07/11/11 Gov. Mike Beebe says state legislators should set aside most of Arkansas' $94 million budget surplus to help the state cope with a projected Medicaid shortfall, but some legislative leaders have other ideas for the money.
07/11/11 How should Arkansas spend its extra $94 million dollars? Democratic Governor Mike Beebe and other lawmakers say it should go to Medicaid, which faces a budget shortfall of over $200 million over the next two years.
07/11/11 Governor Beebe recently joined U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood near State Highway 72 to mark the beginning of construction on the Bella Vista Bypass and the Northwest Arkansas Razorback Regional Greenway.
07/10/11 Arkansas legislators and Gov. Mike Beebe have different ideas about how to use Arkansas' $94 million budget surplus, the Arkansas News Bureau reported Sunday.
07/10/11 The U.S. beat Brazil on penalty kicks in the quarterfinals of the Women's World Cup in Dresden, Germany.
07/08/11 Further expansion of the Central Arkansas Transportation Study, a long-range planning tool of Metroplan, would make Lonoke in Lonoke County eligible to join Metroplan.
07/06/11 Republicans oppose raising taxes on the rich and corporations and, in fact, want to reduce or eliminate them, but they do not want to cut significant spending or else they want the president or the governor to do it and take the blame. by Ernest Dumas Republicans want it both ways n Nine years ago, in one of his liberal phases, Gov. Mike Huckabee offered a proverb that describes perfectly the ...
07/06/11 U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood is scheduled to be in Northwest Arkansas on Friday to help dedicate the Bella Vista Bypass and the Razorback Greenway Trail projects.
07/06/11 Governor Beebe recently rode in the Piggott 4th of July Parade and attended the Corning Homecoming Picnic.
07/05/11 Leave it to a state financial report to bring a summer surprise of sorts. Arkansas's 2011 fiscal year ended with a nearly $94 million dollar surplus. "I can't help but smile about it, but I think we need to be cautious," Governor Mike Beebe told the Downtown Rotary Club of Little Rock on Tuesday.
07/05/11 It was a good week for: Dr. Jerry Guess, Shane Broadway, Mireya Reith, economic recovery and Arkansas taxpayers. It was a bad week for Yarnell's Ice Cream and Gov. Mike Beebe. June 29-July 5 It was a good week for... DR. JERRY GUESS. The state Department of Education hired Guess, 60, to run the Pulaski County School District for $215,000 a year. He leaves Camden Fairview, where he successfully ...
07/05/11 Perhaps some day, Gov. Mike Beebe's grandchildren will feel ashamed at his support of discrimination against gays and lesbians. by Max Brantley Gov. Mike Beebe last week spoke to Stonewall Democrats, whose money he rejected in 2010 because the group represents gays and lesbians in Arkansas. He told them he opposed same-sex marriage and civil unions. He tacitly supported Arkansas law that allows ...
06/27/11 Approximately 300 people at a Tyson Foods chicken processing plant in northwest Arkansas were evacuated and 173 were sent to local hospitals after an accidental mixture of chemicals created a chlorine gas inside part of the facility.
06/27/11 Crews rehabilitating arch columns on a railroad overpass on LaHarpe Boulevard (Highway 10) in downtown Little Rock will require a lane closure this week, according to Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department (AHTD) officials.
06/23/11 A spokesman for Gov. Mike Beebe says $35 million in tax cuts approved during this year's legislative session is the reason for the cuts.
06/22/11 A spokesman for Gov. Mike Beebe says Beebe will try to repeal a tax break for truckers if a proposed diesel tax increase isn't approved.
06/22/11 Beebe spokesman Grant Tennille told KUAR that the governor always considered the tax break passed this year to be contingent on passage of the diesel tax.
06/22/11 LITTLE ROCK, AR - The Governor says he's pulling his support for a tax cut for the trucking industry. The move comes after the trucking industry yanked its support for a diesel tax hike.
06/21/11 Martin on Tuesday told fellow board members Gov. Mike Beebe and Attorney General Dustin McDaniel that he believes the three of them should be present at the final public hearing.
06/21/11 Republican Secretary of State Mark Martin , still trying hard to get a piece of a legislative redistricting process controlled by the two Democratic members of the three-person Board of Apportionment, has a modest proposal. To date, public hearings on redistricting have been conducted by the hired staff. Martin proposes the big shots conduct the hearing at least once. He proposes that the king ... | 
