The newsletter is back! Microsoft Entourage makes me crazy. Period. Thanks to all the kind friends I met at the Arkansas Broadcasters Association convention last week. Who would know that I have so many fans there????
My weekly column is in today’s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on the Voices page in the Arkansas section. I am checking in on the New Yorker cover cartoon on Senator Obama.
My news capsules are on twice an hour at K-106.3 The Greatest Hits of All Time with John Lee and Spirit FM with Don Burns on 93.3 and 100.7.
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Governor Beebe is in the Fort Smith region for three economic developments announcements today. One will be on the old Fort Chaffee site.
Arkansas Public Service Commission Chairman Paul Suskie has returned from Iraq as a JAG officer in the Arkansas National Guard. Suskie is at Camp Shelby in Mississippi and should be released from active duty within the next week. He’ll resume his seat as PSC chairman on Aug. 1.
The Arkansas unemployment rate dropped one-tenth of a percentage point to 5 percent in June. There are 13,200 more employed Arkansas residents since June 2007.
The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals rules the state Department of Correction didn’t violate a pregnant prisoner’s rights in shackling her to a bed until shortly before she gave birth.
The state Democratic Party has blocked former state Rep. Dwayne Dobbins from running as a Democrat for the position he resigned from three years ago to settle a felony sexual assault charge.
The Arkansas Ethics Commission says that a justice of the peace may accept a gratuity for performing weddings as long as it’s $100 or less.
The e-Stem charter schools in the old Gazette building open this morning. There will be new traffic patterns (two-way on Louisiana) and that might create a little confusion.
Helena-West Helena Mayor James Valley lost his right to practice law for 30 days over his representation of a 1999 child support case.
John McCain is bringing his Republican presidential campaign to northwest Arkansas on the 8th of next month.
The Little Rock School District is bracing to tonight’s 10 o’clock news on Channel 7 dealing with employees cell phone use during office hours.
A keeper at the Little Rock Zoo had to have part of her finger amputated after being bitten while feeding the zoo’s new black rhinoceros.
Van Buren teenager Bianca Calloway is still recovering at the Washington Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville from a 16-hour cave-crawling nightmare trapped in a cold, dark cave at Devil’s Den State Park
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