Friday, June 16, 2006
Friday, at last!
An issue of 100 votes has turned into a controversy in the Delta, because whether or not those votes are allowed to be counted will determine the winner of state Senate District 16 seat in Tuesday's Democratic run-off. After the initial vote count, unofficial returns saw Arnell Willis of Phillips County with a narrow 35-point lead over Jack Crumbly of St. Francis County. Frederick Freeman, chairman of the St. Francis County Election Commission, says the results were either called in or typed in incorrectly.
Gov. Mike Huckabee says that a flight he took on a private plane provided by the director of a youth ranch that has an $8.5 million contract with the state is considered an in-kind contribution to his political action committee and doesn’t pose a conflict of interest.
Seth Blumley of the Democrat-Gazette reports today that despite the Legislature’s hope that a $380 million tax increase in 2004 would mean a greater emphasis on instruction, districts on average spent 61 percent of their budgets on instruction in 2004-05, the same percentage as the previous school year, the consultants said. Consultants Allan Odden of the University of Wisconsin and Larry Picus of the University of Southern California said the state should get more involved with school districts to enhance schools’ teaching strategies to help students learn.
A turf war in northwest Arkansas has air ambulance services "fighting over dead bodies" and heaping thousands of dollars of extra medical costs on bereaved families, the Benton County coroner told legislators Thursday. Coroner Kim Scott testified during a hearing at the state Capitol that rival helicopter medical services are flying dead people to local hospitals simply to collect fees of up to $6,000.
State utility regulators want assurances from Entergy Arkansas President Hugh Mc-Donald that customers won’t foot part of the bill for a “Grand Gulf II” under its “system agreement” with other Entergy Corp. utilities. The Arkansas Public Service Commission gave McDonald three weeks to answer several questions on future ratepayer costs - including the potential impact of two new nuclear power plants and a coal-fired station that Entergy may build in Louisiana and Mississippi.
A former CIA officer has testified that he doesn't think a Fayetteville man accused of trying to join the Palestinian Islamic Jihad is a terrorist. Frank Anderson, an expert on Middle Eastern terror groups, told jurors Arwah Jaber's actions in the days leading up to his arrest last June were inconsistent with his statements that he was going to Palestine to help the group fight Israel.
The Arkansas Supreme Court has ruled that a medical clinic had no obligation to notify authorities of a case of suspected child abuse that one of its doctors failed to report. A three-year-old boy died of blunt trauma 10 months after a doctor at Pro-Med/Cooper Clinic in Van Buren first assessed him as being a battered child, but state law required the physician, not the clinic, to report such cases to the state child abuse hotline, the high court concluded.
Arkansas Supreme Court justices Thursday questioned a state Department of Health and Human Services lawyer trying to determine why the state banned gays from being foster parents.
Preliminary census numbers show about 9,000 more people living in Fayetteville since 2000. The city will recoup over $2 million annually from the state based on the new numbers.
Heifer International of Little Rock has a new two-pronged strategy to fight the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa. The international nonprofit says it will provide livestock to increase incomes so impoverished families can afford AIDS medication and teach sustainable farm methods integrating livestock with crop production to add protein to family diets so the AIDS medicine will be more effective.
Allstate Insurance says it will no longer write earthquake insurance in Missouri and Illinois.
A sales clerk at Vinson Electrical Supply on South Arkansas Avenue in Russellville said Wednesday she was about 15 feet away when a Chevrolet pickup truck crashed into the store's showroom. Sales Clerk Debbie Neal said she couldn't believe her eyes when she glanced out of the window near the front counter and saw a truck headed straight for the showroom.
Truman City Council members voted to make it unlawful for owners or the occupants of a residential or commercial building to use their premises to store inoperable motor vehicles.
Gov. Mike Huckabee says that a flight he took on a private plane provided by the director of a youth ranch that has an $8.5 million contract with the state is considered an in-kind contribution to his political action committee and doesn’t pose a conflict of interest.
Seth Blumley of the Democrat-Gazette reports today that despite the Legislature’s hope that a $380 million tax increase in 2004 would mean a greater emphasis on instruction, districts on average spent 61 percent of their budgets on instruction in 2004-05, the same percentage as the previous school year, the consultants said. Consultants Allan Odden of the University of Wisconsin and Larry Picus of the University of Southern California said the state should get more involved with school districts to enhance schools’ teaching strategies to help students learn.
A turf war in northwest Arkansas has air ambulance services "fighting over dead bodies" and heaping thousands of dollars of extra medical costs on bereaved families, the Benton County coroner told legislators Thursday. Coroner Kim Scott testified during a hearing at the state Capitol that rival helicopter medical services are flying dead people to local hospitals simply to collect fees of up to $6,000.
State utility regulators want assurances from Entergy Arkansas President Hugh Mc-Donald that customers won’t foot part of the bill for a “Grand Gulf II” under its “system agreement” with other Entergy Corp. utilities. The Arkansas Public Service Commission gave McDonald three weeks to answer several questions on future ratepayer costs - including the potential impact of two new nuclear power plants and a coal-fired station that Entergy may build in Louisiana and Mississippi.
A former CIA officer has testified that he doesn't think a Fayetteville man accused of trying to join the Palestinian Islamic Jihad is a terrorist. Frank Anderson, an expert on Middle Eastern terror groups, told jurors Arwah Jaber's actions in the days leading up to his arrest last June were inconsistent with his statements that he was going to Palestine to help the group fight Israel.
The Arkansas Supreme Court has ruled that a medical clinic had no obligation to notify authorities of a case of suspected child abuse that one of its doctors failed to report. A three-year-old boy died of blunt trauma 10 months after a doctor at Pro-Med/Cooper Clinic in Van Buren first assessed him as being a battered child, but state law required the physician, not the clinic, to report such cases to the state child abuse hotline, the high court concluded.
Arkansas Supreme Court justices Thursday questioned a state Department of Health and Human Services lawyer trying to determine why the state banned gays from being foster parents.
Preliminary census numbers show about 9,000 more people living in Fayetteville since 2000. The city will recoup over $2 million annually from the state based on the new numbers.
Heifer International of Little Rock has a new two-pronged strategy to fight the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa. The international nonprofit says it will provide livestock to increase incomes so impoverished families can afford AIDS medication and teach sustainable farm methods integrating livestock with crop production to add protein to family diets so the AIDS medicine will be more effective.
Allstate Insurance says it will no longer write earthquake insurance in Missouri and Illinois.
A sales clerk at Vinson Electrical Supply on South Arkansas Avenue in Russellville said Wednesday she was about 15 feet away when a Chevrolet pickup truck crashed into the store's showroom. Sales Clerk Debbie Neal said she couldn't believe her eyes when she glanced out of the window near the front counter and saw a truck headed straight for the showroom.
Truman City Council members voted to make it unlawful for owners or the occupants of a residential or commercial building to use their premises to store inoperable motor vehicles.
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Mike Huckabee has merged tax-payer dollars with religio-activist endeavors throughout his religio-activist career.Other red state areas are not so tolerantof their fearless leaders: ..............................
A court ruling last week against an Iowa prison program insists upon church-state separation.
Is an evangelical Christian prison rehabilitation program, paid for by taxpayer dollars, constitutional?
The answer, issued by a federal district judge in Iowa on June 2, was a resounding "no."...........................
The latest travesty perpetrated by the Right Reverend Huckster involving millions of medicaid dollars in a swap for favors to the Gov is egriegious beyond comprehension......certainly on a par with the
" Building Character Behind Bars " charlatans as glowingly described in the Arkansas Times of March 9,2006 edition!
The primary danger of such programs is not just the one of " filthy lucre ", but of the inevitable lack of oversight of such shams. $ 8.5 million ....nice work if you can get it...heh Rev Huckster.
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A court ruling last week against an Iowa prison program insists upon church-state separation.
Is an evangelical Christian prison rehabilitation program, paid for by taxpayer dollars, constitutional?
The answer, issued by a federal district judge in Iowa on June 2, was a resounding "no."...........................
The latest travesty perpetrated by the Right Reverend Huckster involving millions of medicaid dollars in a swap for favors to the Gov is egriegious beyond comprehension......certainly on a par with the
" Building Character Behind Bars " charlatans as glowingly described in the Arkansas Times of March 9,2006 edition!
The primary danger of such programs is not just the one of " filthy lucre ", but of the inevitable lack of oversight of such shams. $ 8.5 million ....nice work if you can get it...heh Rev Huckster.
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