FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Media Contact: Alice Stewart 501-351-3954 Secretary Martin Reminds Arkansas Businesses of Midnight Monday, May 2, Franchise Tax Deadline LITTLE ROCK, Ark.- Arkansas Secretary of State Mark Martin reminds Arkansas businesses they have until Monday, May 2, at midnight to file annual reports and pay franchise taxes to the Secretary of State’s Business and Com…

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Arkansas Department of Emergency Management BLACK RIVER FLOODING: At Pocahontas The readers take over. (Watching “Friday Night Lights?” I got the whole seaon on Netflix and gorged on it in about two sittings. I may rewatch.) Other notes: * ELIZABETH WARREN: My favorite member of the Obama administration is coming to town May 5 to speak at the [...]

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www.kait8.com ACCIDENT SCENE: In Manila Arkansas state trooper Andrew Rhew struck a plea bargain this week with Special Prosecutor Will Feland over the death of a motorist killed in a Mississippi County wreck when Rhew was responding to a call in Osceola. Rhew was driving 103 miles an hour, according to the “black box” that records [...]

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LITTLE ROCK — The death toll from the storms and tornadoes that rolled through the state this week has been raised to 14, state emergency management officials said today.

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We also talk about the relative lack of outrage at the Republican’s budget blueprint and the search for a UA system chief, but you’ll especially want to listen all the way to the end to get a snippet of Max singing “Sunday Morning Coming Down.” Download here. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

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Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels will sign a bill stripping federal money from Planned Parenthood in Indiana. One of the first casualties: About 500 pap tests a week for poor women. This is known as pro-life. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

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This is another one of those articles of faith that no amount of factual refutation will dispel. But new studies show “high” state tax rates don’t drive away wealthy residents. Oh, there are the occasional greedheads who’ll flee to Florida or Texas from Arkansas for a time to shelter some windfall profit-taking on capital gains, [...]

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We also talk about the relative lack of outrage at the Republican’s budget blueprint and the search for a UA system chief, but you’ll especially want to listen all the way to the end to get a snippet of Max singing “Sunday Morning Coming Down.” Download here. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

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Business alumni at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith shared their advice and experiences in transitioning from the classroom to the work world when they met with current students April 27 for a

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