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		<title>UPDATE Panel OKs $165,000 salary for new lottery director</title>
		<link>http://arkansasnews.com/2012/03/13/panel-oks-165000-salary-for-new-lottery-director/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LITTLE ROCK — The legislative committee that oversees the state lottery today approved a $165,000 annual salary for the program's new director.]]></description>
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		<title>Session ends; Williams elected House speaker</title>
		<link>http://arkansasnews.com/2012/03/09/session-ends-williams-elected-house-speaker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LITTLE ROCK — The Legislature formally ended its 2012 fiscal session today, and the House later elected Rep. Darrin Williams, D-Little Rock, as speaker-designate for the 89th General Assembly, which will convene in January.]]></description>
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		<title>Secretary of state: Smith to appear on ballot despite felony</title>
		<link>http://arkansasnews.com/2012/03/07/secretary-of-state-smith-to-appear-on-ballot-despite-felony/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LITTLE ROCK — The office of Secretary of State Mark Martin today directed Crittenden County election officials to place Fred Smith’s name on the ballot as a state House candidate despite his conviction last year for felony the]]></description>
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		<title>Youth no obstacle for House minority leader</title>
		<link>http://arkansasnews.com/2012/02/26/youth-no-obstacle-for-house-minority-leader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 07:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jlyon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LITTLE ROCK — Improbably, the wrangling over budget cuts that marked the first two weeks of the fiscal session pitted the governor and House speaker, both in their 60s and both veterans of state government, against the Legislature’s youngest member.]]></description>
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		<title>House, Senate clear way for budget consideration</title>
		<link>http://arkansasnews.com/2012/02/23/house-clears-way-for-budget-consideration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jjefferson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LITTLE ROCK — The House and Senate today cleared the way for legislators to consider a budget for the next fiscal year.

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		<title>Political filing period begins</title>
		<link>http://arkansasnews.com/2012/02/23/political-filing-period-begins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas’ 2012 election season formally began today amid traditional pageantry and new expectations of a political sea change in perhaps the last Democratic bastion in the South.]]></description>
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		<title>UPDATE Beebe: GOP budget plan mostly ‘non-starter’</title>
		<link>http://arkansasnews.com/2012/02/21/beebe-gop-budget-plan-mostly-non-starter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jlyon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LITTLE ROCK — A Republican proposal to cut $21 million from Gov. Mike Beebe’s $4.7 billion proposed budget for the next fiscal year is mostly unacceptable, Beebe said today.]]></description>
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		<title>Capitol briefs: Budget panel refers school takeover to subcommittee</title>
		<link>http://arkansasnews.com/2012/02/21/budget-panel-refers-school-takeover-to-subcommittee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jlyon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Joint Budget Committee today referred to a subcommittee an amendment to the state Department of Education’s budget that would increase from two years to five the time the department can maintain control over a fiscally distressed school districts taken over by the state. ]]></description>
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		<title>UPDATE House GOP leader defends budget proposal</title>
		<link>http://arkansasnews.com/2012/02/20/house-gop-leader-defends-budget-proposal/</link>
		<comments>http://arkansasnews.com/2012/02/20/house-gop-leader-defends-budget-proposal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jjefferson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LITTLE ROCK — The Republican leader in the state House said today he expects a negative reaction from state agencies to the budget proposal he unveiled last week, but he insisted his plan is achievable without layoffs or reduced services.]]></description>
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		<title>State lawmakers not giving up on raise for state workers</title>
		<link>http://arkansasnews.com/2012/01/31/state-lawmakers-not-giving-up-on-raise-for-state-workers/</link>
		<comments>http://arkansasnews.com/2012/01/31/state-lawmakers-not-giving-up-on-raise-for-state-workers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jlyon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LITTLE ROCK — The co-chairmen of the legislative Joint Budget Committee said today that legislators have not given up on the idea of finding a way to provide a cost-of-living adjustment for state employees in the next fiscal year.]]></description>
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