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July 8, 2004

Vol 2 • No 25

Main Street revival

A series of recent property acquisitions on Main Street in downtown Little Rock can be traced to financier Warren Stephens, and sources close to the transactions confirm that they are part of a $100 million strategy to transform the neighborhood.

Forgotten freedoms

I was putting out our old American flag Sunday morning when it occurred to me that a lot of the things in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution aren't getting much attention these days.

Working P.E. out

Nicholas Alexander, a rising senior at Bentonville High School, is 8th in his class and captain of the swim team. He's shooting for top colleges - Washington University, Loyola and Northwestern - and has designed his course schedule with that in mind.

We'll still have music

We were discussing last week the lack of outdoor concerts in the Little Rock area, one of the key reasons being that the promoters who deal mostly in this area (this includes Memphis) prefer to put their shows indoors.

You signed, didn't you?

Downtown dreaming

Warwick Sabin's cover story this week is big news, short on specifics and timetables though it is. He got confirmation that a flurry of recent downtown real estate acquisitions were backed by Warren Stephens, the second-generation leader of the billion-dollar-plus financial empire founded by his father and uncle.

The 'world's best paper'

President Clinton settled a few scores with media folks in his book "My Life," although a few barbs in a fat autobiography years later is not quite tit for tat for the damage done his presidency in the heat of the Whitewater investigations.

Summer lore

You never felt like it had really been summer until one of you had been bit by a poisonous snake, and another one of you had cut the little X's over the fang marks and sucked out the venom, nearly killing both of you but providing everybody else with a good laugh. I've got so many of those little X-scars on my calves that they look like those barbed-wire tattoos. They form a kind of coded script that serves as my take-along summertime diary.

Everybody must get 'Stoned'

Cold Stone Creamery dishes up the goodies.

Working P.E. out

For at least 30 years, Bentonville High School has considered participation in a sport equal to a semester of PE. Though it's had several audits over the years, the school district learned for the first time in March that it's practice did not comply with state department standards.
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