I’m back. A good funeral, almost 94 years well-remembered plus a rare gathering of extended family. Rounding up notes from a full in-box:

* XNA NOTE LEADS TO SEARCH: A suspicious note found in a Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport bathroom led to search of a plane in the Charlotte airport and closure of the bathroom.

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* MASS TRANSIT: The Brookings Institute has a new study out on how well the top 100 metro areas serve workers with mass transit service. The Little Rock are comes in at 66.

* HUCKSTER HISTORY: Mike Huckabee’s new venture to sell right-wing oriented kids history videos is getting panned all over the place. Typical is Salon.

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In case you’re curious, there is no hint of Franklin Roosevelt in the World War II video:

These are a million times better than Newt Gingrich’s endless series of documentaries about the pope or whatever. Also it really looks like Mike Huckabee is not running for president, because I don’t think presidents need such bizarre moneymaking schemes? He’s like a male evangelical Lucy Ricardo, this guy.

Or how about Huffington Post?

Were you absent the day your history teacher informed the class that the Reagan Revolution was powered by a divine intervention from God? Did you fall asleep during the lesson on black, unemployed people who, at one time, completely lacked ethics? Don’t worry — Mike Huckabee has made a tool to school your entire family on these subjects.

* DEATH IN THE FOREST: Care to read a flat police narrative of what sounds like a cold-blooded killing? Try this arrest warrant affidavit for a man wanted for killing a woman in Garland County.

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* UAMS OPINION SURVEY: Faculty members at UAMS have received results of a survey asking ratings on research, clinical work, leadership and other components of the institution’s mission. Some strength, some weaknesses, the summary indicates.

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