Thursday, April 20, 2006
Stormy Thursday Morning
DEVELOPING ... KATV Channel 7 is reporting that TWO PEOPLE ARE HOSPITALIZED THIS MORNING...AFTER A MAN WALKED INTO A PINE BLUFF TYSON PLANT WITH TWO SEMI-AUTOMATIC HAND GUNS. AUTHORITIES SAY THE SUSPECT, JULIUS ENGLISH, BEGAN FIRING THE WEAPONS INTO A CROWD OF WORKERS. THIS ALL HAPPENED AROUND 10 O'CLOCK LAST NIGHT IN THE INDUSTRIAL PART OF THE PLANT.
The legislative plan to meet Friday is still “on.” There reportedly has been discussion of alternatives for funding a school science program, but lawmakers are still looking at an attempted veto override of a half-million dollars spending bill from the most recent special session.
A special task force of the Faculty Senate at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville has found that grades are going up steadily and there are instances of “grade inflation” on the northwest Arkansas campus. According to the Morning News of Northwest Arkansas students received the grade of A in almost 45 percent of their classes in 2004, compared to about 35 percent in 1994.
The state Board of Parole is recommending that Gov. Mike Huckabee grant executive clemency to a murderer who the governor came close to setting free nearly two years ago. Dennis L. Lewis was convicted of capital murder in the death of Springdale paDEVELOPING ... wnshop owner J.J. Cobb during a 1974 robbery when Lewis was 17.
An execution date could be set soon for Don Davis, who was convicted in the 1990 execution-style murder of a Rogers woman. Matt DeCample, a spokesman for the Attorney General's Office, said Wednesday the U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to hear an appeal regarding the Davis case.
A large group of Decatur students protested outside the high school Wednesday to say they don't feel safe without a police officer on the campus. Students say they want the district's superintendent to answer questions about why the district's resource officer was removed. Police Chief Terry Luker says school administrators haven't taken some incidents seriously and are not listening to employees' concerns about safety.
According to today’s Morning News of Northwest Arkansas, Rogers Athletic Director and Head Football Coach Ronnie Peacock was "shocked" when he heard his job titles will eventually be separated. Rogers School Board members voted Tuesday to hire a non-coaching athletic director in the district.
The Fort Smith Board of Directors on Tuesday unanimously approved water conservation measures that fall between the existing least- and most-restrictive conservation measures. Steve Parke, utility director, said the new measure targets “elective” uses such as lawn and turf watering, to preserve water during drought conditions.
The Faulkner County Quorum Court is raising questions about delays in opening the new jail. The skylights reportedly leak and there have been problems with a computer system designed to control plumbing to the various cells.
Bella Vista Republican Burton Schindler's proposal for Benton County justices of the peace to collectively endorse County Judge Gary Black's re-election fell flat Wednesday with several of the elected officials whose support Schindler sought. But, according to the Morning News of Northwest Arkansas, five justices of the peace who received Schindler's letter say they have misgivings about the collective endorsement of any candidate.
Plans for a tax increment financing district in Rogers may be over. Two of five major street projects in Rogers' tax increment financing plan are funded and with little hope of implementing a successful district that won't be challenged in court, the city is likely to drop the idea and look for other financing for the remaining projects, according to Rogers Mayor Steve Womack.
Springdale Voters will likely decide in July whether to build a minor-league ballpark. Chamber of Commerce officials could have a proposal to the Springdale City Council by May 23 to set a vote for July 11. The chamber also has a footprint plan of a proposed minor-league park in southwest Springdale that might be unveiled at that council meeting.
The 40 percent sewer rate increase proposed for Little Rock residents by next January will, instead, be phased in over five years.
Fourteen Southern Arkansas University fraternity members accused of hazing have settled out of court, according to the plaintiff’s lawyer. The plaintiff, Ty Keith, filed a lawsuit in 2004 that said fraternity members had beat him so badly in an off-campus occurrence that he spent 11 days in a hospital. Proceedings against the remaining defendants will go to trial in late November.
The legislative plan to meet Friday is still “on.” There reportedly has been discussion of alternatives for funding a school science program, but lawmakers are still looking at an attempted veto override of a half-million dollars spending bill from the most recent special session.
A special task force of the Faculty Senate at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville has found that grades are going up steadily and there are instances of “grade inflation” on the northwest Arkansas campus. According to the Morning News of Northwest Arkansas students received the grade of A in almost 45 percent of their classes in 2004, compared to about 35 percent in 1994.
The state Board of Parole is recommending that Gov. Mike Huckabee grant executive clemency to a murderer who the governor came close to setting free nearly two years ago. Dennis L. Lewis was convicted of capital murder in the death of Springdale paDEVELOPING ... wnshop owner J.J. Cobb during a 1974 robbery when Lewis was 17.
An execution date could be set soon for Don Davis, who was convicted in the 1990 execution-style murder of a Rogers woman. Matt DeCample, a spokesman for the Attorney General's Office, said Wednesday the U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to hear an appeal regarding the Davis case.
A large group of Decatur students protested outside the high school Wednesday to say they don't feel safe without a police officer on the campus. Students say they want the district's superintendent to answer questions about why the district's resource officer was removed. Police Chief Terry Luker says school administrators haven't taken some incidents seriously and are not listening to employees' concerns about safety.
According to today’s Morning News of Northwest Arkansas, Rogers Athletic Director and Head Football Coach Ronnie Peacock was "shocked" when he heard his job titles will eventually be separated. Rogers School Board members voted Tuesday to hire a non-coaching athletic director in the district.
The Fort Smith Board of Directors on Tuesday unanimously approved water conservation measures that fall between the existing least- and most-restrictive conservation measures. Steve Parke, utility director, said the new measure targets “elective” uses such as lawn and turf watering, to preserve water during drought conditions.
The Faulkner County Quorum Court is raising questions about delays in opening the new jail. The skylights reportedly leak and there have been problems with a computer system designed to control plumbing to the various cells.
Bella Vista Republican Burton Schindler's proposal for Benton County justices of the peace to collectively endorse County Judge Gary Black's re-election fell flat Wednesday with several of the elected officials whose support Schindler sought. But, according to the Morning News of Northwest Arkansas, five justices of the peace who received Schindler's letter say they have misgivings about the collective endorsement of any candidate.
Plans for a tax increment financing district in Rogers may be over. Two of five major street projects in Rogers' tax increment financing plan are funded and with little hope of implementing a successful district that won't be challenged in court, the city is likely to drop the idea and look for other financing for the remaining projects, according to Rogers Mayor Steve Womack.
Springdale Voters will likely decide in July whether to build a minor-league ballpark. Chamber of Commerce officials could have a proposal to the Springdale City Council by May 23 to set a vote for July 11. The chamber also has a footprint plan of a proposed minor-league park in southwest Springdale that might be unveiled at that council meeting.
The 40 percent sewer rate increase proposed for Little Rock residents by next January will, instead, be phased in over five years.
Fourteen Southern Arkansas University fraternity members accused of hazing have settled out of court, according to the plaintiff’s lawyer. The plaintiff, Ty Keith, filed a lawsuit in 2004 that said fraternity members had beat him so badly in an off-campus occurrence that he spent 11 days in a hospital. Proceedings against the remaining defendants will go to trial in late November.
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It just can't get any better ! I tuned in WAIradio this A.M. and could not believe my ears. Three political geniuses were speaking nearly as one; Pat Lynch, Drew Pritt and David Sanders as a trio. Only the addition of Laurie Taylor could have made my life more complete.
Sanders and Pritt got into it about the state of the Bushevik Economy. When Sanders proclamed the economy was the shining glory of Dumbya's Presidency , I could not restrain myself and called in to join the fray.
Sanders, a protege' of the OBU mafia headed by Rex Nelson and Mike Huckabee, never lets facts get in the way of his incessant GOP cheer leading and distorting of reality.
Obviously the financially elite are the ONLY beneficiaries of Bush's economic policies.Anybody else who trumpets the Bush Economy are either brain-dead or they're stooges. Sanders can probably be named on both of the above rosters. Please note the following facts ........:
" His massive tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 have neither sparked the economy nor bolstered his popularity. They have, however, exacerbated a fiscal crisis that threatens to undermine the very basis of the American state. "It used to be a part of the American character to believe in delaying gratification, and saving for the future," (Historian Robert) McElvaine says. "But it seems the future is being ignored in spectacular fashion by this administration."
..........A growing number of Bush allies have "broken faith with his economic leadership--" Bruce Bartlett, Peggy Noonan, Newt Gingrich, Francis Fukuyama.....
David Walker, the comptroller general of the United States, last November, issued a clarion call to the nation's lawmakers, comparing America's burgeoning deficits and debt to the forces that ultimately toppled the Roman Empire. "There is no question both U.S. government spending and tax cuts are spiralling out of control," Walker wrote. "It's time to get serious about our nation's fiscal future." The numbers he cites are nothing short of staggering.
"Discontent among conservatives has been building for several years," states Stephen Slivinski, director of budget studies at the Cato Institute,
"People thought over the long term he'd try to do some good and Republicans could finally make good on their promises of getting spending under control, but here we are in the second term and that has not materialized," he says. "The dam has just broken."
Federal spending has risen by $683 billion a year under Bush, less than a third of which has gone to national defense and homeland security.
As a result, the U.S. national debt has surged from $5.7 trillion in the last fiscal year before Bush took office, to over $8.3 trillion and counting. Brian Riedl, a budget analyst with the right-wing Heritage Foundation, says the Bush administration has played the benevolent uncle to every special interest that comes calling, using its spending power to win support in potentially vulnerable constituencies.
The creation of new jobs during Bush's presidency is another disaster
Two million new jobs sounds like a lot, but it's the most anemic job creation performance by any president in the postwar era. The gains have also failed to keep pace with the growth of the workforce, and as a result the overall employment rate under Bush has declined from 64.4 per cent to 62.9 per cent. The manufacturing sector has been particularly hard hit, losing 2.9 million jobs since Bush took office, a decline of roughly 17 per cent -- worse than the postwar hangover under Truman, worse than the early '70s stagnation under Nixon, and far worse than the darkest days of Reagan's Rust Belt plant closures.
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GOP Economic Mantra :
Maintain the economy is going great. No matter how bad things get, how large the national debt, or how huge the gap between America’s haves and have-nots, push for more tax cuts. Insist that they’re a panacea, a modern snake oil that will cure all ills. Keep promising America that good times are just ahead and the yellow-brick road is lined with tax cuts. Talk equality and opportunity; practice elitism and favoritism. You’re shameless; you’re greedy; you’re a Republican.
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Lynch finally called me off after sarcastically referring to my intellect and my post graduate education. I certainly would not want to get into a "mine's bigger than your's " match with a towering intellect such as Pat Lynch. I'm well aware he was graduated in the approximate middle of his class at McGill High School and then decided he knew everything and required nothing more! In the face of such facts, I wouldn't dare face off against the Icon. After all, I wasn't born yesterday........................................................
Later I heard Pat warn his beloved Marie that she better get the food ready because he was famished. Thus, I must admit I did not know his wife was visually challenged.
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Sanders and Pritt got into it about the state of the Bushevik Economy. When Sanders proclamed the economy was the shining glory of Dumbya's Presidency , I could not restrain myself and called in to join the fray.
Sanders, a protege' of the OBU mafia headed by Rex Nelson and Mike Huckabee, never lets facts get in the way of his incessant GOP cheer leading and distorting of reality.
Obviously the financially elite are the ONLY beneficiaries of Bush's economic policies.Anybody else who trumpets the Bush Economy are either brain-dead or they're stooges. Sanders can probably be named on both of the above rosters. Please note the following facts ........:
" His massive tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 have neither sparked the economy nor bolstered his popularity. They have, however, exacerbated a fiscal crisis that threatens to undermine the very basis of the American state. "It used to be a part of the American character to believe in delaying gratification, and saving for the future," (Historian Robert) McElvaine says. "But it seems the future is being ignored in spectacular fashion by this administration."
..........A growing number of Bush allies have "broken faith with his economic leadership--" Bruce Bartlett, Peggy Noonan, Newt Gingrich, Francis Fukuyama.....
David Walker, the comptroller general of the United States, last November, issued a clarion call to the nation's lawmakers, comparing America's burgeoning deficits and debt to the forces that ultimately toppled the Roman Empire. "There is no question both U.S. government spending and tax cuts are spiralling out of control," Walker wrote. "It's time to get serious about our nation's fiscal future." The numbers he cites are nothing short of staggering.
"Discontent among conservatives has been building for several years," states Stephen Slivinski, director of budget studies at the Cato Institute,
"People thought over the long term he'd try to do some good and Republicans could finally make good on their promises of getting spending under control, but here we are in the second term and that has not materialized," he says. "The dam has just broken."
Federal spending has risen by $683 billion a year under Bush, less than a third of which has gone to national defense and homeland security.
As a result, the U.S. national debt has surged from $5.7 trillion in the last fiscal year before Bush took office, to over $8.3 trillion and counting. Brian Riedl, a budget analyst with the right-wing Heritage Foundation, says the Bush administration has played the benevolent uncle to every special interest that comes calling, using its spending power to win support in potentially vulnerable constituencies.
The creation of new jobs during Bush's presidency is another disaster
Two million new jobs sounds like a lot, but it's the most anemic job creation performance by any president in the postwar era. The gains have also failed to keep pace with the growth of the workforce, and as a result the overall employment rate under Bush has declined from 64.4 per cent to 62.9 per cent. The manufacturing sector has been particularly hard hit, losing 2.9 million jobs since Bush took office, a decline of roughly 17 per cent -- worse than the postwar hangover under Truman, worse than the early '70s stagnation under Nixon, and far worse than the darkest days of Reagan's Rust Belt plant closures.
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GOP Economic Mantra :
Maintain the economy is going great. No matter how bad things get, how large the national debt, or how huge the gap between America’s haves and have-nots, push for more tax cuts. Insist that they’re a panacea, a modern snake oil that will cure all ills. Keep promising America that good times are just ahead and the yellow-brick road is lined with tax cuts. Talk equality and opportunity; practice elitism and favoritism. You’re shameless; you’re greedy; you’re a Republican.
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Lynch finally called me off after sarcastically referring to my intellect and my post graduate education. I certainly would not want to get into a "mine's bigger than your's " match with a towering intellect such as Pat Lynch. I'm well aware he was graduated in the approximate middle of his class at McGill High School and then decided he knew everything and required nothing more! In the face of such facts, I wouldn't dare face off against the Icon. After all, I wasn't born yesterday........................................................
Later I heard Pat warn his beloved Marie that she better get the food ready because he was famished. Thus, I must admit I did not know his wife was visually challenged.
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