The state announced today that a Chinese company planned to invest $410 million in the former Sanyo plant in Forrest City to spin yarn for textile use.
Protesters, described as being mostly from Arkansas have handcuffed themselves to barrels at the Memphis terminal of Valero in protest of the Diamond Pipeline being built across Arkansas.
The state Board of Education indicated yesterday that it has little respect for state law on school transfers. It will decide case by case whether to obey the law or not.
The Memphis City Council has voted to remove the remains of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest from a city park. On a related note, civil rights lawyer John Walker, whose history includes struggles in Forrest City, thinks the city name should be changed because of the taint of the general's name.
The state Board of Education is scheduled to consider Thursday the involuntary consolidation of the Hughes School District because its enrollment has fallen below 350 students. However, a new state law, adopted with emergency clause, exempts schools otherwise meeting standards from consolidation when they fall below 350 students.