Utility assistance still available Central Arkansas Development Council is accepting applications for CRISIS Low-Income Home Energy Assistance. Applications for regular assistance will be accepted through Thursday.

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Austin City Council members tabled consideration of an ordinance restricting open burning and creation of a burn permit. There are too many questions about enforcement of the proposed ordinance, councilman James Moore said during the Monday council meeting.

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Standard images of college spring break are of parties on the beach and other raucous living. Not so well known is the Alternative Spring Break, in which students work with Habitat for Humanity, LaCasa, Harvest Time International and other nonprofits throughout the country.

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Austin City Council members tabled consideration of an ordinance restricting open burning and creation of a burn permit. There are too many questions about enforcement of the proposed ordinance, councilman James Moore said during the Monday council meeting.

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Standard images of college spring break are of parties on the beach and other raucous living. Not so well known is the Alternative Spring Break, in which students work with Habitat for Humanity, LaCasa, Harvest Time International and other nonprofits throughout the country.

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It is clear this morning that the House is at an impasse on the appropriation for budget for the State Insurance Department – HB1226.  Democrats says that Republicans are blocking the funds and threatening to shut down this critical department.  Republicans insist they stand ready to pass the budget if an amendment is allow that [...]

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The House State Agencies passed a new pig trail map out of committee today this time with 12 votes instead of 11 meaning they brought Rep. John Vines (D – Hot Springs) on board by putting Garland County fully back into the fourth.  Lots of other ins and out to try and whip their votes [...]

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It is almost hard to take the press release today from the Democratic Party of Arkansas on the poll I commissioned on the their proposed redistricting map seriously.  Unable to dispute the findings that almost 82 percent of Fayetteville voters oppose the plan to move them from their current Congressional district consisting primarily of northwest [...]

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One of the biggest tools that the minority party (currently Republicans) have in the Arkansas House of Representatives is to block appropriation as these bills need 75 votes to pass. Today, Republicans flexed their muscles by blocking the appropriation for the State Insurance Department largely on a party line vote – 53 to 41 roll [...]

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The Arkansas General Assembly is currently considering a Congressional redistricting proposal that would move Fayetteville from the Third Congressional District of northwest Arkansas into the Fourth Congressional District that historically has included primarily south Arkansas.  However, a poll commissioned by the Tolbert Report and conducted by Diamond State Consulting shows overwhelming opposition to the proposal [...]

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