Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Tuesday Tizzy
The Arkansas Times blog reports that Lieutenant Governor Win Paul Rockefeller is hospitalized at UAMS. He is reportedly battling pneumonia and his condition is described to Times sources as “grave.”
The Arkansas Department of Health and Human Services expects to obtain enough anti-virals by March 2007 to be able to treat 600,000 of the state’s 2.7 million residents in case there is a pandemic flu, the state’s deputy health officer told lawmakers Monday.
While campaigning for President in Iowa, Gov. Mike Huckabee said Monday that if he were Iowa’s governor he likely would have signed into law a measure putting new restrictions on the ability of local governments to seize property for economic development.
Springdale voters today will consider building a 6,000-seat stadium that would provide a venue for Springdale to bring professional baseball back to Northwest Arkansas.
The Forrest City Times-Herald reports on a lawsuit seeking to overturn the results of a run-off election in the Senate District 16 race between Jack Crumbly and Arnell Willis. The lawsuit also seeks to oust Jack Crumbly, who was declared the winner in the race for Senate District 16, and ask for a special election and other relief.
The sister of a developmentally disabled man who died after a fight with employees at a state institution in April has sued the Department of Health and Human Services because the agency did not release records about the death that she believes to be public.
Two Eureka Springs police officers are accused in a federal lawsuit of using excessive force against a man who cursed them during an altercation following a traffic stop. Kevin Ray Pruitt, according to the suit, started cursing the officers after receiving a ticket for a minor traffic violation last July. Pruitt maintains cursing a police officer is a protected form of free speech under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The state Board of Education on Monday approved the immediate annexation of the Altheimer school system into the neighboring Dollarway School District, though both districts are on the state’s financially troubled list.
The Academics Plus charter school in Maumelle has enough students enrolled for the new school year and will be financially solvent, according to the State Department of Education. More than 330 enrolled for classes.
There was a public hearing on the issue of impact fees in Rogers by local developers, Mayor Steve Womack and Raymond Burns, the CEO and president of the Rogers Chamber of Commerce. James Duncan, president of Duncan Associates, the Texas firm that prepared a study of impact fees for the city that includes suggested fees for Rogers, says impact fees are an equitable way to allow developers to help pay for infrastructure needed because of the growth.
The Arkansas Department of Health and Human Services expects to obtain enough anti-virals by March 2007 to be able to treat 600,000 of the state’s 2.7 million residents in case there is a pandemic flu, the state’s deputy health officer told lawmakers Monday.
While campaigning for President in Iowa, Gov. Mike Huckabee said Monday that if he were Iowa’s governor he likely would have signed into law a measure putting new restrictions on the ability of local governments to seize property for economic development.
Springdale voters today will consider building a 6,000-seat stadium that would provide a venue for Springdale to bring professional baseball back to Northwest Arkansas.
The Forrest City Times-Herald reports on a lawsuit seeking to overturn the results of a run-off election in the Senate District 16 race between Jack Crumbly and Arnell Willis. The lawsuit also seeks to oust Jack Crumbly, who was declared the winner in the race for Senate District 16, and ask for a special election and other relief.
The sister of a developmentally disabled man who died after a fight with employees at a state institution in April has sued the Department of Health and Human Services because the agency did not release records about the death that she believes to be public.
Two Eureka Springs police officers are accused in a federal lawsuit of using excessive force against a man who cursed them during an altercation following a traffic stop. Kevin Ray Pruitt, according to the suit, started cursing the officers after receiving a ticket for a minor traffic violation last July. Pruitt maintains cursing a police officer is a protected form of free speech under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The state Board of Education on Monday approved the immediate annexation of the Altheimer school system into the neighboring Dollarway School District, though both districts are on the state’s financially troubled list.
The Academics Plus charter school in Maumelle has enough students enrolled for the new school year and will be financially solvent, according to the State Department of Education. More than 330 enrolled for classes.
There was a public hearing on the issue of impact fees in Rogers by local developers, Mayor Steve Womack and Raymond Burns, the CEO and president of the Rogers Chamber of Commerce. James Duncan, president of Duncan Associates, the Texas firm that prepared a study of impact fees for the city that includes suggested fees for Rogers, says impact fees are an equitable way to allow developers to help pay for infrastructure needed because of the growth.
