Fort Smith Deputy City Administrator Ray Gosack has been a busy man the last couple of days.

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LITTLE ROCK – Ray Hobbs, longtime chief deputy director of the state Department of Correction, was named director of the system Tuesday.

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Greenwood Police Chief Keith Jackson, along with 259 other law enforcement executives, graduated from the FBI National Academy Program at Quantico, Va., on June 18.

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A Fort Smith man who crashed his car into a local residence Sunday is accused of driving while intoxicated.

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The state election law has the deck stacked against third parties which have to collect signatures each election cycle and jump through certain hoops in order to be recognized. This year the Green Party was the only third party to make it. The Secretary of State certified their petition this morning after the Green Party [...]

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Shortly after Lt. Gov. Bill Halter lost to Sen. Blanche Lincoln in the Democratic runoff, Daily Kos – which had previously posted polls showing Halter with a slight lead – fired its pollster Research 2000.  Today, the blog is saying that the polls were “likely bunk.” “We were defrauded by Research 2000, and while we don’t [...]

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According to National Journal’s Hotline blog, the Republican National Committee will consider some changes to the Presidential primary calendar that will effect the nomination process for 2012. The temporary delegate selection committee met yesterday via teleconference and will propose changes to the full RNC in August for an up or down vote (no amendments allowed.) Reportedly, [...]

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Arkansas Election Line, a joint project of Roby Brock of Talk Business and Blake Rutherford of Blake’s Think Tank, looks this morning at the statewide constitutional offices. In the race for Governor between incumbent Democrat Gov. Mike Beebe and Republican Jim Keet, we have this race as “Safe Beebe.” By keeping his first term focused on Arkansas [...]

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Mike Huckabee appeared this weekend on Fox News Sunday discussing whether he would run for President in 2012 (video edits from Politico.)  He continues to hint at it without directly saying if he will. “I haven’t closed the door. I think that would be foolish on my part, especially when poll after poll shows that there [...]

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As expected, news is trickling in on how the compromise to Sen. Lincoln’s derivative provision went down. I spoke a few minutes ago with Sen. Lincoln’s Ag Committee communications director Courtney Rowe who wanted to clarify a few items. First of all, while she admitted that Lincoln had to compromise from her original bill, they still [...]

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