Sen. Mark Pryor voted with President Bush more often than all but two other Democrats last year and fellow Democratic delegation member Blanche Lincoln wasn’t far behind. Pryor and Lincoln voted for the president’s position on bills nearly half of the time, according to an annual report by Congressional Quarterly, a Washington news organization.
Most taxpayers could expect a rebate of up to $600 starting in mid-May under the economic aid plan set to go through Congress within weeks.
Calling it the most critical presidential election in her lifetime, Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and former President Bill Clinton, urged Arkansas State University students to vote in the Feb. 5 Arkansas primary.
Heifer International announced it had received a four-year, $42.8 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest single grant in Heifer’s 63-year history.
The Mascot Selection Steering Committee reconvenes this week in an effort to kickstart Arkansas State University’s search for a new nickname, mascot and related imagery. The committee will hold a public meeting at 9 a.m. Wednesday in the Chickasaw Room at the ASU Student Union.
The Family Council Action Committee launched a campaign to place a measure banning unmarried, cohabiting couples from adopting children or becoming foster parents on the ballot for November’s general election.
A fundraising consulting firm hired to guide U.S. Marshals Service Museum officials in a national fundraising campaign delivered a message Fort Smith area residents may not want to hear. It will take 18 to 28 months to raise the $25 million to $30 million estimated for the museum.
The caregiver for two Alzheimer’s patients is moving her patients to Rogers before Springdale District Court Judge Stanley Ludwig has her tossed in jail. Judith Hollows, fined $1,250 and threatened with contempt of court at a Jan. 11 hearing, has until Thursday to to have Nona Holm, 86, and Doyle Ward, 82, moved to Rogers.
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