Tuesday, June 27, 2006
On-time Tuesday!
The Arkansas Times blog reports that Governor Huckabee, immediately upon returning from his trip to Asia, will be taking his presidential campaign to Cedar Rapids, Iowa on July 8 to 10. Huckabee is scheduled to meet with officials of Toyota in Japan Thursday.
The secretary of state's office says Rod Bryan, a Little Rock musician and record store owner, had gathered sufficient signatures to qualify as a candidate for governor as an independent. Needing 10,000, the secretary of state's office stopped counting when it got to 10,052. Jim Lendall, gubernatorial candidate for the Green Party, will be in court today seeking to be put on the ballot. Hehas already submitted enough signatures, if valid, to run as an independent, but a third-party candidate needs 24,000 signatures, which Lendall argues is unconstitutional.
An 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel has declined to release the Little Rock School District from decades of federal court supervision of its desegregation efforts, instead affirming a 2004 lower court order requiring the school system to evaluate academic programs.
Arkansas slipped to 45th out of 50 states in the 2006 Kids Count Data Book, which is produced annually by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and is a nationwide survey of children’s well-being. Only Tennessee, South Carolina, New Mexico, Louisiana and Mississippi ranked lower than Arkansas. New Hampshire captured the top spot.
North Little Rock’s Electric Department will double its annual cost to purchase power for its customers after the City Council approved a three-year, $80 million contract late Monday.
A judge has stayed the execution of Don W. Davis, scheduled for July 5, so he can pursue a claim that Arkansas' lethal-injection protocol amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. Davis was convicted in 1990 of the murder of a Rogers woman.
Two former Magazine School District teacher aides are scheduled for arraignment next month on charges they had sex with two 17-year-old students. Misty Dawn Siddons of Booneville and Angela Dawn Ryan of Magazine are charged in Logan County Circuit Court with one count each of first-degree sexual assault. The charges accuse the women of having sex with minors.
An anonymous tip has led Fayetteville police to a man they say is responsible for a hit-and-run accident that killed a University of Arkansas graduate student on July 2, 2005. Police issued an arrest warrant for John Stanley Secrest of Fayetteville on a charge of leaving the scene of an accident with injuries in the death of Karthik Sennimalai.
The floor in the new Faulkner County Jail will be installed July 6 and employees can begin training during the next week. After months of delay, the new facility is expected to receive prisoners in August.
The secretary of state's office says Rod Bryan, a Little Rock musician and record store owner, had gathered sufficient signatures to qualify as a candidate for governor as an independent. Needing 10,000, the secretary of state's office stopped counting when it got to 10,052. Jim Lendall, gubernatorial candidate for the Green Party, will be in court today seeking to be put on the ballot. Hehas already submitted enough signatures, if valid, to run as an independent, but a third-party candidate needs 24,000 signatures, which Lendall argues is unconstitutional.
An 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel has declined to release the Little Rock School District from decades of federal court supervision of its desegregation efforts, instead affirming a 2004 lower court order requiring the school system to evaluate academic programs.
Arkansas slipped to 45th out of 50 states in the 2006 Kids Count Data Book, which is produced annually by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and is a nationwide survey of children’s well-being. Only Tennessee, South Carolina, New Mexico, Louisiana and Mississippi ranked lower than Arkansas. New Hampshire captured the top spot.
North Little Rock’s Electric Department will double its annual cost to purchase power for its customers after the City Council approved a three-year, $80 million contract late Monday.
A judge has stayed the execution of Don W. Davis, scheduled for July 5, so he can pursue a claim that Arkansas' lethal-injection protocol amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. Davis was convicted in 1990 of the murder of a Rogers woman.
Two former Magazine School District teacher aides are scheduled for arraignment next month on charges they had sex with two 17-year-old students. Misty Dawn Siddons of Booneville and Angela Dawn Ryan of Magazine are charged in Logan County Circuit Court with one count each of first-degree sexual assault. The charges accuse the women of having sex with minors.
An anonymous tip has led Fayetteville police to a man they say is responsible for a hit-and-run accident that killed a University of Arkansas graduate student on July 2, 2005. Police issued an arrest warrant for John Stanley Secrest of Fayetteville on a charge of leaving the scene of an accident with injuries in the death of Karthik Sennimalai.
The floor in the new Faulkner County Jail will be installed July 6 and employees can begin training during the next week. After months of delay, the new facility is expected to receive prisoners in August.
