Monday, February 27, 2006
Monday morning already ...
Abraham Lincoln Hawkins of Mount Vernon marked his 107th birthday Sunday.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has scheduled two public hearings on Wal-Mart's attempt to open an industrial bank. The hearings will be the first time the regulator has held formal public hearings on a bank application.
Property tax revenue mandated by state lawmakers for schools can’t be used for tax increment financing projects under the 2001 legislation creating the districts, a Washington County Circuit judge ruled Friday.
More Arkansas couples chose or converted to covenant marriages in the first 10 months of 2005 than in the three previous years combined, state health records show.
Arkansas public schools spent at least $85.9 million for athletic programs last year, amounting to about $190 per student, according to a report issued by the Arkansas Department of Education.
Al Davidson will be the new superintendent of schools in Mountain View. He previously served 13 years as superintendent at Atkins, where he was suspended with pay last October after questions arose about expense reports for travel to conferences.
The emergency room of Conway Regional Medical Center was shut down for about seven hours, and 22 people were quarantined Sunday after a patient accidentally (and unknowingly) squirted pepper spray from a key chain into the air, authorities said.
The final steps toward leasing the Forrest City hospital campus to Community Health Systems were completed last week during a pre-closing meeting in Nashville between St. Francis County officials and attorneys representing CHS, which agreed to a $7.5 million, 40-year lease in December after Attentus Health Care was unable to complete a lease agreement with the county. The transfer from Baptist Medical System of Memphis will take place at midnight Tuesday.
The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas says that state environmental officials will consider proposed changes in water quality standards, including one that would allow the damming of Lee Creek in Northeast Arkansas, one of the state’s most pristine waterways.
The Bush administration is requesting more than $2.1 million in its proposed 2007 budget to aid recovery efforts for the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker,
The Game and Fish Commission is considering changes for next year’s deer season. One proposal would increase the statewide deer bag limit from three to four, allowing two bucks and two does with modern guns or muzzle-loaders and up to four does with archery equipment in some deer zones.
Twenty-five more people contacted health officials late last week to say they were sickened in a mid-February salmonella outbreak linked to a Bentonville sushi restaurant.
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Bill of Rights
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
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It is, however, slightly commendable Will and Lynch would remember Amendment Numero Uno as " free speech " usually applies only to words they themselves utter....since neither appear capable of hearing a word spoken by another human soul who does not first massage their hideously puerile egos.
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