Friday Pat Classic 8/15/08

My morning headlines 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.

The radio show is on at 9.

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My column is in Monday’s Democrat-Gazette. Look for me on the Voices page in the Arkansas section.

Searcy police have provided Arkansas Times with two police reports that indicate Timothy Dale Johnson, suspected of slaying Democratic Party chair Bill Gwatney, harassed a Searcy woman in 2004, 2005 and 2006. Reports also state that he was medicated for a mental disorder, had Gwatney’s name on a piece of paper, car keys from his auto dealership, along with a will.

Arkansas dairy farmers are in trouble, and a state panel is considering asking the Legislature to assess a fee on wholesalers to subsidize farmers in the shrinking field.

Arkansas State Police are planning saturation patrols and sobriety checkpoints between now and Labor Day.

Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam, speaking in Little Rock, says the company will keep Alltel Little Rock campus as a regional headquarters after Verizon completes its buyout of Alltel. Today’s Democrat-Gazette says that means the net loss of about one thousand jobs.

Wal-Mart sees evidence of the slowdown in US consumer demand spreading to developing markets as customers deal with increasing food and energy costs. Lee Scott, chief executive, said Wal-Mart was seeing “a global economy that is difficult.” Second quarter profits are up 17%.

A crowd of people left a Mayflower meeting mostly unsatisfied, after a tense two-hour meeting with the developers of a proposed rock quarry. Tempers flared as residents expressed concerns about traffic, pollution and damage to water wells.

ABC-TV says that the McCully Family of Bigelow will receive a new home as part of the “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” television show.

Little Rock School District officials are exploring the possibility of establishing an aerospace-themed charter school for middle school students, similar to an idea first posed nearly two decades ago.

Water customers will pay an extra charge starting in May to help Central Arkansas Water buy land in the Lake Maumelle watershed under a rate increase the utility’s commissioners recommended Thursday.

Pine Bluff police are trying to figure out who set four vacant houses on fire within 2 blocks of each other. It happened within 20 minutes in the University Park area in Pine Bluff early Thursday morning.

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