Tuesday summary

Thanks for your thank you notes and it is good to be back with you. Does anybody out there understand Microsoft Office? What a goat rope!

Now, some good news. Bill Vickery and I will be special guests on David Sanders AETN program. We will have an EXPANDED does of what you get every Wednesday morning  on KARK TV Channel 4. More details to follow, and set your DVR and tune in tomorrow morning on Channel 4 at 6:45.

My morning updates are on K-106.3 The Greatest Hits of All Time with John Lee and Spirit FM with Don Burns at 93.3 and 100.7.

My radio show is on at 9.

KSMD 99.1 FM – Searcy/Batesville

KWCK 1300 AM – Searcy

KAPZ 710 AM – Bald Knob/Augusta

KAWW 1370 AM – Heber Springs/Clinton

Fort Smith is celebrating three economic announcements: Pradco-Fishing will build a $21 million facility at Fort Chaffee; QualServ Corp will move its corporate headquarters to Fort Smith; and Umarex USA will expand its operations at Fort Smith by moving to a new 65,000-SF facility, also at Fort Chaffee.

Gov. Mike Beebe may ask lawmakers next year to give a windmill-blade maker more time to qualify for a 25-year income tax break.

Gov. Mike Beebe has asked state agency directors to prepare three budget proposals for the coming two fiscal years: one with no increase, one premised on modest growth in spending and another with 7 percent in cuts.

A Senate panel has earmarked $2 million in federal spending to upgrade interchanges along Interstate 540 in Washington and Benton counties.

The state Democratic Party’s refusal to certify Dwayne Dobbins of North Little Rock as a Democratic candidate for state representative may not stand up to a legal challenge, according to Texarkana lawyer and State Rep.. Steve Harrelson.

The National Weather Service says Arkansas has had at least 66 tornadoes so far this year. The Feb. 5 tornado that had a track of 121.84 miles was the longest tornado recorded in Arkansas.

The Army Corps of Engineers has lifted a small-craft advisory for the Arkansas River that has been in effect for months.

Unless it gets tossed because of some legal compliant, you will be able to vote on the lottery in November.

A state Plant Board committee recommended limiting pest control companies’ suspension of some minimum termite treatment standards to no more than 10 percent of their contracts.

A federal agency has ordered Arkansas to stop testing its 49,000 probationers and parolees for drugs, saying the state’s Department of Community Correction lacks the proper certification.

Two Pulaski County sheriff’s deputies will each serve a one-day suspension this week for improperly charging a woman with a crime when she refused to identify herself in March from inside her Gravel Ridge apartment.

It will take more than $200,200 to clean up the mold and bacteria problem at the Pulaski County Juvenile Justice Complex. The quorum court will decide how to pay for the solution today.

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