Wednesday Wake Up on Channel 4 and Pat Classic

The Wednesday Wake Up is on this morning at around 6:45 on KARK TV Channel 4. Bill Vickery and I will have the week’s winners and losers.

My morning headlines 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. AND, the entire staff and management at the Lyncho Intergalactic Headquarters welcome 100kw.Y-95 in Camden. You can hear my morning updates all over south Arkansas on this MONSTER FM powerhous

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Electric outages from weekend storms are down to almost 9,000 among Entergy Arkansas customers. Department of Emergency Management says Texans who fled to Arkansas to escape Ike may be eligible for assistance to cover hotel costs.

Right now the Public Service Commission is considering a request from Entergy to add an additional charge. It would recover storm costs that go above the amount already included in rates.

Attorney General Dustin McDaniel issues subpoenas to thirty gas stations that raised their prices during Hurricane Ike. He’s investigating allegations of price gouging. Those stations were turned in by their own customers.

Arkansas’ insurance commissioner is standing by her determination that three insurers that paid Arkansas Surgical Hospital less than they paid other hospitals for the same services didn’t violate the state’s “any willing provider” law.

Insurance Commissioner Julie Benafield Bowman says Arkansans who have an AIG insurance policy need not fear that the company won’t be able to pay claims.

The group opposing an effort to ban unmarried couples from being foster and adoptive parents won’t sue to keep the proposed ban off the Nov. 4 ballot.

More repair work will get under way on the roof of the state Capitol. Total cost of the project is $550,000.

Stephens Media Group columnist Harry King does some math in today’s column and foresees a $10 surcharge on tickets for the Razorbacks at War Memorial. That is how the University might make up the difference between Little Rock and Fayettevillle.

The former U.S. senator and Arkansas governor was honored at a reception and book signing, sponsored by the Political Animals Club and visited by James Carville. The veteran statesman’s autobiography, “A Pryor Commitment,” was released this week as he prepares to take on his new role as chairman of the state Democratic Party.

Officials have begun work on a database of child-care centers located near emergency shelters and are revising licensing standards to require centers to notify parents of shelters available nearb

Little Rock’s Board of Directors established a public facilities board specifically for Heifer International and passed a resolution allowing the 64-year-old hunger-relief organization to issue up to $20 million in revenue bonds to complete the next phase of building its headquarters

China has agreed to partially lift a ban on poultry exports from several U.S. states. The bad news is that the bad is still in effect for Virginia and Arkansas.

Newcomer Jody Carreiro was elected to the Little Rock School Board, and veteran School Board member Katherine Mitchell was re-elected

Ruth Linn of Wooster Elementary School in Greenbrier has been awarded the 2008 Distinguished Teacher in General Education Award for her work as a general education teacher working with children with special needs.

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