Mike Beebe News

Gov. Mike Beebe on Tuesday validated what local leaders have been saying for some time: Saline County is making significant strides in economic development and is poised for a promising future.

The 2010 landscape lost a great Southern name when Sue Bell Cobb, the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, announced she's not running for governor.

An independent investigation may be in order to get to the bottom of an escape by two convicted killers and other recent serious incidents in the state prison system, the state House majority leader said Monday.

Governor Mike Beebe has named Emon Mahony of El Dorado as the newest commissioner of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.

Arkansas lawmakers called for a subpoena-powered inquiry in the state prison system Tuesday, decrying guards' lapses that allowed two convicted murderers to escape and caused an inmate's near death.

Arkansas' Martin Luther King Commission is about to undergo an overhaul, after public squabbles that prompted the governor to call the panel an embarrassment.

Recent problems at Arkansas prisons ranging from escapes to an inmate's near death could warrant a "full-scale investigation by some outside agency," a ranking state House member said Monday.

Political analyst and former White House senior aide Paul Begala will be the keynote speaker at the 2009 Democratic Party of Arkansas Jefferson-Jackson Dinner on Friday, July 24, 2009 at Alltel Arena in North Little Rock.

June 25, 2009: Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe has released $1.5M from the state's General Improvement Fund to the U. of Arkansas for construction of a new Nanotechnology Center.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry was raising money at campaign headquarters when an Associated Press reporter called his press staff to ask what he was doing.

(Little Rock, AR - June 25, 2009) The Waxman-Markey “American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009,” also known as Cap and Trade, will take over $63 million per year from Arkansas’ schools through higher electric rates and natural gas rates*. This is an average of $232,000 per school district per year that can no longer be used to hire teachers or give teachers raises. These increased energy costs could also lead to higher property tax rates for Arkansas property owners.

(Little Rock, AR - June 25, 2009) The Waxman-Markey “American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009,” also known as Cap and Trade, will take over $63 million per year from Arkansas’ schools through higher electric rates and natural gas rates*. This is an average of $232,000 per school district per year that can no longer be used to hire teachers or give teachers raises. These increased energy costs could also lead to higher property tax rates for Arkansas property owners.

June 17, 2009 By Douglas McIntosh If I had to describe myself in this moment of economic chaos, I would say I am the grizzled sergeant, war weary, caught in the zone of instinctive awareness that combat veterans have. In order to survive you become a detached, cynical professional. In the sense of college degrees I am a rank amateur. However, over the last decade I have called the economic sphere pretty well. Perhaps the timing has been off, but I have nailed the trends perfectly. It takes a while for a two inch garden hose to fill a swimming pool, but it will fill it. Likewise, the endless debt, credit and bubbles of the last 25 years are finally reaching critical mass. It is no longer a matter of whether we have an economic collapse. No it is a matter of the scope, the intensity and the social chaos that economic collapse causes. My moniker over at Tree of Liberty is Doomer Doug, so I know what I am talking about. In a phrase, it is not coming: it is here.

House Speaker Robbie Wills has been raking me over the coals for saying nobody knew anything about keno parlors being legalized as part of the Arkansas lottery .

By JON GAMBRELL Inmates carrying sawed-off shotguns once patrolled the grounds of Arkansas state prisons, keeping other prisoners in line with fear and intimidation.

Mike Beebe said Wednesday morning that Arkansas lottery games should be consistent with what the voters thought they were voting on when they adopted the constitutional amendment authorizing state lotteries in November.

Gov. Mike Beebe said Tuesday he wants an "in-depth investigation" of Arkansas' prison system after revelations that an inmate nearly died after being left naked in his own feces for a weekend.

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Gov. Mike Beebe announced an effort that will allow more law enforcement officers to finish certification and associate-degree programs at reduced costs.

Ita s the kind of recognition Republican lawmakers would rather avoid. On Wednesday, Gov.