Huckabee: "I Sympathize"

  Former Washington Governor Mike Lowry says he's thankful a commutation he made never came back to haunt him like Mike Huckabee's.​Former Washington Governor Mike Lowry says he's fortunate never to have been in the same position as Mike Huckabee, the then-Arkansas governor who granted clemency to Maurice Clemmons, a man accused of murdering four Lakewood police officers. In a conversation yesterday, the one-term governor admitted he couldn't quite comprehend commuting the sentences of over

  December 2, 2009

• Though Fuming at Arkansas Over Maurice Clemmons, Pierce County Has Also Tried to Keep Ex-Cons Away

  Horne argued that Pierce County was a dumping ground ​Pierce County officials are understandably fuming over Arkansas' reluctance to take Maurice Clemmons back. If not for Arkansas' refusal to issue a warrant in October for violation of Clemmons' parole in that state, Washington could have denied the serial offender bail for pending charges here, and he would never have gotten the chance to slay four Lakewood officers. Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer told The Seattle Times

  December 2, 2009

• Bill O'Reilly's Goon Squad to Visit Tacoma Judges Who Set Bail for Cop-Killer Maurice Clemmons

  You can tell Bill O'Reilly's a fearless truth seeker because of how loudly he yells.​Four police officers get gunned down in cold blood on Sunday and, being humans, we want to know where to point fingers. The answer, of course, is right at Maurice Clemmons, the disturbed former convict from Tacoma who started going crazy last May. But he's not the only one responsible. Then Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee commuted Clemmons sentence in 2000, essentially letting him walk. Arkansas made a l

  December 3, 2009

• Pierce County's Own Pushback on Felons

  December 9, 2009

• Venture Capital at KeyArena and Charles Garcia's Condotta Curse

  Garcia's rise has been so fast and furiuos that this shitty photo is about the best we could find.​With apologies to Quincy Pondexter boosters, Seattle University junior Charles Garcia is the best professional prospect in the city. A junior college transfer who was mysteriously declined admission into the University of Washington after Lorenzo Romar locked him up on the recruiting trail, Garcia fled to former Husky assistant Cameron Dollar's fledgling program a few miles south, and entered

  December 18, 2009

• Arkansas Felon William Forbes Arrives In Seattle, Promptly Goes Missing

  Maurice Clemmons wasn't the only offender to break his parole last month​This will likely sound familiar: A man is convicted of theft in Arkansas, and then subsequently relocates to Washington where the state Department of Corrections takes responsibility for his supervision. After violating the terms of his release agreement, he disappears. The person in question here is William T. Forbes, not reputed cop killer Maurice Clemmons. Forbes is one of 14 offenders from Arkansas whose supervis

  December 21, 2009

• We're No. 36! Washington Narrowly Beats DC in National Happiness Ranking

  What's the matter, Washington? Still bummed about the election results?​Of course you are familiar with the Oswalt/Wu index of life satisfaction. The two scientists have published a paper in Science magazine (see abstract), based on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and UCLA research, that surprisingly places Louisiana first among our 50 states--plus the District of Columbia--and New York last. Is this because hurricanes make people happy (or the excess drinking and

  December 22, 2009

• A.M. Music News: T.I. "Free," Tyler in Rehab, and the FBI Drops Documents

  Tyler is going into rehab, but not leaving Aerosmith. Whew.​XXL: T.I. was released from Arkansas' Forrest City Prison yesterday, where he had been serving a ten-month sentence for purchasing unregistered automatic firearms and silencers. He was scheduled to be released in March 2010; he will live in a dorm-style halfway house until then. NYT: The FBI releases over 300 pages of documents demonstrating they had been aiding state authorities and tracking Michael Jackson for his alleged chil

  December 23, 2009

• A Soundtrack to Christmas Morning

  Whether any of us like it or not, we are guaranteed to be subjected to hour upon hour of Christmas music every year around this time. Go out to pick up 2 things at the grocery store? Christmas music, pumping overhead. Hardware store? Same thing. Hell, even getting pho a couple times last week, I was treated to close to an hour of instrumental Christmas songs. There is absolutely no escaping it unless you are a shut-in or deaf. That said, everyone's family has some songs that become Christmas sta

  December 25, 2009