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              “The presidential election                                            “It is illogical that


              season already looms as an                                            a 20-year-old can


              exhausting, soul-sucking                                              drive the 500 miles


              proposition. It becomes even                                          from San Francisco
                                                                                    to San Diego, but

              more so with the certainty                                            not the 8 miles


              that we’ll have to endure it                                          from Memphis,


              without Jon Stewart.”                                                 Tennessee to


              —TV critic of the San Francisco Chronicle David wiegand on comedian and TV host   West Memphis,
              Jon Stewart’s exit from his 16 years on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show
                                                                                    Arkansas.”

           “Roads and bridges aren’t                                                —American Trucking Associations

                                                                                    president and CEo Bill graves
           free, and they’re certainly                                              supporting a bill to lower the
                                                                                    professional truck driving legal age
           not cheap, yet Congress has                                              from 21 to 18

           been operating under the

           assumption that pennies                                                        I will create


           might fall from heaven.”                                                    jobs like you’ve


           —American Trucking Associations president Bill graves while making a case for   never seen. I will
                                                                                       be the greatest
           raising the federal fuel tax
             “The climate in Washington                                                 job-producing

                                                                                        president that
                 is chaotic at times and                                             God ever created.


            anything but regular order.”                                            —2016 Republican presidential



                                                                                    candidate Donald Trump before his
                                                                                    appearance at the Arkansas Republican
          —u.s. rep. steve womack (R-Ark.) at the Bentonville-Bella Vista Chamber of
          Commerce’s Business Matters breakfast on how the appropriations bill was hijacked  Party’s annual Reagan Rockefeller
                                                                                    fundraising dinner in hot Springs, Ark.

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