Thursday, April 27, 2006
Thursday Morning Summation
Dillard's, the Little Rock retailer, says that it will build a 90,000-SF store at the Red Cliffs Mall in St. George, Utah. The department store, more than twice the size of the retailer's usual stores, is set to open in September. The store will feature a new home section and an expanded shoe area. Dillard's said the larger size will allow it to present an expanded selection of more upscale and contemporary fashions.
NY Times reports that Stephens family of Little Rock will be in the partnership led by Dean Singleton that will buy the San Jose Mercury and several other former Knight-Ridder newspapers that were unwanted by McClatchy in its purchase of K-R. Stephens' participation, says the Times, helps Singleton contend with potential anti-trust concerns for his growing ownership of newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Arkansas’ Sen. Blanche Lincoln pressed Wednesday to extend tax credits to companies that produce energy from crops and from farm byproducts — a bid to spur investment in alternative fuels.
University of Arkansas researchers will likely study water and sewer impact fees for Springdale. The Springdale Water and Sewer Commission sent a proposal back to the school's Center for Business and Economic Research so researchers can increase the scope of their study. Cities use impact fees to pay for costs related to growth in a region.
The Southwest Times Record reports that Fort Smith voters are being asked in the May 23 election to extend the 1 percent Lake Fort Smith wastewater treatment sales tax — which is expected to be retired in 2008 — until 2016 to fund a $170 million bond project. The revenue would finance a new city hall, sports complex, sanitary sewer wet weather improvements and a new public radio safety system.
The state Legislature isn't ready to pass a school voucher program, one of Arkansas' most widely known home schoolers said Wednesday. Former state Rep. Jim Bob Duggar of Springdale, a candidate for the state Senate, said he instead would favor a property tax credit on the residence of a family that chooses to school children at home or send them to private school.
The local NAACP is raising questions about the hiring of a principal for Conway’s new intermediate school. School board members said at this week’s meeting that they would respond to those questions when they were submitted in writing.
Thousands of people will take to the streets of Arkansas next week, with some skipping work and freezing purchases, to rally for a federal path to legalization for the nation’s 11 million illegal aliens. B
According to the Democrat-Gazette, the Little Rock homicide count for 2006 now stands at 25.
Thurman C. Russell offered him a boat if he would kill two people, a witness testified Wednesday at Russell’s murder-for-hire trial in Baxter County Circuit Court.
Central Arkansas Transit reports that it added about 500 additional daily riders this month since gas prices have increased.
The vast majority of rice in Northeast Arkansas has been planted and soon cotton and soybean planting will get under way in earnest, agricultural officials have told the Jonesboro Sun.
NY Times reports that Stephens family of Little Rock will be in the partnership led by Dean Singleton that will buy the San Jose Mercury and several other former Knight-Ridder newspapers that were unwanted by McClatchy in its purchase of K-R. Stephens' participation, says the Times, helps Singleton contend with potential anti-trust concerns for his growing ownership of newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Arkansas’ Sen. Blanche Lincoln pressed Wednesday to extend tax credits to companies that produce energy from crops and from farm byproducts — a bid to spur investment in alternative fuels.
University of Arkansas researchers will likely study water and sewer impact fees for Springdale. The Springdale Water and Sewer Commission sent a proposal back to the school's Center for Business and Economic Research so researchers can increase the scope of their study. Cities use impact fees to pay for costs related to growth in a region.
The Southwest Times Record reports that Fort Smith voters are being asked in the May 23 election to extend the 1 percent Lake Fort Smith wastewater treatment sales tax — which is expected to be retired in 2008 — until 2016 to fund a $170 million bond project. The revenue would finance a new city hall, sports complex, sanitary sewer wet weather improvements and a new public radio safety system.
The state Legislature isn't ready to pass a school voucher program, one of Arkansas' most widely known home schoolers said Wednesday. Former state Rep. Jim Bob Duggar of Springdale, a candidate for the state Senate, said he instead would favor a property tax credit on the residence of a family that chooses to school children at home or send them to private school.
The local NAACP is raising questions about the hiring of a principal for Conway’s new intermediate school. School board members said at this week’s meeting that they would respond to those questions when they were submitted in writing.
Thousands of people will take to the streets of Arkansas next week, with some skipping work and freezing purchases, to rally for a federal path to legalization for the nation’s 11 million illegal aliens. B
According to the Democrat-Gazette, the Little Rock homicide count for 2006 now stands at 25.
Thurman C. Russell offered him a boat if he would kill two people, a witness testified Wednesday at Russell’s murder-for-hire trial in Baxter County Circuit Court.
Central Arkansas Transit reports that it added about 500 additional daily riders this month since gas prices have increased.
The vast majority of rice in Northeast Arkansas has been planted and soon cotton and soybean planting will get under way in earnest, agricultural officials have told the Jonesboro Sun.
