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Pat Lynch: an Arkansas Icon (and very humble too)

Thursday Pat Classic summary 9/18/09

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The state Department of Human Services is conducting a comprehensive review of Arkansas’ foster care program in the wake of high-profile cases involving the deaths and sexual abuse of children in the system as part of a legislative hearing in Conway. Governor Beebe says it’s his top priority.

The Farm Bureau has announced its position on state ballot issues. No to lottery. Yes to prohibiting unmarried couples from giving foster and adoptive homes. Yes to more water bonds for farmers. No to removing archaic language from the Constitution describing people with mental illnesses. No to annual sessions of the legislature.

Rep. Jon Woods of Springdale plans to offer legislation in the 2009 session to restore the primary to its original May date, primarily, he says, for the sake of cost savings. That is in response to the recent February voting.

Game and Fish Commission is putting together an impressive wish list based on projected revenues from natural gas proceeds on wildlife land. Among notable items is reportedly the purchase of 800 acres on the Little Maumelle Creek.

The Arkansas State Medical Board wants to impose more regulations on physicians and nurse practitioners who work together.

An economist with the Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis says the Arkansas economy shows amazing resiliency . It’s especially because of diversity.

A Fayetteville attorney filed a federal lawsuit against the Fayetteville School District alleging district personnel failed to protect a student from physical and online harassment and beatings.

The Pulaski County School District is out of compliance with the school desegregation plan and probably not in a position to be released from federal court supervision, according to federal monitors.

A jury of eight women and four men will continue deliberations today in the case of Little Rock tax lawyer Barry Jewell after the prosecution and defense sparred in closing arguments.

Scott Miller is withdrawing from the race for NLR alderman, Ward 2.

The Peabody Little Rock will fill the hotel’s conference hall with two conventions this weekend. National groups representing editorial writers and the owners of mineral rights will visit Little Rock for their 2008 conventions.

A rocket motor exploded and caused a fire at a weapons factory in East Camden. One employee is confirmed dead.

A Craighead County is facing charges on suspicion of bank robbery — only one month after he was acquitted of robbing the same bank. Oscar Reynolds of Jonesboro also was scheduled to appear in Craighead County Circuit Court on Tuesday to answer to charges of aggravated assault and aggravated robbery in the beating of an elderly Jonesboro woman inside the downtown post office last fall. 

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