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The weekly column is in Monday’s Democrat-Gazette and I am taking aim at Illinois political corruption. Look for me in the Arkansas section on the Voices page.
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Two lawmakers propose repealing the presidential primary on the first Tuesday in February. The legislation filed ahead of next year’s session would move the presidential primary back to the third week in May, when other primaries for state races are held.
Arkansas’ highest court has ruled that a law allowing no-bid contracts on some construction projects is constitutional.
The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality issued an emergency order forbidding Fayetteville Shale Land Farms, LLC, near Carlisle, from accepting any more water used in the natural gas drilling process.
Home sales fell 19 percent in October, according to the latest report from the Arkansas Realtors Association. The biggest drop in home sales took place in Sebastian County, with sales falling 22.7 percent from the sale month last year, followed by Pulaski County, where home sales dropped 21.8 percent.
Cooper Tire and Rubber Co. has reached a tentative agreement for a new contract with unionized workers at its Texarkana plant as it continues plans to close one of its U.S. facilities.
Bank of American will lay off 35,000 over the next three years.
Zachariah Marcyniuk will be sentenced to death in a Fayetteville court room later today for the stabbing death of University of Arkansas student Katie Wood March 9. Wood was a senior English major from Greenbriar.
A skinny Miller County inmate who calls himself “Fast Black” is back behind bars Thursday after 12 days on the lose. The escape was Demarcus Lamar Cooks’ third from the troubled Texarkana lockup. He was arrested at a Texarkana home late Wednesday. Cook is 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighs 150 pounds.
The 82 absentee ballots that were confiscated by the State Police following last month’s general election may now be handled by FBI investigators following an order by Circuit Judge Harvey Yates.
The Jefferson County Election Commission will refer six absentee ballots to the prosecuting attorney’s office after determining voter fraud was likely attempted.
Elizabeth Jenkins (Betty) Rutherford, reputed to be Arkansas’s second oldest resident, died in Batesville at 110. She was the grandmother of Skip Rutherford, confidant of President Clinton, founder of Political Animals and now dean of the Clinton School of Public Service.
The Little Rock School District needs to cut $10 million dollars by next school year, when enrollment is expected to drop by 1,000. Combining school bus routes, shortening teacher contracts, and charging for pre-k classes are some of the options discussed. No action was taken at last night’s budget work session.
Little Rock received a slight reprieve for its budget woes Thursday after the Advertising and Promotion Commission agreed to fund $600,000 the city typically spends on marketing the River Market and local cultural centers.
Plans to soften a much-criticized water sculpture in front of the federal courts building in downtown Little Rock moved forward Thursday with the release of computer-generated images showing how the area might look in five years.
Thanks to Linda Caillouet and the Democrat-Gazette for the heads up on this one. Renea Maxwell is accused of embezzling more than $100,00 from UCA’s Oxford American magazine and she is now secretary of the Pulaski Tech student government association.
Planning for Riverfest, Linda Caillouet’s especially rich column today tells us that Friday night features the 1980s new-wave party-hearty band the B-52s. That’s Memorial Day weekend 2009.
Big weekend of high school football at War Memorial
3-A Charleston Tigers v. Fountain Lake Cobras 7 tonight
2-A Junction City v. Des Arc Saturday 6:30
4- A Shiloh Christian v. Pine Bluff Dollarway Saturday noon
Join me and Bill Vickery for the WEDNESDAY WAKE-UP around 6:45 every Wednesday morning on KARK TV Channel 4. We pick winners and losers from the past week and comment on the day's top news. Sometimes we play rough, but it is always a million laughs.
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