Tuesday Pat Classic

My morning updates are on twice every hour form 6 to 9 on K-106.3 The Greatest Hits of All Time with John Lee and Spirit FM with Don Burns on 93.3 and 100.7.

My radio show is on today at 9.

KSMD 99.1 FM – Searcy/Batesville

KWCK 1300 AM – Searcy

KAPZ 710 AM – Bald Knob/Augusta

KAWW 1370 AM – Heber Springs/Clinton

Tomorrow is the Wednesday Wake  Up on KARK TV Channel 4. Tune in or set your VCR for around 6:45 as Bill Vickery and I sort out the week’s winners and losers. It’s a million laughs.

Arkansans go to the polls today and you will get to sign several petitions; including measures on illegal immigrants, gay foster parents, and the lottery. Turnout is expected to be low because our presidential primary was in February.

Nationally, there are primaries in Kentucky and Oregon. Expect a split decision, but Barack Obama could get enough total pledged delegates to wrap up the Democratic nomination today.

Governor Beebe will oppose the initiative to curtain some benefits for illegal immigrants. He says it’s already covered by federal law and too expensive.

The legislative committee that looks after communication and technology has been told that state agencies and universities  probably may not use the Highway Department’s  600 miles of high speed fiber optic cable. The Highway Department has contracts with six telecommunications companies and that might be viewed as competing with private industry.

Lawmakers have been told that redesigning existing parking lots at the state Capitol will be quicker and about $10 million cheaper than building an $11 million parking deck.

Residents of the former Lake View School District plan to ask the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to get their school system back. The district successfully challenged Arkansas’ school-funding system but had to consolidate with a neighboring district.

Newsweek magazine lists Little Rock Central among the best high schools in the country. It’s number 36. Mills  is number 111.

A group representing “several dozen” Texas manufacturers and small businesses is mustering the latest opposition to Southwestern Electric Power Co.’s proposed coal-fired power plant in southwest Arkansas.

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis on Monday ordered a new hearing for a recently paroled state inmate who alleged in a lawsuit that three Pulaski County deputies assaulted him while in the county jail in 2004. The decision reversed a ruling last year to dismiss the case because the statute of limitations had ended.

Divers in Hot Spring county are searching for the body of a teen believed to have drowned in a mining pit Near Magnet Cove.

Dianna Barr, a therapist in Osceola, stands convicted of failing to report a case of child sexual abuse. A 14 year-old patient revealed an encounter with a 24 year-old male. It’s a misdemeanor. $100 fine.

Marmaduke businessman Jack Rondle Pipkin has been found innocent by a federal jury in Little Rock of all nine charges he faced in a second trial stemming from sales of stolen bulldozers, backhoes and other large construction equipment in 2004. He has been acquitted of three similar charges several weeks ago.

Pine Bluff has homicide number six for this year.

A logger discovered skeletal human remains in a shallow grave in Nevada County. There was reportedly a bullet in the head. The body was taken to the State Crime Lab.

Sports Illustrated.com has a big spread on Arkansas quarterback Casey Dick and Bobby Petrinao and his power spread offense. It’s all positive too.

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