Monday, January 22, 2007
Monday early summary
Legislators will get to see what has been described as the road map for education adequacy this week, and will debate legislation loosening restrictions on using deadly force. On Monday, the House and Senate Education committees were expected to receive the latest report on recommendations for improving Arkansas' public schools.
Gov. Mike Beebe says he thought it was unusual that his predecessor used the last money left in the governor’s emergency fund to crush the hard drives of computers left in his office. The Governor’s Emergency Fund, tapped by former Gov. Mike Huckabee to destroy his office hard drives before he left office, must be spent to remedy a riot, insurrection, sabotage or natural calamity, according to state law.
Flooding after heavy rains has made 12 Arkansas counties eligible for public assistance in paying for repairs to damaged roads and bridges, the governor’s office said Friday.
Former Gov. Mike Huckabee says that changing a state law requiring schools to track students’ body mass indexes would be a “huge step backwards” in battling obesity among children
Little Rock School officials described how the school system has evaluated the programs designed to raise the achievements of black students. The testimony came in weekend federal court hearings on the district’s request to be released from decades of court supervision over its desegregation efforts. Superintendent Roy Brooks testified that he did not know if inaccurate information was sent to federal monitors.
Most of the approximately 1,000 workers at Nuvell Financial Services in west Little Rock will lose their jobs over the next two years, according to a manager at the facility that services General Motors Acceptance Corp. loans.
Toyota Motor Corp.’s search for the site of its next automotive manufacturing plant is down to two locations - one near Marion in east Arkansas and the other at Chattanooga, Tenn.
Texas Gas Transmission plans to build a 167-mile $360 million natural gas pipeline in central Arkansas to transport newly discovered gas deposits in the Fayetteville Shale.
Arkansas’ exports to China surged by more than seven times in the past nine years, making the Asian country one of Arkansas’ fastest-growing export targets, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Questions about where the city will find money to implement the recommendations of a salary survey that could cost as much as $500,000 surfaced after the Pine Bluff City Council on Tuesday directed the head of human resources to develop a plan for implementing the survey by March.
The second and final phase of an electronic message system to help residents evacuate in case of a catastrophic event at the Pine Bluff Arsenal is now being installed along central Arkansas highways.
Doctors in Mississippi would be required to give a woman the chance to listen to her fetal or embryonic heartbeat and view a sonogram before undergoing an abortion, if some lawmakers get their way. Mississippi is one of several states wrestling with new abortion restrictions this year in what has become a perennial fight in many state capitols.
Gov. Mike Beebe says he thought it was unusual that his predecessor used the last money left in the governor’s emergency fund to crush the hard drives of computers left in his office. The Governor’s Emergency Fund, tapped by former Gov. Mike Huckabee to destroy his office hard drives before he left office, must be spent to remedy a riot, insurrection, sabotage or natural calamity, according to state law.
Flooding after heavy rains has made 12 Arkansas counties eligible for public assistance in paying for repairs to damaged roads and bridges, the governor’s office said Friday.
Former Gov. Mike Huckabee says that changing a state law requiring schools to track students’ body mass indexes would be a “huge step backwards” in battling obesity among children
Little Rock School officials described how the school system has evaluated the programs designed to raise the achievements of black students. The testimony came in weekend federal court hearings on the district’s request to be released from decades of court supervision over its desegregation efforts. Superintendent Roy Brooks testified that he did not know if inaccurate information was sent to federal monitors.
Most of the approximately 1,000 workers at Nuvell Financial Services in west Little Rock will lose their jobs over the next two years, according to a manager at the facility that services General Motors Acceptance Corp. loans.
Toyota Motor Corp.’s search for the site of its next automotive manufacturing plant is down to two locations - one near Marion in east Arkansas and the other at Chattanooga, Tenn.
Texas Gas Transmission plans to build a 167-mile $360 million natural gas pipeline in central Arkansas to transport newly discovered gas deposits in the Fayetteville Shale.
Arkansas’ exports to China surged by more than seven times in the past nine years, making the Asian country one of Arkansas’ fastest-growing export targets, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Questions about where the city will find money to implement the recommendations of a salary survey that could cost as much as $500,000 surfaced after the Pine Bluff City Council on Tuesday directed the head of human resources to develop a plan for implementing the survey by March.
The second and final phase of an electronic message system to help residents evacuate in case of a catastrophic event at the Pine Bluff Arsenal is now being installed along central Arkansas highways.
Doctors in Mississippi would be required to give a woman the chance to listen to her fetal or embryonic heartbeat and view a sonogram before undergoing an abortion, if some lawmakers get their way. Mississippi is one of several states wrestling with new abortion restrictions this year in what has become a perennial fight in many state capitols.
