Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Tuesday Downpour
Inmates at the Guantanamo Bay terrorist detainee camp in Cuba are being treated fairly by the U.S. government, Gov. Mike Huckabee says after returning from a trip to the camp.
Mike Beebe's campaign defended the Democratic gubernatorial candidate against Republican charges he's wooing liberals for cash Monday as Beebe prepared to be guest of honor at a fundraiser at the home of a Beverly Hills billionaire. According to today’s Morning News of Northwest Arkansas, Retired NATO Gen. Wesley Clark is host for the $100-a-person reception and $1,000-per-plate dinner tonight at the home of businessman Ron Burkle, who just last week raised nearly $1 million for New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's re-election campaign.
Federal Emergency Management Agency plans to redraw flood maps across the United States could stop development along the Arkansas River, according to Paul Latture, director of the Little Rock Port Authority in an interview with the Russellville Courier. Jeff Pipkin, director of the Arkansas River Valley Alliance for Economic Development says redrawing may raise elevations in some areas five feet.
Lieutenant governor candidate Jim Holt’s campaign manager said one of Holt’s Republican rivals — former U.S. Attorney Chuck Banks — is wrong in claiming that one of Holt’s proposals would deny emergency medical room services to illegal aliens.
An investment group from Taylor, Michigan has purchased the Union National Plaza Building in downtown Little Rock from the Arkansas Public Employees Retirement system for $3.1 million.
The Fayetteville Planning Commission will debate the future of a proposed 10-story development on Dickson Street during a special meeting next week. Opponents say the building will diminish Dickson Street's charm, and those who supported the project label it a sign of progress.
After a seven-year silence, the century-old clock tower atop Logan County’s Paris courthouse will chime again soon, County Judge Edgar Holt said. The Southwest Times Reocrd reports that restoration of the clock tower is part of a $3 million-plus historic renovation project that began about four years ago and will likely go on another four years.
Jay Greelen reports in today’s Democrat-Gazette that, except for the obvious places like nightclubs and the corner at the back of most Baptist churches where the deacons hide to smoke, bowling alleys are the last bastion for cigarette smokers.
Mike Beebe's campaign defended the Democratic gubernatorial candidate against Republican charges he's wooing liberals for cash Monday as Beebe prepared to be guest of honor at a fundraiser at the home of a Beverly Hills billionaire. According to today’s Morning News of Northwest Arkansas, Retired NATO Gen. Wesley Clark is host for the $100-a-person reception and $1,000-per-plate dinner tonight at the home of businessman Ron Burkle, who just last week raised nearly $1 million for New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's re-election campaign.
Federal Emergency Management Agency plans to redraw flood maps across the United States could stop development along the Arkansas River, according to Paul Latture, director of the Little Rock Port Authority in an interview with the Russellville Courier. Jeff Pipkin, director of the Arkansas River Valley Alliance for Economic Development says redrawing may raise elevations in some areas five feet.
Lieutenant governor candidate Jim Holt’s campaign manager said one of Holt’s Republican rivals — former U.S. Attorney Chuck Banks — is wrong in claiming that one of Holt’s proposals would deny emergency medical room services to illegal aliens.
An investment group from Taylor, Michigan has purchased the Union National Plaza Building in downtown Little Rock from the Arkansas Public Employees Retirement system for $3.1 million.
The Fayetteville Planning Commission will debate the future of a proposed 10-story development on Dickson Street during a special meeting next week. Opponents say the building will diminish Dickson Street's charm, and those who supported the project label it a sign of progress.
After a seven-year silence, the century-old clock tower atop Logan County’s Paris courthouse will chime again soon, County Judge Edgar Holt said. The Southwest Times Reocrd reports that restoration of the clock tower is part of a $3 million-plus historic renovation project that began about four years ago and will likely go on another four years.
Jay Greelen reports in today’s Democrat-Gazette that, except for the obvious places like nightclubs and the corner at the back of most Baptist churches where the deacons hide to smoke, bowling alleys are the last bastion for cigarette smokers.
