Two executive sessions and hours of discussion on parliamentary procedures later, the commissioners voted 4-3 to keep the officers the same. Jill Floyd will stay as chairwoman, Stacy Hurst retains her vice chair and treasurer seat and Bill Walker is still secretary.
KATV has dug up on questionable public dealings by a familiar figure — former state Sen. Bill Walker, who headed the state Career Education Department during the administration of Gov. Mike Beebe.
Activist Dick Gregory was in Little Rock for a talk tonight, but he met before hand with a community group known as DIGNITY. Gregory had worked with the group in 1991 to fight inner city crime and the scourge of crack cocaine.
The Blog reported last year on the case of Bob Means, who sued over his firing from counseling work at the Hot Springs Rehabilitation Center on the order of state Career Education Department Director Bill Walker, communicated though Robert Trevino, then head of state Rehabilitation Services.
I heard this morning that Arkansas has a new commissioner of Arkansas Rehabilitation Services to succeed Robert Trevino, who stepped down into a lesser role after 1) huge controversy over the hiring of an unqualified interpreter for the deaf and 2) a punishing state audit of the agency.
I got an answer today on the new pay for Robert Trevino, who announced Friday that he'd be stepping down as head of the Arkansas Rehabilitation Services Division of the Career Education Department.
Drama at a Legislative Joint Auditing Committee meeting, the casino amendment’s day in court, the latest from the secretary of state’s office, Gov. Beebe's formal endorsement of Medicaid expansion — all covered on this week's podcast.
Robert Trevino is stepping down as commissioner of Arkansas Rehabilitation Services, an agency that was the subject earlier today of a scathing audit for a laundry list of sloppy financial practices.