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Updated: May 22, 2013 6:12pm
LITTLE ROCK — Lower than anticipated tuition-hike recommendations will force some budget reductions and, in some cases, possibly layoffs, University of Arkansas System chancellors said Wednesday.The UA Board of Trustees on Thursday will consider...
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Updated: May 22, 2013 4:03pm
LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas said Wednesday it has acquired office space in downtown Little Rock.
“This space will give us the much-needed flexibility to carry on official university business in an area where we have a large...
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Updated: May 22, 2013 6:34pm
LITTLE ROCK — Gov. Mike Beebe said Wednesday he has met with possible replacements for former state Treasurer Martha Shoffner, who resigned Tuesday amid an federal extortion charge, and will make an appointment in the coming days.
“We’re...
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Updated: May 21, 2013 6:17pm
LITTLE ROCK — State Treasurer Martha Shoffner resigned Tuesday, a day after appearing in federal court to face an extortion charge.
In a letter to Gov. Mike Beebe, Shoffner said she tendered her resignation “with great sadness.”
“I am...
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Updated: May 21, 2013 5:35pm
LITTLE ROCK — The president of the University of Arkansas System said Tuesday he will recommend to UA trustees this week that all of the system’s 11 campuses opt out of a new law that allows college faculty and staff with permits to carry a...
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May 21, 2013 5:00pm
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration Tuesday threatened to veto legislation pending before the House that would allow construction of the Keystone XL pipeline without presidential approval.
House Republican leaders plan to move forward...
