Mike Malone, executive director of the Northwest Arkansas Council, was named to the state’s nine-member lottery commission moments ago by House Speaker Robbie Wills, D-Conway. Before coming back home to Fayetteville, Malone was deputy assistant to the president for management and administration and later director of White House Operations during President Clinton’s administration. Malone’s the son [...]
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Not only are the mechanics of the lottery being revealed in drafts today, but the plan for the scholarships came out at the Little Rock Political Animals meeting too. The level of scholarships the lottery will fund will be set using a kind of sliding scale, House Speaker Robbie Wills, D-Conway, told the group meeting at [...]
Monday, January 5, 2009
THE MORNING NEWS LITTLE ROCK — The 87th General Assembly convenes Jan. 12 in economic times so uncertain that Gov. Mike Beebe’s fallback plan for balancing the state budget includes using one-time money for ongoing human services needs. Still, the governor will try to push a further reduction in the state sales tax on groceries through the [...]
Monday, January 5, 2009
By James Jefferson LITTLE ROCK — Mike Beebe began his first legislative session as governor two years ago with the state awash in extra money. This time around, he’ll be pinching pennies. With a surplus close to $1 billion in 2007, Beebe earmarked nearly half for renovating dilapidated public school buildings and equipment and still managed to cut [...]
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
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