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Max Brantley
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Leslie Newell Peacock is covering the meeting of the Little Rock Technology Park Authority. Kelly Dudzik of Fox 16 supplied the photo above via Twitter of a good crowd gathered as the board discusses finalists for a site, all of them unsuitable in the eyes of a hired-gun consultant operating under the sway of tech park godfather Dickson Flake. Reopening the search process, after the extensive earlier quest, is a bad idea. Worse is switching to residential neighborhoods that Flake and Authority Chair Mary Good favor.

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