Snarky Media Report

A 1991 conviction for a felony charge of Theft by Deception makes her ineligible  Janice Hicks is running for the Ward 1 seat on the El Dorado, AR City Council. Hicks is ineligible to hold any elected office in the state of Arkansas due to a 1991 conviction for Theft by Deception. Hicks was able to get her felony records sealed in 2024, but she is still barred from holding any elected office. Hicks filed a petition to seal her conviction in November 2024. Union County Circuit Court Judge David Graham signed an order on November 25, 2024. Under Article 5, Section 9 of the Arkansas Constitution, any person convicted of embezzlement of public money, bribery, forgery, or any other "infamous crime" is permanently ineligible to hold or run for elected office in the state. Infamous crimes in Arkansas includes any felony or misdemeanor involving deceit, fraud, or false statement.  Hot check convictions under the Arkansas Hot Check Law have been repeatedly classified as crimes of dece...

  On May 19th, a LRSD Central High employee sent us a video of a white teacher bodyslamming a Black female student. Based on information provided to us, two Black female student were fighting and two teachers intervened. In the video one teacher can be observed to be restraining one of the girls and the other teacher grabs the other girl, lifts her up into the air and slams her onto the floor. Then he can be seen standing over her as a LRPD School Resource Officer ("SRO") arrives.  After we posted the video on social media outlets, another Central High employee contacted us and gave us his name - Jason McCann and that the student he attacked was a 9th grader. They also told us that Nancy Rousseau, the long in the tooth Central High Principal recently forced into retirement, was trying to keep the incident secret. That teacher also told us that McCann had been involved in another student violence incident recently. McCann attacked a Black male student over the student's us...

NLR Mayor Hartwick likes to squeeze teenage girls "fat rolls" North Little Rock Mayor Terry Hartwick is no stranger to scandals.  When he was mayor back in the 1980's he was fooling around with a teenager that was working as an intern and spent hundreds of dollars on telephone calls talking to her when she was a student as the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. His entanglement with that UAF student, Gina Fortenberry, caused his wife at the time to divorce him in 1987. Hartwick was almost 40 at that time. That scandal and another involving payoffs caused his trouncing defeat in the 1988 NLR mayoral election to Patrick Henry Hays (Hays received 63% of the votes to Hartwick's 37%). Here's the tea about Hartwick's entanglement with that teenage summer intern (from a interview in October 2000 of John Woodruff, who had been a reporter with the Arkansas Gazette that covered news in NLR). Let's jump back to the present time. The North Little Rock Chamber of ...

Thanks to a tipster, we were able to obtain public records that expose Arkansas State Police Trooper Michael Austin Kennedy as a racist. Records filed in the divorce proceedings Kennedy's wife has filed give shocking information what Trooper Kennedy thinks about People of Color. In amended filings, Trooper Kennedy's estranged wife states that he is a white supremacist and fears for the safety of their children. And it's no surprise that Trooper Kennedy is a registered Republican. Have the racist views expressed by Trooper Kennedy influenced his actions as a law enforcement officer?  Has Trooper Kennedy PIT maneuvered People of Color to try and kill them to rid his racist white Christian world of folks he considers inferior?  The ASP administration thinks Trooper Kennedy is roll model for their agency. As we often say, the klan ALWAYS outs themselves. Kennedy was with the Bryant Police Department before joining the ASP in 2021. We sent the court filing to the ASP and asked f...

An "unprofessional" relationship between a Parkview student, Justin Lanier and a teacher Kendahl Davenport was the talk of the town this week  ________ We were contacted by a LRSD employee/whistleblower over the weekend and broke this story on April 13, 2026 at 7:43 a.m. Other media outlets saw our post and scrambled to catch up. Our post about this on social media and other news outlet regurgitating it sent LRSD into a tailspin and the superintendent issued a statement. LRSD attempted to spin the story with little success. We submitted AFOIA requests to LRSD for copies of personnel files and records regarding applicants for the position that Davenport was hired to fill. Other news outlets continued to post stories. And they specifically referenced our April 13th social media post that broke the story and indicated that it going viral was problematic for the school district. Unrelenting pressure on LRSD from news media and citizens forced the superintendent to issue another s...