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Coyote_Bandit

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8. I'm quite familiar with Northwest Arkansas

Reply to KamaAina (Reply #6)

Mon May 7, 2012, 02:19 PM

May 2012

Rob Walton has never been referred to as "Sam Walton."

I have to question a reporter that cannot get the name right in a story involving a family of such wealth and prominence. But, hey, the journalists of today sometimes are barely literate and are often largely uninformed about the matters they report. This reporter (and editor) should be frickin embarrassed

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