Not your father's kind of justice Date: 11/19/2009 By: Doug Smith The right to a trial by a jury of one's peers is still widely regarded as a great virtue of the American Way of Life. /more/ Mediation: It's not just for pre-trial Date: 11/19/2009 By: Doug Smith Most laymen think of mediation as a process that's done before trial, with the hope of avoiding trial. And so it is, but there's also a lesser-known mediation after trial, with the idea of avoiding a costly appeal. /more/ Strongman Date: 11/12/2009 By: Eric Francis November 2008: For the first time in years, it seemed the heat was on North Little Rock Mayor Patrick Henry Hays during an election. /more/

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Life and death Date: 11/19/2009 By: David Koon Not many were shocked when Curtis Lavelle Vance was found guilty last week of capital murder, rape, residential burglary and theft of property in the October 2008 beating death of KATV anchor Anne Pressly. /more/ An apple today Date: 11/12/2009 By: Michael Dougan Fall is upon us, and it is time to think of apples. /more/ One more time around Date: 11/5/2009 By: Gerard Matthews You may remember the huge Freedom From Religion Foundation-sponsored billboard that stood over the Main Street Bridge in North Little Rock last winter. /more/

What's a liberal to do? Date: 10/29/2009 By: Max Brantley Until last weekend, I was inclined to dismiss liberals' call to vote next year for a Green Party candidate or even a Republican as a protest vote of U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln's wishy-washy moderation /more/

The hatred of health care Date: 11/19/2009 By: Ernest Dumas If you have spent an hour in front of a television the last month you know how encompassing and ruthless the health-care reform debate has become. /more/

'Very solemnly, with a little bit of malice' Date: 11/19/2009 By: John Brummett That 10-year-lad in West Fork, Will Phillips, has become something of a hero. /more/

End of the road Date: 11/19/2009 By: Bob Lancaster One of you readers sent in a question that's beyond my ken, so I passed it along to the sage Assmunch, who's always game for queries, however difficult, unless it's a put-up job by one of these tea-bagger phonys. /more/