No time to “editorialize” this morning (LOL might be best anyway) but these are stories that I thought you wouldn’t want to miss~ All of these stories are taken directly from the source.
After a five-year absence, a span that included two Cotton Bowl berths and a national championship, the Razorbacks were back in New Orleans to play in the 1969 Sugar Bowl.
Arkansas leaned on the passing combination of quarterback Bill Montgomery and split end Chuck Dicus, as well as a stingy defense, to beat coach Vince Dooley and Georgia. Read more…
U.S. Rep.-elect Steve Womack, R-Rogers, continues to add to his Congressional responsibilities.
Womack was asked Thursday (Dec. 30) by U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., if he would serve as a member of the exclusive whip team. McCarthy will be the House GOP whip during the next Congress, which makes him the No. 3 Republican leader in the House. Read more…
Womack was asked Thursday (Dec. 30) by U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., if he would serve as a member of the exclusive whip team. McCarthy will be the House GOP whip during the next Congress, which makes him the No. 3 Republican leader in the House. Read more…
BEEBE, AR – Ringing in the New Year took on a different meaning for the citizens of Beebe. Beginning at around 11:30pm, enforcement officers with Arkansas Game and Fish Commission began getting reports of dead black birds falling from the sky in the city limits of Beebe.
Dick Baxter with the Game and Fish Commission estimates that 2000-2500 birds fell out of the sky over the city. Most of the birds were dead, but some were still alive when officers arrived. Three different types of blackbirds fell over a one-mile area in the city. Read more…
Dick Baxter with the Game and Fish Commission estimates that 2000-2500 birds fell out of the sky over the city. Most of the birds were dead, but some were still alive when officers arrived. Three different types of blackbirds fell over a one-mile area in the city. Read more…
Nelson expects to seek initiated act for severance tax hike
Facing disappointing returns from the newly increased state severance tax and bad prospects for another hike by the Legislature, Sheffield Nelson is gearing for a possible drive to put the matter to a public vote in 2012.
Nelson, a former gas company executive and gubernatorial candidate, wants to raise the levy on the natural gas exploration companies extract in the state to 7 percent — the same as he proposed three years ago before deferring to Gov. Mike Beebe, who successfully pushed a 5 percent hike in an April 2008 special session.
Industry officials, who cautioned prior to the 2008 increase that raising the severance tax would slow investments in new exploration in the state, were reserved in comments about Nelson’s talk of the need for a new tax hike.
Vexation over public employee unions rises
(This story appears in the NWA Times and to read the entire story you must have a paid subscription)
Across the nation, a rising irritation with public employee unions is palpable, as a wounded economy has blown gaping holes in state, city and town budgets and revealed that some public pension funds dangle perilously close to bankruptcy.
In California, New York, Michigan and New Jersey, states where public unions wield much power and the culture historically tends to be pro-labor, even longtime liberal political leaders have demanded concessions - wage freezes, benefit cuts and tougher work rules.
It is an angry conversation. Union chiefs, who sometimes persuaded members to take pension sweeteners in lieu of raises, are loath to surrender ground. Read more…
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Today's Sugar Bowl notebook: Jerico Nelson happy at home, Jake Bequette looks into NFL, Terrelle Pryor speaks out — http://bit.ly/ePrX9x
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More Than 1000 Dead Birds Fall From Sky In Arkansas - WFMY News 2 http://goo.gl/fb/3IRhO
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