Lynch at Large

Ron Silva, who heads Filmore Equity in San Francisco and will soon be running Beverly Nursing Homes in Fort Smith, is concerned about the “business climate” in Arkansas and demands special additional “tort reform” for nursing homes or he will pull the corporate headquarters and 800 jobs out of Arkansas.

Ann Coulter, the conservative commentator who recently called for the assassination of a Supreme Court Justice in Little Rock, will be at the Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville Wednesday evening. College Republicans are among the sponsors.

Today’s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that there may be a petition drive to allow the sale of alcoholic beverages at restaurants in Arkadelphia.

Brian Ingram of Mena plans to sell some of the money from the D. B. Cooper highjacking of a Northwest Airlines flight in 1971. Ingram was eight years old when he found the currency on a river bank in rural Washington state.

The Mayflower School Board has set a millage increase election for April 11. The elementary school has been adding around 100 students each year.

The Arkansas Repertory Theatre is planning a $3.5 million production based on the Designing Women television series for the 2006 – 2007 season, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

James Jeffries remains in a Little Rock hospital after a Friday evening incident in which he ran his vehicle off a capitol city street, clipped a power pole and crashed into a nearby house. Jeffries fled the scene on foot but was returned by an office duty officer and placed in the back seat of a police whch. He subsequently kicked the rear window out of that car and attempted to flee, but restrained him strapping his legs together. Jeffries was placed in a second police car and was shot with a Taser while trying to kick the back window out of that car. It is reported that he tested positive for PCP’s at UAMS.