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Cherokee Nation poured $6 million into defunct casino amendment; Oaklawn and Southland spent near $1.5 million

Casino owners poured almost $6 million into campaigns for and against a casino expansion amendment for Arkansas that was struck from the ballot by the Arkansas Supreme Court.
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Campaign begins for Arts Center bond issue

The ad hoc Committee for Arts and History will have a press event at noon Tuesday in support of a Feb. 9 special election vote on Little Rock on pledging sales tax money to a bond issue to expand and improve the Arkansas Arts Center as well as spend some smaller amounts on the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History and the surrounding MacArthur Park.
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Stealth campaigning reaches the city board level

I mentioned recently that robocalling was reported several days ago to stir opposition to Little Rock City Board approval of a MAPCO gas station and convenience store at Third and Broadway, in the midst of a government corridor bracketed by a federal courthouse, City Hall, the County Courthouse and the under-renovation Robinson Auditorium.

Report filed on Little Rock property tax campaign

The committee promoting a continuation of a three-mill property tax for Little Rock streets and drainage work has begun accounting campaign finances.
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Little Rock rolls out its property tax campaign

The city of Little Rock has begun the campaign to pass a three-mill property tax for streets and drainage.

Stop casinos, casino says

A news conference is scheduled at 10 a.m. today by the coalition I told you about earlier in the week to oppose initiative efforts to expand casino gambling in Arkansas.
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Corporate puppetry continues on severance tax increase

The chamber of commerce's full frontal attack on the severance tax increase — not yet qualified for the ballot — continues.

The secret battle against the severance tax

Stephens Media today reports that it can't find any prominent politicians in support of the proposal to raise the gas severance tax in Arkansas.
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More evidence that ethics law must be fixed

Further evidence that the state Ethics Commission should have erred on the side of common sense and good ethics — and not syntactical sophistry — in reversing a staff finding and dismissing my complaint that the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce-backed campaign for a Little Rock sales tax violated state financial disclosure law by reporting campaign spending to its consultants, the Markham Group, and little else.

Jane English calls for campaign spending transparency

Rep. Jane English of North Little Rock, a Republican who's seeking a state Senate seat next year, has issued a heart-warming campaign news release.
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Get ready for the highway tax campaign

Stephens Media takes an advance look at the 2012 campaign to raise the state sales tax a half-cent to pay for an almost $2 billion four-lane road construction program.

Secrecy in campaign spending

As you may know, the Arkansas Ethics Commission is weighing my complaint that the backers of the Little Rock sales tax campaign did not comply with campaign disclsoure law in reporting of campaign expenditures.
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