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'Sheffield Nelson'

Friday's inferno — fire and brimstone to finish

It hit 104 today, tying a record. So what's new.
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Nelson complains to SEC about gas companies

Sheffield Nelson thinks XTO Energy (a subsidiary of Exxon) and Southwestern Natural, two publicly traded companies that are drilling for natural gas in Arkansas, have violated Securities and Exchange Commission rules on financial disclosure through representations made to fight a tax increase.
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Wanted: Video of canvassing thugs

Reports continue to arrive of the Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce's harassment campaign — fueled by $1.35 million in gas company money — to discourage people from signing petitions calling an election on an increase in the gas severance tax.

New study on Arkansas's gas severance tax

Sheffield Nelson commissioned Dr. Charles Venus, a member of the Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors and a tax advisor to governors Rockefeller and Bumpers, to do an economic analysis on the impact of the gas severance tax.
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Gas tax group alleges poll intimidation UPDATE

Sheffield Nelson, who's leading a grassroots campaign to increase the severance tax on natural gas, said petition canvassers at primary polls yesterday were intimidated by representatives of the industry-funded group fighting the tax increase.

Nelson on right side of gas tax debate

Sheffield Nelson is an odd person to be waging a one-man crusade against the business and political establishment to raise taxes on the Texas and Oklahoma gas producers who have been drilling in the Arkansas shale.
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Sheffield Nelson, unlikely severance tax champion

Times columnist Ernest Dumas, who draws on nearly a half-century of coverage of Arkansas politics, including the essential role gas exploration and taxation have played in politics, examines today former gas executive Sheffield Nelson's somewhat role as a severance tax champion and his past leadership of the very business orgtanizations fighting him today.

Sheffield Nelson schools Beebe on severance tax

I never really expected Gov. Mike Beebe, who cut his teeth golfing with the lobby in the Senate, to be a supporter of the Sheffield Nelson-backed initiative to raise the pitifully low severance tax on natural gas.
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The Wednesday night line

TODAY IN HISTORY: Former Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller died on this day in 1973 of pancreatic cancer.

Gas industry shills' selective touring

Local shills for gas exploration companies plan a small tour today to whip up opposition to Sheffield Nelson's drive for a realistic gas severance tax for Arkansas.
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Local road money: The rest of the story

I see that state highway officials had a little show hearing at the legislature yesterday to tout the wonders of putting a sales tax on people's food, groceries, clothing and utilities to finance a highway construction program.

Sheffield Nelson goes after Sen. Dismang

Sheffield Nelson's news conference this morning apparently will be an opportunity to bang Sen. Jonathan Dismang, an advocate for shale gas exploration, for receiving campaign contributions from gas companies.
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