Kristin Netterstrom Higgins

Rev. Jesse Jackson to be laid to rest at Oak Woods Cemetery, 'part of the city's unrivaled historic fabric' The 173-year-old cemetery — solemn, historic and picturesque — will be the final resting place of the Rev. Jesse Jackson this week.

Today's column looks at what will be the final resting place of the Rev. Jesse Jackson: 19th Century landscape designer Adolph Strauch's solemn and picturesque Oak Woods Cemetery on the city's South Side.

Workshop on Investigating Prison Book Bans In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn how to request records, clean up data and shed light on carceral book bans.

The Marshall Project is offering a workshop on investigating book bans on the 18th. If this is something you're interested in or want to learn more about, here's the info --> www.themarshallproject.org/events/works...

After Detention, Families Stranded in Border Town Face Harrowing Journey Home Parents and children from a detention center in Texas found themselves dropped at a border town shelter with few means to leave.

Moving immigration abductees far from home as soon as possible is designed to cut them off from family, friends, and community resources. It also means that when people are released, it's into a strange place with no help—and people are rising to meet that need around camps like Dilley.

Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
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Starting to think a lot of people don’t know what a primary is.

There is opposition. In November. This was a party primary.

There is democratic opposition in the November election. This was a primary.

Because the Republican Party wouldn’t let the incumbent governor have any inter-party opposition. Most primary elections work that way.

This is the primary. She has opponents in November.

And ready in 10 minutes. So good.

National news predicting Arkansas governor wins the primary… um, she didn’t have any opposition.

Two large pizzas in the front seat of a car. Election night is pizza night even when you haven’t been in a newsroom for 14 years.

Frozen fish didn’t feel right tonight.

Loose plate holder leads to errant traffic stop over Flock camera stolen vehicle hit | Arkansas Democrat Gazette A Sherwood police officer will receive more training after he mistakenly pulled over a driver at gunpoint last month based on a false hit by a Flock Safety license plate reader that reported the…

Arkansas police officer pulls gun, cuffs driver after automated license plate reader mistakenly flags SUV as stolen. The officer is being sent for additional training - which rather ignores a larger point about the wisdom of outsourcing law enforcement to robots.
#arpx #arnews

Man who died of perforated bowel in Batesville jail pleaded for help for months, lawsuit claims - Arkansas Times Attorneys for his family say Jeffrey Hightower had been complaining of rectal bleeding and pain, and requesting medical attention both verbally and in writing, for two months before his death.

Arkansas jail inmate with mental health issues died from a perforated bowel after pleading for two months to get treatment for rectal bleeding and pain, lawsuit alleges. @indoctrinatrix.bsky.social reports in @arktimes.bsky.social
#Arkansas #arpx #arnews

Interesting. Our counties have switched to vote centers over precincts except for the largest county because of $$$

Happy birthday a day late!

Gas at the local gas station has gone up 75 cents since the weekend.

THE EVOLUTION OF FEMALE RAP
(1979 - 1999)

Happy Women’s History Month

Exactly. Twice today I googled someone’s name because it could end in ey or ay, and I didn’t want to get it wrong.

DOJ's recent 6th Circuit filing misspelled:

Voters as “Votors”
Emergency as "Emeregency"
United States as "United Staes"

And, it included a non-party in the caption.

These are the people who want access to your sensitive voting records and who my team fights in court every day.

My editor used to spell my name with an e instead of an i. It got to the point I would hit reply and just type an i and hit send.

Right?! Also, I can’t even understand half the descriptions of 1970s IT lingo.

An old resume form the late 1970s showing the applicant’s date of birth, marital status (married with one child) and his health (excellent)

Apparently back in the 1970s you put your marriage and health status on your resume?? Or at least the resume my aunt sent me that was my late father’s marks he was married with one child and was in excellent health. So HR many laws broken…

As Arkansas weighs a prison book ban, formerly incarcerated readers share how books reshaped their lives - Arkansas Times Arkansas is considering the strictest book ban in the country, which would forbid all outside books, magazine and newspapers from being sent directly to people in prison. To understand what’s at stake...

As Arkansas weighs a prison book ban, formerly incarcerated readers share how books reshaped their lives arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

Bills that would classify abortion as homicide fizzle, while pill crackdowns advance • Wisconsin Examiner Bills to punish women for getting abortions and to ban medication abortion are circulating in state legislatures

Abortion Policy Bills that would classify abortion as homicide fizzle, while pill crackdowns advance wisconsinexaminer.com/2026/03/02/r...

I’ve done the online masters and am now doing an in person PhD (6 hours of driving a week, ugh).

I think it’s the rare school that can pull off an online program well. Even being a part time PhD student I am missing out on the connections ft phds are experiencing with faculty.

What are we doing here?

‘I Just Stood Up’: The Stunning Arrest Of Aliya Rahman At The State Of The Union Rahman, who was Rep. Ilhan Omar’s guest, suspects she was targeted after testifying to Congress about her brutal ICE detention in Minneapolis.

NEW, from me: I talked to Aliya Rahman, who was dragged out of Tuesday's State of the Union + arrested for... standing up.

Really.

Rahman, who is autistic and has disabilities, was a guest of Rep. Ilhan Omar + was previously brutally detained by ICE in Minneapolis. www.huffpost.com/entry/aliya-...

A U.S. scholarship thrills a teacher in India. Then came the soul-crushing questions She was thrilled to become the first teacher from a government-sponsored school in India to get a Fulbright exchange award to learn from U.S. schools. People asked two questions that clouded her joy.

She was thrilled to become the first teacher from a government-sponsored school in India to get a Fulbright exchange award to learn from U.S. schools. People asked two questions that clouded her joy.