Monday, August 28, 2006
Monday missives
Publishing a timeline for withdrawing from Iraq isn't a good idea, but military officials should have one in a drawer at the Pentagon, Arkansas' junior senator told the Jonesboro Sun.
A year after 75,000 stunned and weary Hurricane Katrina evacuees showed up at Arkansas' door and received a helping hand, state charities are still helping the needy as state -- and Northwest Arkansas -- officials re-evaluate emergency plans. According to the Morning News of Northwest Arkansas, charitable groups still provide assistance to an estimated 30,000 evacuees who remain in the state.
Riverfront communities in Arkansas already flooded with financial burdens are learning they can add the costs associated with levee certification to their lists. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is requiring communities and levee districts to certify that their levees meet current design and construction standards. 15 counties are currently conducting levee mapping studies and more will be added to the FEMA list in coming years.
A Howard County woman is suing Nashville, Ark., its mayor and City Council members, claiming she was fired after she exercised her First Amendment rights by discussing the city’s finances Pam McLaughlin, former city finance director, filed a federal lawsuit in Texarkana.
Fayetteville police say they've arrested six women on prostitution charges and three men for promoting prostitution. Officers said the arrests stemmed from an investigation that focused on so-called escort services.
An official with the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps says the anti-illegal immigration group is not limited to work in border states and is helping form a chapter in Arkansas. Greg Thompson, a retired Oklahoma City advertisingexecutive, is the group's national development director, and plans to visit Hot Springs on Tuesday for an organizational meeting. The group is known for its citizen patrols of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Livestock owners are scrambling to find fall and winter feed supplements as scorching temperatures and little rain are drying up most of Arkansas’ hay harvests.
A federal investigation of families of migrant workers employed in Arkansas poultry plants found that nearly all of the school-age children are ineligible for U.S. education assistance. The audit estimates that 3,127 out of Arkansas’ 3,191 migrant children are ineligible and calls on the state to reimburse $877,000 spent on them.
A 20-year veteran of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration testified Saturday about more than a dozen “red flags” that popped up in the past 30 years alerting Wyeth Pharmaceuticals to potential links between its hormone drugs and breast cancer.
Memphis could be landing another Fortune 500 company as Chicago-based ServiceMaster Co. is considering relocating its corporate headquarters and about 170 executives. The provider of housecleaning, pest control and landscaping services already employs more than 2,000 people in Memphis, but it has maintained its corporate headquarters in the Chicago suburb of Downers Grove.
After eight years on the Bassmaster tour, Little Rock resident Scott Rook finally won a tournament, and Hollywood couldn’t have scripted a more dramatic finish.
Hot Springs officials used the National Park Service’s 90th anniversary Friday to announce that the federal agency was negotiating with the Museum of Contemporary Art-Hot Springs to reopen the Ozark Bathhouse as a modernart museum.
Seen as a signal of the Gulf Coast's recovery, a redesigned Beau Rivage Resort & Casino is set to open Tuesday in Biloxi, exactly a year after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the coast. Island View Casino Resort, Gulfport's only casino, is preparing to open, unveiling the first of two phases of construction September 18.
A year after 75,000 stunned and weary Hurricane Katrina evacuees showed up at Arkansas' door and received a helping hand, state charities are still helping the needy as state -- and Northwest Arkansas -- officials re-evaluate emergency plans. According to the Morning News of Northwest Arkansas, charitable groups still provide assistance to an estimated 30,000 evacuees who remain in the state.
Riverfront communities in Arkansas already flooded with financial burdens are learning they can add the costs associated with levee certification to their lists. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is requiring communities and levee districts to certify that their levees meet current design and construction standards. 15 counties are currently conducting levee mapping studies and more will be added to the FEMA list in coming years.
A Howard County woman is suing Nashville, Ark., its mayor and City Council members, claiming she was fired after she exercised her First Amendment rights by discussing the city’s finances Pam McLaughlin, former city finance director, filed a federal lawsuit in Texarkana.
Fayetteville police say they've arrested six women on prostitution charges and three men for promoting prostitution. Officers said the arrests stemmed from an investigation that focused on so-called escort services.
An official with the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps says the anti-illegal immigration group is not limited to work in border states and is helping form a chapter in Arkansas. Greg Thompson, a retired Oklahoma City advertisingexecutive, is the group's national development director, and plans to visit Hot Springs on Tuesday for an organizational meeting. The group is known for its citizen patrols of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Livestock owners are scrambling to find fall and winter feed supplements as scorching temperatures and little rain are drying up most of Arkansas’ hay harvests.
A federal investigation of families of migrant workers employed in Arkansas poultry plants found that nearly all of the school-age children are ineligible for U.S. education assistance. The audit estimates that 3,127 out of Arkansas’ 3,191 migrant children are ineligible and calls on the state to reimburse $877,000 spent on them.
A 20-year veteran of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration testified Saturday about more than a dozen “red flags” that popped up in the past 30 years alerting Wyeth Pharmaceuticals to potential links between its hormone drugs and breast cancer.
Memphis could be landing another Fortune 500 company as Chicago-based ServiceMaster Co. is considering relocating its corporate headquarters and about 170 executives. The provider of housecleaning, pest control and landscaping services already employs more than 2,000 people in Memphis, but it has maintained its corporate headquarters in the Chicago suburb of Downers Grove.
After eight years on the Bassmaster tour, Little Rock resident Scott Rook finally won a tournament, and Hollywood couldn’t have scripted a more dramatic finish.
Hot Springs officials used the National Park Service’s 90th anniversary Friday to announce that the federal agency was negotiating with the Museum of Contemporary Art-Hot Springs to reopen the Ozark Bathhouse as a modernart museum.
Seen as a signal of the Gulf Coast's recovery, a redesigned Beau Rivage Resort & Casino is set to open Tuesday in Biloxi, exactly a year after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the coast. Island View Casino Resort, Gulfport's only casino, is preparing to open, unveiling the first of two phases of construction September 18.
