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Gov. Mike Beebe says giving schools $112 million for high fuel prices and teacher insurance costs would be difficult given the uncertainty of the economy.
The University of Central Arkansas was not the first school to break the law when it took out lines of credit without getting state approval. The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock also have had temporary lines of credit since a 1987 statute began requiring schools to get state approval for such loans.
Arkansas Times blog is asking why AETN apparently has not set up a televised debate between Green Senate candidate Rebekah Kennedy and Senator Mark Pryor. Kennedy showed up at the Political Animals Club asking the Senator yesterday.
Franklin County is scrambling to reprint paper ballots that incorrectly list Green Party candidate Rebekah Kennedy as a Republican.
Attorney General Dustin McDaniel says Dwayne Dobbins waited too long to file his lawsuit to get on the ballot to regain his state legislative seat in North Little Rock. Hearing is set at 10 a.m. Friday in Judge Chris Piazza’s court.
Fewer young people in Arkansas are smoking cigarettes, but the age at which they first try alcohol is earlier than the national average. The annual Arkansas Prevention Needs Assessment Survey found that young people in Arkansas last year tried alcohol for the first time at 12.6 years, compared to a national average of 13.2 years.
Statewide home sales fell 16.8% in July and 21% in August.
The Federal Communications Commission has announced for its next meeting on Nov. 4 a tentative agenda that includes a vote on the Verizon-Alltel merger.
Roby Brock’s BizBlog at TalkBusiness.net is following a two day meeting in Oklahoma City for One of the biggest investors in the Fayetteville Shale play. Chesapeake Energy will lower its capital spending over the next two years by another $1.5 billion. That’s in addition to a $3.2 billion reduction announced in late September.
A Dallas-based health-care company broke ground for a 130,000-square-foot hospital in Conway, about three miles from the existing Conway Regional Medical Center. Central Heart and Surgical Hospital is expected to open in mid-2010.
Paul Reinhart Inc. of Richardson, Texas, one of the country’s largest cotton merchants, filed for bankruptcy protection Wednesday, and immediately East Cotton Co. of Marion and more than 200 farmers across five states sued the company and its banks.
A Jefferson County jury convicted a drunken driver of four counts of negligent homicide in the February deaths of a Boone County grandmother and her grandchildren, and the judge imposed the jury’s recommended sentence of 32 years in prison and $40,000 in fines for Stephen Williams of Bryant. He could be on parole in five years.
The informant who led Jacksonville police to woods in the city’s industrial park where a woman’s body was discovered is now charged with the woman’s murder. Ronald Dale Charles of Cabot says he may be involved in 15 other murders.
Searcy Mayor Belinda LaForce has changed the locks on the absent clerk/treasurer’s office amid security concerns and an alderman filed a request under the state’s Freedom of Information Act Friday that covered 14,453 e-mails in a city hall dispute that continues to grow.
A Benton alderman is asked to resign for making racially inappropriate comments
Arkansas highway officials say Frazier Pike in Little Rock is not part of the state highway system, which clears the way for city directors to close a section of the road in an industrial area despite complaints from nearby farmers and residents.
Whatever happened to Tom Dalton? The former Little Rock city manager is leading an outfit called Innovate Arkansas. They are active helping business folks develop and market new products and services. He spoke in Pine Bluff earlier this week.
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