Almost eight months ago, a group of public and private agencies announced a joint venture to lift the fortunes of children and families in inner city Little Rock.
Sen. Joyce Elliott of Little Rock will resign her $80,000 job as director of a public-private consortium hoping to build a Harlem Children's Zone-thype cradle-to-job program for an inner city Little Rock neighborhood known as Promise Neighborhood.
A Board member the Broadmoor Neighborhood Association has written city officials urging a requirement that members of the Little Rock Technology Park Authority disclose financial interests, as most other city and state board members are required to do.
A class action lawsuit alleging tampering with lottery scratch-off tickets, how "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis and Mark Pryor got lumped together, the hot primary contest between state Rep. Fred Allen and incumbent Sen. Joyce Elliott and the end of Occupy Little Rock — all discussed this week.
Good timing. My comment on the Fred Allen-Joyce Elliott Senate race comes just as I receive a note from the Coalition of Greater Little Rock Neighborhoods with its report card on candidates in the area they cover, plus
The Democrat-Gazette's Michael Wickline has a good "gotcha" story in the Sunday newspaper. UALR advertised for and hired a person to run the Central Little Rock Promise Neighborhood project and put that person on payroll last September.
I mentioned this on the blog previously, but somebody expressed surprise last night when I said that, despite a landslide Republican win in the 2nd Congressional District, the old formula that elected U.S. Rep. Vic Snyder still seemed to have potential application in the 2nd District.