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Little Rock (Arkansas, United States)

Type: City

Name: Little Rock (Arkansas, United States)

Country: United States

Latitude: 34.720001

Longitude: -92.349998

population: 184,217

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 3 Documents (in Market News)

Verizon Communications Inc

Verizon Cuts Some Employees At Its Regional Headquarters

Verizon Wireless ( NYSE: VZ ) has laid off an undisclosed number of employees in Little Rock, Arkansas, where it had a regional headquarters as part of its $28.1 billion acquisition of Alltel ( NYSE: AT ). A spokeswoman told ArkansasBusiness.com that ... [mocoNews.net - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Verizon Communications Inc, Alltel Corporation, New York Stock Exchange, Little Rock (Arkansas, United States)

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents (in Politics)

Alltel Corporation

Verizon Wireless lays off former Alltel workers

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Verizon Wireless is laying off former Alltel Corp. headquarters workers in Little Rock.Verizon would not put a number to the Thursday layoffs. Spokeswoman Lucie Pathmann said the company is cutting positions that became redundant ... [Washington Post - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Alltel Corporation, Verizon Wireless Inc, Little Rock (Arkansas, United States)

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 21 hours ago - 2 Documents

President Clinton to Skip Arkansas Free Clinic, Blames Olbermann for Politicizing Event

Bill Clinton told FDL’s Eve Gittelson that it would be problematic for him to attend a free medical clinic being held in Little Rock, Arkansas tomorrow because MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann had “politicized” the event.” He indicated that some were turning the ... [Firedoglake - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Blanche Lincoln, Keith Olbermann, Bill Halter

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Ark. cop who used TASER on girl suspended for not having camera - 11/19/2009

Age not a factor in TASER use, Ark. chief saysTASER enters the data (business)Related content sponsored by:LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — An Arkansas police officer who used a stun gun on an unruly 10-year-old girl has been suspended - not for using the TASER but ... [Police One - 11/20/2009]

Entities: stun baton, Little Rock (Arkansas, United States), Federal Bureau of Investigation

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

AAAE's Airport Legislative Alliance staff meets with key lawmaker and congressional staff:

Read here. - More -Supervisor - AirfieldLittle Rock National Airport ... [SmartBrief - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Little Rock (Arkansas, United States)

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)

Blanche Lincoln Could Face Primary Opponent Due To Health Care Opposition

Scroll down for video As Blanche Lincoln keeps the nation -- and Senate Democratic leadership -- waiting to find out whether she'll vote to allow the health care debate to go forward on the floor, her potential primary opponent is organizing ... [The Huffington Post | Full News Feed - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Blanche Lincoln, Health Care, Bill Halter

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Verizon Wireless Inc

Verizon Wireless lays off former Alltel workers

Verizon Wireless Lays off Former Alltel Workers This Article This is a 3rd party supplied news articleWe do not control the adverts on this page Sorry, this 3rd party supplied article requires Javascript to be displayed in full.Verizon Wireless is ... [Cellular-News - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Alltel Corporation, Verizon Wireless Inc, Recruitment, Little Rock (Arkansas, United States)

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Fort Hood, First Mass-Casualty Attack by a Jihadist on U.S. Soil Since 9/11 -- By: Jim Geraghty

During the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing this morning, the RAND Corporation's Brian Jenkins offered a statement as to why the Fort Hood shooting, and the analysis of just what motivated Malik Hasan, weighs so heavily ... [National Review - 11/19/2009]

Entities: jihadist, Fort Hood (United States), Soil, Jim Geraghty

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents

Clinton Presidential Center celebrates fifth anniversary

The celebrated its five-year anniversary. Former President Bill Clinton took part in the ceremonies and spoke to a crowd of 1,000. He challenged everyone to not be "afraid to change with the times." The is home to the William J. Clinton Presidential Library ... [Digital Journal - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Bill Clinton, Little Rock (Arkansas, United States), William J Clinton

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents

AR: Highway funding panel getting closer to recommendations, members say

Arkansas News BureauLITTLE ROCK — Recommendations for new sources of funding for state highway improvements could be ready for review by January, members of the Blue Ribbon Committee on Highway Finance heard today.One likely recommendation will be to ... [Stateline - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Taxes, John 5 (guitarist), Dorado

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents

Ag Chair Schedules Two Field Meetings

Emphasis being placed on revitalizing rural America working together to encourage economic development.Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., the chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee, will hold her committee's first field hearing in her home state of Arkansas, ... [Western Farmer-Stockman - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Agriculture, Blanche Lincoln, Little Rock (Arkansas, United States)

First Reported 15 hours ago - Updated 15 hours ago - 1 Documents

Mississippi State seeking to become bowl eligible

The margin for error is gone at Mississippi State.The Bulldogs need to upset Arkansas, a double-digit favorite, and then Ole Miss, to become bowl eligible for just the second time since the 2000 football season. They'll play Arkansas on Saturday at War ... [Individual.com - 15 hours ago]

Entities: Starkville (Mississippi, United States), Little Rock (Arkansas, United States), University of Mississippi

Quotes

...The Senate is expected to begin debating the legislation, which would include a government-run insurance option, Saturday night. "I want Sens. (Blanche Lincoln and (Mark Pryor to see what health care poverty is really like in Little Rock Olbermann said on his show last month."

Free clinics tied to health care debate [Minneapolis Star Tribune - 11/20/2009]

...'It's tough,' English said. "It's like that show 'Malcolm in the Middle.' But this time, it is kind of Sen. Blanche Lincoln in the middle, in that sense it's been tough on her." A visit to a LittleLittle RockRock brake shop owned by Larry Levy helps illustrates the counterweight to Walker's insistence that Lincoln support the...

2 Arkansas men reflect national health divide [CNN - 11/20/2009]

...Clinton wants visitors who leave the center "to believe that decisions have consequences in real people’s lives,and therefore we should all care about the political system. It matters who does what. Cynicism is not an option.” ArchipreneurNight view of the William J Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, AR. image:59663:0::0imgid = "59663"; Further, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Clinton said he "hoped that the center and the nearby could become places where serious discussion can take place on the nation’s pressing issues of sustainable energy, health care and immigration." Serious discussions have been taking place at the and they will continue. On Nov. 24, for example, accompanied by U S Senator Mark Pryor, Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski will visit the Clinton School to discuss efforts to increase broadband access in America. Previous speakers include CNN's John King, Afghanistan's Ambassor to the United States Said Jawad, Pulitzere Prize-winning journalist Bob Woodward, Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam, and Newsweek editor Eleanor Clift, among many other distinguished speakers. President Clinton told the crowd that: One of the greatest challenges now facing Americans is what seems like an ongoing battle against change, whether it involves health care, the environmentor education. As citizens, we need to be in the change business when our institutions no longer further the purpose they were started for. Clinton added that he "wants his center’s legacy to be that Americans can 'always be forever young' as long as they’re not afraid to change with the times.""

Clinton Presidential Center celebrates fifth anniversary [Digital Journal - 11/20/2009]

Dick Morris, in Little Rock Thursday. From the press release, for the event coming from the 60 Plus Association: "Arkansans are rallying to express their strong concerns that they were represented poorly by their Congressmen and that they do not want the bill to pass in the Senate. The ‘Hands Off My Healthcare' bus will be at each rally, and Dick Morris, political author and commentator, will be speaking at all Thursday, November 19 events."

Numbers Game: Is Health Care Reform Still Worth the (Lower) Costs? [ABC News - 11/19/2009]

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Ag Chair Schedules Two Field Meetings [Western Farmer-Stockman - 11/20/2009]
Free clinics tied to health care debate [Minneapolis Star Tribune - 11/20/2009]
Ark. cop who used TASER on girl suspended for n... [Police One - 11/20/2009]
2 Arkansas men reflect national health divide [CNN - 11/20/2009]
Young girl tasered for kicking policeman [Sky News Australia - 11/20/2009]
Arkansas Blue Cross, Health Advantage Continue ... [BCBS Health Issues.com - 11/20/2009]
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Blogs

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Eve Gittelson Interviews Arkansas Resident Davi... [Firedoglake - 57 mins ago] Blanche Lincoln is still deciding whether she will allow debate on the Senate bill to go forward now that she was successful in getting “abstinence only” funding ...
Behind the Scenes: John King talks about his re... [CNN Political Ticker - 2 hours ago] Embedded video from CNN Video ...
Blanche Lincoln's Moment of Truth [RealClearPolitics - Homepage - 14 hours ago] Joe Conason, SalonOn the very same day that Blanche Lambert Lincoln will finally vote on whether to allow healthcare reform to reach the Senate floor, thousands ...
President Clinton to Skip Arkansas Free Clinic,... [Firedoglake - 21 hours ago] Bill Clinton told FDL’s Eve Gittelson that it would be problematic for him to attend a free medical clinic being held in Little Rock, Arkansas tomorrow because MSNBC’s ...
Verizon Cuts Undisclosed Number Of Employees [MocoNews - 11/19/2009] ... Wireless (NYSE: VZ) has laid off an undisclosed number of employees ...

Audio/Video

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Return to Little Rock [CNN International - YouTube - 46 mins ago]
Return to Little Rock [CNN.com - Video - 2 hours ago]
The man who watered down the public option expl... [Slate Magazine - 11/18/2009]
Jury Chooses Life Sentence in TV Anchor Killing [Associated Press - YouTube - 11/13/2009]
Anchor's Friend on Murder Trial [CBS - YouTube - 11/12/2009]

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