Monday, March 27, 2006
Monday Matters
Mike Anderson is Missouri's new men's basketball coach, following Quin Snyder's resignation last month. Anderson, who led UAB to a 24-9 record and an NCAA tournament appearance this season, is the first black head coach hired on a permanent basis in a major sport at Missouri. He is a former assistant to Nolan Richardson at Arkansas and played for Richardson at Tulsa.
Adam Leadford, who police claim fled to Arkansas after escaping from a Michigan prison and led police on two high speed chases before being shot in the face, says he can't remember the events. He will be held in the Benton County jail on a $250,000 bond. A defendant is entitled to bail unless he or she is charged with capital murder, according to the state constitution.
Two teenagers are dead after losing control of an all-terain vehicle on Ed Edwards Road, just outside of Fayetteville, according to a Washington County Sheriff's Office report. The vehicle apparently went around the corner too fast on the dirt road, ran into an embankment and then hit a tree. Neither teen was wearing a helmet or other safety gear, Green said. There isn't a helmet law for ATVs because they aren't supposed to be driven on roads.
Large-scale irrigation projects, flood control measures and river channeling threaten the remaining areas of the South that could provide a habitat for the endangered ivory-billed woodpecker, scientists said Friday at a conference on Arkansas forests, as reported by the Democrat-Gazette.
Most of the state's lakes and rivers have reached their lowest levels in decades, raising concerns about municipal and industrial water supplies, recreation, hunting, fishing and agriculture, according to the United States Geological Survey.
Only one of Radio Shack's 30 company owned stores will be closed in a nationwide reduction that will see 700 stores shutting down for good. Radio Shack says its' Fort Smith store will cease operations by this summer.
Cox Communications says that, following a major rebuild of its cable plant serving the Russellville and Pottsville areas, the cable company can now increase its capacity by more than 75 channels and add many new programming services to its line-up.
Direct TV's decision to switch its' south Arkansas customers to local stations in Shreveport has residents and one congressman angry. Representative Mike Ross says he is drafting legislation which would allow people to select local channels.
Stephens Media Group reports that Comcast is raising question about the phone company getting in the same business. AT&T should be required to obtain a franchise before offering Internet-based digital television service in central Arkansas, a spokesman for the state's largest cable television provider says. Comcast. does not view the telephone company's planned entry into the entertainment market as a threat to its business but would object to AT&T being allowed to operate under different rules, Comcast Arkansas spokesman Mike Wilson says.
Arkansans are paying nearly 40 cents more at the pump than at this time last year.
Arkansas students in state run colleges can expect to pay higher tuition next fall, according to a report in the Democrat-Gazette.
A Siloam Springs resident called 911 shortly before 1 p.m. Thursday after noticing a briefcase with protruding wires sitting at the end of a driveway in the 100 Block of Hickory Lane in Siloam Springs. The Springdale Bomb Squad, along with two robots, responded and blew up the suspicious object, which contained papers and tattoo equipment.
Adam Leadford, who police claim fled to Arkansas after escaping from a Michigan prison and led police on two high speed chases before being shot in the face, says he can't remember the events. He will be held in the Benton County jail on a $250,000 bond. A defendant is entitled to bail unless he or she is charged with capital murder, according to the state constitution.
Two teenagers are dead after losing control of an all-terain vehicle on Ed Edwards Road, just outside of Fayetteville, according to a Washington County Sheriff's Office report. The vehicle apparently went around the corner too fast on the dirt road, ran into an embankment and then hit a tree. Neither teen was wearing a helmet or other safety gear, Green said. There isn't a helmet law for ATVs because they aren't supposed to be driven on roads.
Large-scale irrigation projects, flood control measures and river channeling threaten the remaining areas of the South that could provide a habitat for the endangered ivory-billed woodpecker, scientists said Friday at a conference on Arkansas forests, as reported by the Democrat-Gazette.
Most of the state's lakes and rivers have reached their lowest levels in decades, raising concerns about municipal and industrial water supplies, recreation, hunting, fishing and agriculture, according to the United States Geological Survey.
Only one of Radio Shack's 30 company owned stores will be closed in a nationwide reduction that will see 700 stores shutting down for good. Radio Shack says its' Fort Smith store will cease operations by this summer.
Cox Communications says that, following a major rebuild of its cable plant serving the Russellville and Pottsville areas, the cable company can now increase its capacity by more than 75 channels and add many new programming services to its line-up.
Direct TV's decision to switch its' south Arkansas customers to local stations in Shreveport has residents and one congressman angry. Representative Mike Ross says he is drafting legislation which would allow people to select local channels.
Stephens Media Group reports that Comcast is raising question about the phone company getting in the same business. AT&T should be required to obtain a franchise before offering Internet-based digital television service in central Arkansas, a spokesman for the state's largest cable television provider says. Comcast. does not view the telephone company's planned entry into the entertainment market as a threat to its business but would object to AT&T being allowed to operate under different rules, Comcast Arkansas spokesman Mike Wilson says.
Arkansans are paying nearly 40 cents more at the pump than at this time last year.
Arkansas students in state run colleges can expect to pay higher tuition next fall, according to a report in the Democrat-Gazette.
A Siloam Springs resident called 911 shortly before 1 p.m. Thursday after noticing a briefcase with protruding wires sitting at the end of a driveway in the 100 Block of Hickory Lane in Siloam Springs. The Springdale Bomb Squad, along with two robots, responded and blew up the suspicious object, which contained papers and tattoo equipment.
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I noted with interests Ardemgaz columnist, Pat Lynch's latest cotribution to the public discourse.
As usual, Pat expounds on the obvious when he excoriates our state lawmakers' intent to forbid religious cretins from demonstating at funerals. Pat rightly observes such foolishness would undoubtedly violate our constitutional rights.
However, efforts by our hideously moronic legislators from engaging in fruitless activity which will eventually prove harmless could have a disasterous unintended effect.
It could "free-up" just enough of their time that they could do something really stupid!
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As usual, Pat expounds on the obvious when he excoriates our state lawmakers' intent to forbid religious cretins from demonstating at funerals. Pat rightly observes such foolishness would undoubtedly violate our constitutional rights.
However, efforts by our hideously moronic legislators from engaging in fruitless activity which will eventually prove harmless could have a disasterous unintended effect.
It could "free-up" just enough of their time that they could do something really stupid!
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