Legislative excitment, and other Monday morning happenings
January 12, 2009 Leave a comment
My column in today’s Democrat-Gazette is about the upcoming legislative session and the new legislative era on the way. Find it on the Voices page in the Arkansas section.
Check out my Lynch at Large blog. If there should be any important breaking news, I might have it.
https://lynchatlarge.wordpress.com/
My morning updates 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. You can also hear my early morning headlines on Y-95 in Camden.
My train blog is very popular, so check out Trains for America. (It has a lot more readers from all over the world than my Lynch at Large blog,)
http://trains4america.wordpress.com/
I hope you enjoyed seeing me on KARK TV Channel 4 news yesterday. I guess if Melissa Simas has to work, so do I.
As the legislature prepares to convene the governor expects to request another $50 million to replenish his Quick Action Closing Fund, which was approved during the 2007 session. There is obviously a full agenda. My pal State Rep. Steve Harrelson of Texarkana is blogging it “live” starting today.
A judge is expected to hear testimony today from child welfare officials who say Tony Alamo Christian Ministries punishes children with beatings and from parents who say the allegations are just part of an attempt to destroy their church.
A Fort Smith man who police say may have been intoxicated on narcotics died in a holding cell at the Sebastian County jail a few hours after his arrest.
A Paragould woman has been charged with endangering the welfare of a minor after she took her baby out of a hospital against medical advice. Sherleen D. told the officer she cut the baby’s clothes off, packed her bags and unhooked the IV.
A judge has denied a request for a gag order in the case of four youths charged with the murder of two University of Central Arkansas students at the Conway campus.
The Searcy Fire Department was busy with a feed store warehouse fire that engulfed a building on Booth Street late Sunday evening.
An early Sunday morning fire at a Garland County mobile home left three people dead.
A south Arkansas manufacturing plant that makes compressors will be laying off 100 employees, about a fifth of its work force, company officials announced. Scroll Technologies, employs about 500 workers in Clark County.
A man shot by a Little Rock police officer Friday night was wanted on a warrant charging him with not paying a fine for a previous resisting arrest conviction in North Little Rock, police said.
A Little Rock woman accused of trying to run over a 12-year old neighbor boy was barred Friday from talking to children in her Hillcrest neighborhood and was ordered to undergo a psychiatric exam before she can stand trial.
Yellow Cabs have a new feature, cameras that record what’s happening inside the cab and out on the road.
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