Gov. Mike Beebe’s comment yesterday that the state Veteran’s Department has to determine if it can remain in the nursing home business applies only to the department’s smaller nursing home in Little Rock, spokesman Matt DeCample confirmed early Friday afternoon. The larger Fayetteville Veterans Home is financed differently, is eligible for more federal funds such [...]
View Post Fayetteville Veterans HomeThis months campaign finance reports are dribbling in. The first available this morning is from Democratic candidate for State Senate District 7, Diana Gonzales Worthen. Others will get some comment as they come available. Worthen will face the winner of the GOP primary between Sen. Bill Pritchard, R-Elkins, and Rep. Jon Woods, R-Springdale. Worthen raised [...]
View Post Bill Pritchard, David Whitaker, Diana Gonzales Worthen, Jon Woods, Maylon Rice, Paul GrahamROGERS — President Barack Obama has handed Republican challenger Mitt Romney a “potent weapon” by expressing personal support for allowing same-sex marriage, recent presidential contender Rick Santorum said Friday. “This is a very potent weapon for Gov. Romeny if he is willing to step up and make the case on how important this is to [...]
View Post Benton County GOP, Rick SantorumAbout 100 people gathered Wednesday outside the Mount Sequoyah home Dan Coody and his wife Deborah are building to hear Fayetteville’s former mayor officially launch his 2012 campaign for the city’s chief executive office. Coody, who served as mayor from 2001 to 2009 before losing a reelection bid to Mayor Lioneld Jordan, didn’t mention Jordan [...]
View PostCrossland Construction Co., along with businesses and individuals affiliated with it, contributed $8,000 of the $10,300 the Bart Hester campaign took in from mid-March to mid-April, campaign financial records show. Hester is running in the GOP primary for the state Senate, District 1 seat against Rep. Tim Summers, R-Bentonville. Hester’s contributors included three members of [...]
View Post Bart Hester, Tim SummersThe group trying to get a wet/dry question on Benton County ballots in November is about 5,000 signatures away from the required 40,000, according to a news release. The group, Keep Dollars in Benton County, has been gathering signatures since February. It has the backing of Tom and Steuart Walton. “We have been extremely pleased [...]
View PostAutomated calls telling voters that Rep. Tim Summers, R-Bentonville, supports “Obamacare” are “a flat-out lie,” Summers said Friday. Summers is a candidate in the GOP primary for state Senate District 1. He said Friday that an automated telephone poll asks voters if they would still vote for him if they knew he supported Obamacare, leaving [...]
View Post Bart Hester, Tim SummersFormer presidential candidate Rick Santorum has reaffirmed that he is still scheduled to speak at the Benton County Lincoln Day Dinner fundraiser, but the location is changed back to the Embassy Suites in Rogers, according to an announcement by organizers. Tickets can be purchased online at www.bentoncountygop.org or by phone from Jim Kippen 479-656-3301 or [...]
View Post Benton Couty GOP, Rick SantorumUniversity chancellor David Gearhart drew a standing ovation from 160 of the region and state’s most prominent citizens when he said Wednesday evening: “I’ve never been more proud of Jeff Long and the people of Arkansas in my life.” Gearhart was making one of his first speeches after the firing of the university’s head football [...]
View Post Northwest Arkansas Council, University of ArkansasThe state Highway Commission, the Arkansas Economic Development Commission and the state Parks, Recreation and Travel Commission will meet jointly to at the Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville beginning at 8:30 a.m. Thursday. The commissions will hear a presentation from museum staff and discuss ways the three state commissions and the agencies they oversee can [...]
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