Monday, September 18, 2006
Marvelous Monday
About 4,000 customers around Arkansas lost electricity Sunday night after thunderstorms rolled through the state, officials said.
Two candidates for governor will meet tonight in a joint forum on Jonesboro television. The Hutchinson and Beebe campaigns had previously arranged the ground rules, which among other things, exclude independent candidate Rod Bryan and Green Party nominee Jim Lendall.
Forty-one of Arkansas 245 public school districts are seeking increases in the rate used to figure property taxes -- a major source of funding for Arkansas schools. The districts are asking voters to approve millage increases Tuesday.
In a case that has been closely watched across the country, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals has won a victory against a Benton woman who claimed that the company’s hormone drugs caused her breast cancer.
The state body that investigates judicial misconduct will proceed with an inquiry into whether Appeals Court Judge Wendell Griffen violated rules restricting judges’ public speech, officials said Friday.
A legislative committee voted Friday to increase the daily tax-free payment, or “per diem,” lawmakers get for attending meetings The Arkansas Legislative Council approved raising the per diem from $125 per day for meetings in Little Rock to $130 per day.
Rev. Benny Johnson, A member of the task force that recommended that Pulaski County ask voters to approve the sales-tax increase that failed at the polls this week now says the state should bail out the county’s financially troubled jail. Both Gov. Mike Huckabee and County Judge Buddy Villines say that isn’t going to happen.
Members of the Arkansas Legislative Council on Friday questioned whether the state could afford to support an irrigation project with an unknown price tag and told the state agency in charge of it that an independent review shouldn’t add too much to that cost The council ordered the independent review last month because the most recent cost estimate of the Grand Prairie Irrigation Project, which puts its sticker value at $319 million, is nine years old.
Ted Holder and Joe van den Heuvel have became the first gay couple in Arkansas to have their relationship blessed inside an Episcopal church. The Rev. Ed Wills, priest in charge at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in west Little Rock, presided at a service.
A double homicide Sunday afternoon is under investigation in Howard County near Nashville. The relationship of the victims is unknown. Law enforcement officials from Nashville, Howard County and state police are involved in the investigation.
Pine Bluff District Five Justice of the Peace Richard Hall was arrested Friday afternoon after he allegedly pointed a handgun at several people, including a police officer.
United Steelworkers’ demand that the Dutch banking giant, ING Group, use its influence to end the 13-month strike at National Wire Fabric at Star City, so far, seems to have fallen on deaf ears. It is the longest strike in Arkansas history.
Addressing monthly water bills topping $800 for some customers, the mayor of Tull acknowledged last week he had some kinks to work out with the water service provided by his Grant County town. “It started about three months ago,” Mayor Frank Gilbert said. That’s when Tull Water began buying its water from Malvern, switching over from Benton.
A 1998 graduate of Forrest City High School has made it onto ‘American Idol.’ According to the Paper Trails column in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, LaTanza Meabon-Whiteside, a member of the 314th Airlift Wing, Maintenance Squadron, has been selected for the popular Fox television show.
Two candidates for governor will meet tonight in a joint forum on Jonesboro television. The Hutchinson and Beebe campaigns had previously arranged the ground rules, which among other things, exclude independent candidate Rod Bryan and Green Party nominee Jim Lendall.
Forty-one of Arkansas 245 public school districts are seeking increases in the rate used to figure property taxes -- a major source of funding for Arkansas schools. The districts are asking voters to approve millage increases Tuesday.
In a case that has been closely watched across the country, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals has won a victory against a Benton woman who claimed that the company’s hormone drugs caused her breast cancer.
The state body that investigates judicial misconduct will proceed with an inquiry into whether Appeals Court Judge Wendell Griffen violated rules restricting judges’ public speech, officials said Friday.
A legislative committee voted Friday to increase the daily tax-free payment, or “per diem,” lawmakers get for attending meetings The Arkansas Legislative Council approved raising the per diem from $125 per day for meetings in Little Rock to $130 per day.
Rev. Benny Johnson, A member of the task force that recommended that Pulaski County ask voters to approve the sales-tax increase that failed at the polls this week now says the state should bail out the county’s financially troubled jail. Both Gov. Mike Huckabee and County Judge Buddy Villines say that isn’t going to happen.
Members of the Arkansas Legislative Council on Friday questioned whether the state could afford to support an irrigation project with an unknown price tag and told the state agency in charge of it that an independent review shouldn’t add too much to that cost The council ordered the independent review last month because the most recent cost estimate of the Grand Prairie Irrigation Project, which puts its sticker value at $319 million, is nine years old.
Ted Holder and Joe van den Heuvel have became the first gay couple in Arkansas to have their relationship blessed inside an Episcopal church. The Rev. Ed Wills, priest in charge at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in west Little Rock, presided at a service.
A double homicide Sunday afternoon is under investigation in Howard County near Nashville. The relationship of the victims is unknown. Law enforcement officials from Nashville, Howard County and state police are involved in the investigation.
Pine Bluff District Five Justice of the Peace Richard Hall was arrested Friday afternoon after he allegedly pointed a handgun at several people, including a police officer.
United Steelworkers’ demand that the Dutch banking giant, ING Group, use its influence to end the 13-month strike at National Wire Fabric at Star City, so far, seems to have fallen on deaf ears. It is the longest strike in Arkansas history.
Addressing monthly water bills topping $800 for some customers, the mayor of Tull acknowledged last week he had some kinks to work out with the water service provided by his Grant County town. “It started about three months ago,” Mayor Frank Gilbert said. That’s when Tull Water began buying its water from Malvern, switching over from Benton.
A 1998 graduate of Forrest City High School has made it onto ‘American Idol.’ According to the Paper Trails column in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, LaTanza Meabon-Whiteside, a member of the 314th Airlift Wing, Maintenance Squadron, has been selected for the popular Fox television show.
