Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Valentine/Anniversary update
Voters in Pine Bluff will decide on a school millage today. If the measures pass, the cost to taxpayers will be 25-cents a day for the owner of a house valued at $100,000. Patrons are being asked to vote for an additional 4.5 mills for debt service and to extend 10.2 mills reserved for retiring existing indebtedness by 18 years.
The bake sales paid off for Midland. That school district will stay open thanks to patrons generosity and a recently passed millage. Eudora will be merged with Lakeside.
The Fort Smith Board of Directors will review a proposed $168 million bond package today and discuss setting a May 23 election date for voters to decide on its fate. While the package totals about $168 million, voters will be presented five items on the ballot to be voted on separately.
Kelsey Gadberry, a cheerleading captain and homecoming queen at Little Rock Central High School, had a blood alcohol content of 0.282, more than three times the 0.08 legal limit, and cocaine in her system when she crashed her silver Chevy Tahoe on Feb. 2.
Eddie Sutton may have coached his last game, a 35-year career possibly ending six victories short of 800 because of a traffic accident in which he was injured and cited for driving under the influence.
The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas has a story based on its’ Freedom of Informaiton request on an internal investigation into the hiring of a clerk in the Rogers Police Department, despite her admission of drug use and stealing on previous jobs, and having failed one pre-employment lie detector test. Sheila Villalpando is accused of stealing $2,000 in cash fines.
Attorney general candidate Robert Herzfeld called Monday for changes to a state tax-increment financing law that was passed in 2005 and sponsored by another candidate for attorney general, Rep. Dustin McDaniel, D-Jonesboro. Tax-increment financing, or TIF, can be used by city or county governments to divert some of the property taxes to real estate developers.
Seeking to defuse a potential “negative attack” against him, lieutenant governor candidate Tim Wooldridge said he regrets introducing a bill 11 years ago to institute public hangings on courthouse lawns and wouldn’t do it again.
The Conway Log Cabin Democrat reports on Monica Strack, possibly the oldest active volunteer in Arkansas. At 101, Ms. Strack can still be found helping people at the Conway Regional Medical Center.
The bake sales paid off for Midland. That school district will stay open thanks to patrons generosity and a recently passed millage. Eudora will be merged with Lakeside.
The Fort Smith Board of Directors will review a proposed $168 million bond package today and discuss setting a May 23 election date for voters to decide on its fate. While the package totals about $168 million, voters will be presented five items on the ballot to be voted on separately.
Kelsey Gadberry, a cheerleading captain and homecoming queen at Little Rock Central High School, had a blood alcohol content of 0.282, more than three times the 0.08 legal limit, and cocaine in her system when she crashed her silver Chevy Tahoe on Feb. 2.
Eddie Sutton may have coached his last game, a 35-year career possibly ending six victories short of 800 because of a traffic accident in which he was injured and cited for driving under the influence.
The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas has a story based on its’ Freedom of Informaiton request on an internal investigation into the hiring of a clerk in the Rogers Police Department, despite her admission of drug use and stealing on previous jobs, and having failed one pre-employment lie detector test. Sheila Villalpando is accused of stealing $2,000 in cash fines.
Attorney general candidate Robert Herzfeld called Monday for changes to a state tax-increment financing law that was passed in 2005 and sponsored by another candidate for attorney general, Rep. Dustin McDaniel, D-Jonesboro. Tax-increment financing, or TIF, can be used by city or county governments to divert some of the property taxes to real estate developers.
Seeking to defuse a potential “negative attack” against him, lieutenant governor candidate Tim Wooldridge said he regrets introducing a bill 11 years ago to institute public hangings on courthouse lawns and wouldn’t do it again.
The Conway Log Cabin Democrat reports on Monica Strack, possibly the oldest active volunteer in Arkansas. At 101, Ms. Strack can still be found helping people at the Conway Regional Medical Center.
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Pine Bluff's major monument to mediocrity ;a.k.a. The Pine Bluff Commercial has apparently made tons of moolah from pro tax mil ads,has run a 4-part front page series lauding the mil increase, has published scores of favorable letters-to -editor(many ALLEDGEDLY? from students) re.the mil vote and not a single Anti-Mil letter( certinly not One of the Three I penned!
FYI-For just a teeny,tiny sliver of balance consider:
1). The 4.5 mil increase represents a 13.5 % increase in total millage(quite a bite at one chomp) and will catapult P.B. to the upper tier of most tax burdened cities.
2.) The proposal is to put $30 million in the capital improvement coffers.
3). The millage applies to all of ones possessions;not just ones home.
4). The millage has no "Sunset Clause" and will continue long after the $30 million debt is retired. Only a voter referendum can roll it back (not likely in a town where less than a third of the voters show up at the polls)
5). The $30 million may FIX roofs but it will not FIX STUPID or INCOMPETENCE!
FYI-For just a teeny,tiny sliver of balance consider:
1). The 4.5 mil increase represents a 13.5 % increase in total millage(quite a bite at one chomp) and will catapult P.B. to the upper tier of most tax burdened cities.
2.) The proposal is to put $30 million in the capital improvement coffers.
3). The millage applies to all of ones possessions;not just ones home.
4). The millage has no "Sunset Clause" and will continue long after the $30 million debt is retired. Only a voter referendum can roll it back (not likely in a town where less than a third of the voters show up at the polls)
5). The $30 million may FIX roofs but it will not FIX STUPID or INCOMPETENCE!
# posted by 
: 10:39 AM
: 10:39 AM
Dear Amanda,
I am indeed from P.B. and have lived here most of my life. Apparently
you're also tuning in to the insufferably arrogant ego maniac,a.k.a.
Pat Lynch. I tune in to check out what inane topic he'll come up
with...his incredibly boring personal life, railroad tid bits,
libertarian confusion, his occassionally interesting column. ...But
Pat's the best talk show host going---sad is it not? Roy
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I am indeed from P.B. and have lived here most of my life. Apparently
you're also tuning in to the insufferably arrogant ego maniac,a.k.a.
Pat Lynch. I tune in to check out what inane topic he'll come up
with...his incredibly boring personal life, railroad tid bits,
libertarian confusion, his occassionally interesting column. ...But
Pat's the best talk show host going---sad is it not? Roy
# posted by : 3:31 PM
: 3:31 PM
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