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07/16/11 Gov. Mike Beebe on Tuesday said a possible financial default resulting from failure to raise the federal debt ceiling would create a financial disaster equal to a major earthquake along the New Madrid fault.
07/14/11 Gov. Mike Beebe submitted a proposal for redrawing 35 state Senate districts on Wednesday, a plan that would give Faulkner County representation from three senators. read more
07/14/11 Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe has proposed a plan to add a senate seat in Bentonville.
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.
07/10/11 Arkansas legislators and Gov. Mike Beebe have different ideas about how to use Arkansas' $94 million budget surplus, the Arkansas News Bureau reported Sunday.
07/08/11 The Associated Press The Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. A Fayetteville attorney plans to run for a position on the Arkansas Court of Appeals. Niki Cung says she'll run for Position 2, District 3 on the court, which covers Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson, Madison and Washington counties. The position is now held by Judge W. Douglas Martin, who was appointed by Gov. Mike Beebe to ...
07/07/11 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Gov. Mike Beebe says he plans to grant pardons to 11 people, including two people who were convicted over battery charges. Beebe's office said Thursday that all 11 have completed their jail time, met parole and probationary requirements and paid their fines.
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 ...
06/30/11 Gov. Mike Beebe on Thursday announced 48 appointments to boards and commissions.
06/29/11 It was inevitable, today's news in the Democrat-Gazette that Mike Beebe would tap his old Senate buddy Shane Broadway to continue as the permanent director of the state Higher Education Department. Broadway is a nice guy and an adept politician with a bachelor's degree (from Beebe's alma mater) at an agency more typically led by someone with higher academic credentials. Thoughts? It reminds me ...
06/28/11 Gee, an entire rainy day. I can turn on the oven tonight. The line is open. Stuff: * FRAUD SCHEME : Jeff Rand pleads guilty. Remember Tony Rand, once an NLR theater magnate who's had his own problems? His son. * BEEBE TELLS GAYS TO GO TO SOMEWHERE SHORT OF HELL: Interesting blogging from Kelly MacNeil and Roby Brock of Gov. Mike Beebe's meet with Stonewall Democrats, who got pissed with him in ...
06/24/11 Gov. Mike Beebe says 13 local programs will share nearly $70,000 in grants from Main Street Arkansas. Beebe announced Thursday that $69,329 will go to projects through the Main Street Arkansas Downtown Revitalization Grant program.
06/24/11 Gov. Mike Beebe says 13 local programs will share nearly $70,000 in grants from Main Street Arkansas.
06/24/11 Carroll, Chicot, Clark, Crawford, Dallas, Desha and Hot Spring counties have been added to the list of Arkansas counties authorized for Disaster Unemployment Assistance as a result of the severe storms, tornadoes and associated flooding that began on April 14, 2011. At the request of Gov. Mike Beebe, President Barack Obama previously declared Arkansas, Benton, Boone, Clay, Crittenden, Cross ...
06/23/11 Gov. Mike Beebe says 13 local programs will share nearly $70,000 in grants from Main Street Arkansas.
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 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.
06/21/11 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. | 
