This Week in Terrible Things! (August 6-12)
Oh, the hell with it, let’s just do a few of these links and be done with it for the week.
- Double Up: A marvelous look at the corrupt and terrifying world of double dipping retirement in Arkansas from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s Mike Wickline. To sum up: Still terrible! (ADG)
- Just a Sec: Republican Secretary of State Mark Martin is the gift that keeps on giving for Arkansas Democrats. (Arkansas News Bureau)
- Bully for You: Case of city officials in Washington state seeking to silence a critic by invoking state “cyberstalking” law sheds light on how Arkansas cyberbullying law will, eventually and inevitably, limit free speech. Just you wait! (Me)
- Your Government at Work: Another day, another $473,142 in undocumented overpayments to school employees in Pine Bluff. (ADG)
- The Big Chill: Up to 270 jobs at Whirlpool fridge plant in Fort Smith are going away, RIP. (Southwest Times Record)
- Deadbeats: Near $100,000 tax hit for the Arkansas lottery for failing to remit taxes on lottery winnings in a timely manner. Oh, Arkansas lottery officials, your comical bumbling continues to bring us laughter and cheer in this dark and forbidding era. (Arkansas News Bureau)
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