Monday, May 15, 2006
Sunrise Monday
Advocates for the elderly predict that today will bring a surge of people out to beat the deadline to sign up for drug coverage. Medicare officials say they are confident their employees and computer system will be able to handle the load.
State auditors released a report on administrative costs of running Arkansas’ 250 school districts for the 2004-05 fiscal year, detailing the outlay for administrative staff and leading some lawmakers to say the state should have more control over the districts. Some of the information suggests that districts may be breaking state laws concerning reporting benefits as taxable income and underreporting superintendent’s salaries. The Bentonville District reportedly has not notified the state of $233 thousand paid to superintendent Gary Compton to purchase a retirement annuity.
Roby Brock reports in the Morning News of Northwest Arkansas that Natural gas development in the Fayetteville Shale could potentially generate $5.5 billion for Arkansas' economy through 2008, along with nearly 10,000 jobs and $358 million in state and local tax revenue, a highly anticipated University of Arkansas study released Wednesday projected. The six-month study was funded by Southwestern Energy.
Patrons of tiny Paron High School filed a lawsuit Friday in Pulaski County Circuit Court in an effort to keep the school from closing. The group of 14 Paron supporters claimed closure of the 75-student school and subsequent busing of Paron students to Bryant would violate the students' constitutional right to an equal educational opportunity.
The Arkansas Supreme Court will expedite consideration of an appeal of a circuit judge’s ruling that the name of Democratic lieutenant governor candidate Bill Halter of North Little Rock can remain on the May 23 primary election ballot.
Former Pine Bluff alderman Billy Freeman Sr. was released from a federal prison Friday and was immediately set free after a Jefferson County circuit court judge prohibited the state Department of Correction from taking custody of him. reeman began serving a 13-month federal prison sentence on June 6, 2005, after pleading guilty to attempted extortion on May 5, 2005. He received credit for more than a month of “good time” and will be placed on supervised federal probation for three years.
Prosecutors charged convicted killer Ronald James Ward with first-degree murder, saying he raped and stabbed 25-year-old Kristin Laurite to death as she exercised her dogs at a rest stop in Morrilton on an August afternoon six years ago.
Barling police violated an Ozark woman’s rights when they searched her purse without obtaining her consent. Circuit Judge Michael Fitzhugh granted a motion to suppress evidence that Barling police seized when they searched the purse of Danielle Elise Ingram following a traffic stop on Arkansas 59.
A Harding University professor has received a grant to study the effect of caffeine on children. Ken Turley, associate professor of kinesiology and director of the Human Performance Laboratory at the Searcy liberal arts college, received $18 thousand from the Arkansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence at UAMS.
According to the Democrat-Gazette, some Asian immigrant farmers who moved to Arkansas and bordering states with dreams of turning birds into dollars are filing for bankruptcy protection. Fayetteville lawyer Mark Henry is handling eight personal or business bankruptcy involving Hmong poultry farmers, part of a tribal Southeast Asian group who fled to the United States as refugees in the Vietnam War era. Henry is also handling six fraud claims that allege the Hmong farmers paid inflated prices for their properties, causing financial struggles.
State auditors released a report on administrative costs of running Arkansas’ 250 school districts for the 2004-05 fiscal year, detailing the outlay for administrative staff and leading some lawmakers to say the state should have more control over the districts. Some of the information suggests that districts may be breaking state laws concerning reporting benefits as taxable income and underreporting superintendent’s salaries. The Bentonville District reportedly has not notified the state of $233 thousand paid to superintendent Gary Compton to purchase a retirement annuity.
Roby Brock reports in the Morning News of Northwest Arkansas that Natural gas development in the Fayetteville Shale could potentially generate $5.5 billion for Arkansas' economy through 2008, along with nearly 10,000 jobs and $358 million in state and local tax revenue, a highly anticipated University of Arkansas study released Wednesday projected. The six-month study was funded by Southwestern Energy.
Patrons of tiny Paron High School filed a lawsuit Friday in Pulaski County Circuit Court in an effort to keep the school from closing. The group of 14 Paron supporters claimed closure of the 75-student school and subsequent busing of Paron students to Bryant would violate the students' constitutional right to an equal educational opportunity.
The Arkansas Supreme Court will expedite consideration of an appeal of a circuit judge’s ruling that the name of Democratic lieutenant governor candidate Bill Halter of North Little Rock can remain on the May 23 primary election ballot.
Former Pine Bluff alderman Billy Freeman Sr. was released from a federal prison Friday and was immediately set free after a Jefferson County circuit court judge prohibited the state Department of Correction from taking custody of him. reeman began serving a 13-month federal prison sentence on June 6, 2005, after pleading guilty to attempted extortion on May 5, 2005. He received credit for more than a month of “good time” and will be placed on supervised federal probation for three years.
Prosecutors charged convicted killer Ronald James Ward with first-degree murder, saying he raped and stabbed 25-year-old Kristin Laurite to death as she exercised her dogs at a rest stop in Morrilton on an August afternoon six years ago.
Barling police violated an Ozark woman’s rights when they searched her purse without obtaining her consent. Circuit Judge Michael Fitzhugh granted a motion to suppress evidence that Barling police seized when they searched the purse of Danielle Elise Ingram following a traffic stop on Arkansas 59.
A Harding University professor has received a grant to study the effect of caffeine on children. Ken Turley, associate professor of kinesiology and director of the Human Performance Laboratory at the Searcy liberal arts college, received $18 thousand from the Arkansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence at UAMS.
According to the Democrat-Gazette, some Asian immigrant farmers who moved to Arkansas and bordering states with dreams of turning birds into dollars are filing for bankruptcy protection. Fayetteville lawyer Mark Henry is handling eight personal or business bankruptcy involving Hmong poultry farmers, part of a tribal Southeast Asian group who fled to the United States as refugees in the Vietnam War era. Henry is also handling six fraud claims that allege the Hmong farmers paid inflated prices for their properties, causing financial struggles.
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David Sanders, the baby of the Ouachita Baptist Mafia and Stephens Media Butt-Boy, takes the prize as ,not only the youngest world champion name-dropper, but also the youngest disingenuousness world champeen.In a laughably inept recent Stephens Media column he gets orgasmic pleasure by bashing the gubertorial years of Bill Clinton.Sanders quotes extensively from the "findings?" of Greg Kaza; a guest columnist at the right-wing National Review,etc. and executive director of the Stephens' funded Arkansas Policy Foundation.
Sanders decries Clinton's history of committing the usual Demo. Capital Offense; taxing and spending. During Clinton's tenure Arkansas ranked near the bottom in income and education rankings. Now, after an interminable time of leadership inflicted upon us by Sanders' hero, Mike Huckster,....Arkansas ranks near the bottom in income and education rankings.
Kaza and presumably Sanders excoriate Clinton's ignorance of the importance of establishing and maintaining manufacturing jobs. Kaza, a former extreme conservative Michigan lawmaker, apparently is not aware of the decimation of manufacturing jobs,death of the auto industry, etc,etc,etc, in his home state. Hello! Is not the death of manufacturing in America largely the result of GOP trade policies,i.e. outsoucing, tariffs,trade imbalances,etc.
Kaza and Sanders also skewer Clintons economic policies. Hello! They gotta be joking. Kaza's own recent research conducted here in Arkansas suggests Bill Clinton can't carry Mike Huckabee's jock strap in terms of govermental mismanagement/ineptitude.:
"The Club for Growth, a big-business organization that wants to free business from government restraints, privatize Social Security, curb government services for the needy and slash taxes on big business and the rich, said Huckabee’s nine years as governor greatly expanded government and taxes.
Huckabee really can’t deny that. Taxes have risen considerably, the state government payroll has swelled by a whopping 20 percent, and vast new public health services have been put in place. That is the Republican definition of liberal, although liberals would object to how he went about it.
The taxes were regressive levies on working people, not those a liberal would support."
Sanders has learned his lessons well. He's becoming as skilled in lying as Rex Nelson, Mike Huckabee.etc.
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Sanders decries Clinton's history of committing the usual Demo. Capital Offense; taxing and spending. During Clinton's tenure Arkansas ranked near the bottom in income and education rankings. Now, after an interminable time of leadership inflicted upon us by Sanders' hero, Mike Huckster,....Arkansas ranks near the bottom in income and education rankings.
Kaza and presumably Sanders excoriate Clinton's ignorance of the importance of establishing and maintaining manufacturing jobs. Kaza, a former extreme conservative Michigan lawmaker, apparently is not aware of the decimation of manufacturing jobs,death of the auto industry, etc,etc,etc, in his home state. Hello! Is not the death of manufacturing in America largely the result of GOP trade policies,i.e. outsoucing, tariffs,trade imbalances,etc.
Kaza and Sanders also skewer Clintons economic policies. Hello! They gotta be joking. Kaza's own recent research conducted here in Arkansas suggests Bill Clinton can't carry Mike Huckabee's jock strap in terms of govermental mismanagement/ineptitude.:
"The Club for Growth, a big-business organization that wants to free business from government restraints, privatize Social Security, curb government services for the needy and slash taxes on big business and the rich, said Huckabee’s nine years as governor greatly expanded government and taxes.
Huckabee really can’t deny that. Taxes have risen considerably, the state government payroll has swelled by a whopping 20 percent, and vast new public health services have been put in place. That is the Republican definition of liberal, although liberals would object to how he went about it.
The taxes were regressive levies on working people, not those a liberal would support."
Sanders has learned his lessons well. He's becoming as skilled in lying as Rex Nelson, Mike Huckabee.etc.
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