The Little Rock Airport Commission met for about an hour in a special executive session today to discuss the suddenly controversial job as director of PR and government relations, but took no action.
A weird Monday for me. What's on your mind. Closing out:
* MEDICAID: Gov. Mike Beebe has sent a letter outlining changes he hopes to make to restrain Medicaid expenditures.
Mark Raines, who was hired this week as the public relations person at Little Rock National Airport, has changed his mind and decided not to take the job, Airport Director Ron Mathieu has confirmed.
Ron Mathieu, director of Little Rock National Airport, tells me he has narrowed to five the field of candidates for a new job at the airport — director of public relations and governmental affairs.
I ranted a bit last night about my inability to get any answers relative to a tip I'd received that the Little Rock National Airport was in the market for a new communications job.
You remember the Little Rock National Airport don't you? Where director Ron Mathieu sent $40,000 to pay for a football field carpet at his kid's private school? Pay raises all around in 2011, fat ones.
Over Airport Director Ron Mathieu's kicking and screaming, the Little Rock Airport Commission decided yesterday to move ahead with creating a so-called cell phone lot where people can wait for free to pick up people arriving at the airport.