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'Richard Mays'

Another Walker-Mays state real estate deal

I wrote recently about a state agency head, Bill Walker of the Arkansas Department of Career Services, who'd picked a building for consolidation of the Arkansas Rehabilitation Services Division that happened to be owned by an LLC headed by his friend and fellow Mike Beebe supporter, Richard Mays, a Little Rock lawyer and former legislator.
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Friendly transaction

A recent mortgage transaction showed that a state agency head has increased substantially the real estate business his department is doing with a friend and fellow supporter of Gov. Mike Beebe.
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State costs increased in Capitol Ave. building deal

I wrote yesterday about a new state lease agreement by which a division of the Career Education Department, headed by Bill Walker, will occupy an expanded building at 525 W. Capitol Avenue owned by an LLC headed by his friend, political ally and fellow Beebe supporter, Richard Mays.

Political allies in state agency expansion on Capitol Avenue

A key figure in the ownership of the building, Little Rock lawyer Richard Mays, happens to be an old political ally of the state agency occupying the building, the Career Services Department, headed by former Sen. Bill Walker.
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The day the vote-buying stopped

In 1976, the fixers finally got tired of swapping cash and whiskey for votes in Searcy County.

Calling the attorney general

I mentioned earlier today some activities that Arkansas attorney generals once pursued that don't seem to draw the same vigor from Attorney General Dustin McDaniel as beating up on Pulaski County public school children, defending white flight charter schools and setting up sexy new "cybercrime" divisions.
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More legal challenges to gas drilling

The state — legislators, regulators and governor — hasn't moved aggressively to guard the environment from ill effects of gas exploration in the Fayetteville shale.
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