Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Tuesday Sunrise
Amy Schlesing’s leads this morning’s Democrat-Gazette with this one. Arkansas spent more than $37.7 million helping the victims of Hurricane Katrina in the past six months, of which the Federal Emergency Management Agency has reimbursed $27.4 million.
The New York Times reports that the Bush administration is poised to approve an innovative health insurance program, proposed by Arkansas, for 80,000 low-income uninsured people in Arkansas. The employer-based program is novel in two ways. The benefit package is extremely limited, much more austere than Medicaid's. In addition, if an employer wants to participate, it must guarantee that all its employees, regardless of income or other factors, will be covered.
Also in today’s Times, under assault as never before, Wal-Mart is increasingly looking beyond the mainstream media and working directly with bloggers, feeding them
exclusive nuggets of news, suggesting topics for postings and even inviting them to visit its corporate headquarters.
KFSM reports the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians and Fort Smith businessman Bennie Westphal have entered an agreement to build a casino on the downtown riverfront.
The 32nd Annual Governor’s Conference concludes today in Jonesboro with an address from Governor Huckabee.
University of Arkansas administrators have removed a popular and controversial teacher from the classroom. Kabin Thomas says he was forced out of the classroom and placed on special assignment because of his eccentric classroom antics that included cursing and talking about controversial topics.
Georgia computer store owner Charles Smith is in in a legal battle with Wal Mart to sell t-shirts and coffee mugs that lampoon the Bentonville retail giant. It all started when Wal mart filed a petition to cease and desist in Atlanta federal court. Smith has enlisted Ralph Nadar and Public Citizen in the free speech case.
Paron Schools will remain open for now while Bryant officials search for another district that might want to take over the district.
Nearly six years after the murder of a Mississippi County woman near the Lester community in eastern Craighead County. Liz Stacy, a reporter with Court TV, is in Northeast Arkansas with a film crew to film an upcoming program on the death of Amanda Tusing of Dell.
Cedric Willis is free after serving 12 years for murder in a Mississippi prison. Willis, who wrote a letter to the National Innocence Project last year, was freed because of DNA evidence his jury never heard and questions about the accuracy of a police photo lineup that can no longer be found.
The New York Times reports that the Bush administration is poised to approve an innovative health insurance program, proposed by Arkansas, for 80,000 low-income uninsured people in Arkansas. The employer-based program is novel in two ways. The benefit package is extremely limited, much more austere than Medicaid's. In addition, if an employer wants to participate, it must guarantee that all its employees, regardless of income or other factors, will be covered.
Also in today’s Times, under assault as never before, Wal-Mart is increasingly looking beyond the mainstream media and working directly with bloggers, feeding them
exclusive nuggets of news, suggesting topics for postings and even inviting them to visit its corporate headquarters.
KFSM reports the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians and Fort Smith businessman Bennie Westphal have entered an agreement to build a casino on the downtown riverfront.
The 32nd Annual Governor’s Conference concludes today in Jonesboro with an address from Governor Huckabee.
University of Arkansas administrators have removed a popular and controversial teacher from the classroom. Kabin Thomas says he was forced out of the classroom and placed on special assignment because of his eccentric classroom antics that included cursing and talking about controversial topics.
Georgia computer store owner Charles Smith is in in a legal battle with Wal Mart to sell t-shirts and coffee mugs that lampoon the Bentonville retail giant. It all started when Wal mart filed a petition to cease and desist in Atlanta federal court. Smith has enlisted Ralph Nadar and Public Citizen in the free speech case.
Paron Schools will remain open for now while Bryant officials search for another district that might want to take over the district.
Nearly six years after the murder of a Mississippi County woman near the Lester community in eastern Craighead County. Liz Stacy, a reporter with Court TV, is in Northeast Arkansas with a film crew to film an upcoming program on the death of Amanda Tusing of Dell.
Cedric Willis is free after serving 12 years for murder in a Mississippi prison. Willis, who wrote a letter to the National Innocence Project last year, was freed because of DNA evidence his jury never heard and questions about the accuracy of a police photo lineup that can no longer be found.
