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Check out my column in Monday’s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. I am on the Voices page in the Arkansas section. This week, I am on what McCain has said and what Obama should have said.
Little Rock reported a record-breaking month of tax collections in March, when central Arkansas hosted the NCAA Tournament, up 9 percent from March 2007.
The Stuttgart Daily Leader reports the tornado ravaged down is being swarmed by crooks. A Tree Trimming service was asked to leave town for price gouging, two men were arrested for stealing copper. Another man was trying to sell the free FEMA tarps posing as a contractor.
A Los Angeles judge says that Countrywide Financial must face a lawsuit led by the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System and other shareholders. ATRS and other shareholders allege insider trading among executives, breach of fiduciary duties, corporate waste and misleading of investors.
Arkansas has fallen a notch to 50th in the nation in the percentage of residents older than 25 with a bachelor’s degree, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Delta economic development advocates asked lawmakers to prioritize a four-lane highway connecting interstates 40 and 55. The link between Brinkley and Batesville, Miss., would create a four-lane highway from Little Rock to Atlanta and would serve as a southern bypass around Memphis.
The natural gas severance tax increase enacted last month is projected to raise $20 million in fiscal 2009, which starts July 1. The increase, which takes effect Jan. 1, goes to road improvements.
Surging gas prices could force private transportation companies to cut services to thousands of disabled and elderly Arkansans who live in rural areas.
Air Midwest will end Essential Air Service - a government program that subsidizes carriers for operating at small airports. For Arkansas, that means operations at Little Rock, Hot Springs, Harrison, El Dorado and Jonesboro, will cease on June 30.
Tuition at Arkansas Tech University will increase 5 percent beginning with the summer term.
An attorney for a taxpayers group told the Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday that the Little Rock School Board did not have the constitutional authority last year to approve a $635,000 buyout of Superintendent Roy Brooks’ contract.
Two AME ministers are in court against their bishop saying they did not get sufficient notice of their reassignment. The bishop says it is a church dispute and the court should not be involved. The ministers say they are enforcing their contracts. The judge is also a Presbyterian minister.
Superior Sewing will expand its Salem facility creating 70 new jobs.
Traffic is likely to start rolling across the new Mississippi River bridge at Greenville in two years. Mississippi transportaion officials are expressing concern about declining revenues caused by rising gas prices.
A recent study from the University of Arkansas says a mouthful: The average diner underestimates his or her calorie count by up to 93 percent when eating out. So every time you step through a restaurant door, you may be consuming twice what you bargained for.
The Little Rock Film Festival continues. LittleRockFilmFestifal.org.
West Point celebrates its 150th birthday Saturday.
It’s picklefest time in Adkins. Miss Dill Pickle and Miss Sweet Pickle will be selected among many gala events starting today.
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