Vic Snyder News

Hundreds showed up at the Washington County Fairgrounds. It was cloudy so it wasn't hot and if you brought a chair you could sit and enjoy yourself.

It is time to raise a toast to the much-maligned courts, which have once again saved us, if only momentarily, from the folly of that most frequent and dangerous marriage in Arkansas, thriftless industry and pliant government.

June 24-30, 2009 It was a GOOD week for a A The ENVIRONMENT . The state Court of Appeals ruled that SWEPCO shouldn't have been issued a construction permit for a coal-fired generating plant in Hempstead County.

Arkansas has a ways to go. BIG BLADES KEEP ON TURNIN': These are from the LM Glasfiber.

House Republicans will target freshman Rep. Tom Perriello in a new television commercial that criticizes the Virginia Democrat for his recent vote in favor of controversial energy reform legislation.

Arkansas' U.S. senators said Tuesday they have concerns about the clean energy bill that came out of the House last week.

W.G. Yates & Sons Construction in Philadelphia, Miss., has won a $10.7 million firm-fixed-price contract to build an education center at Little Rock Air Force Base, according to Defense Industry Daily.

A Conway man says he is seeking the Republican nomination to challenge U.S. Rep.

Little Rock AFB is known as the home of combat airlift. W.G. Yates expects to complete the work by November 9/10. Bids were solicited on the Web with 10 bids received by the U.S. Army Engineer District in Little Rock, AR .

U.S.Rep. Vic Snyder will be there. When the lead on a New York Times story says: Overcoming deep divisions within its Democratic majority, the House passed legislation on Friday intended to address the threat of global warming and transform the way the United States produces and uses energy.

(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.

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.

Washington D.C. - " U.S. Senators Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor along with U.S. Representative Vic Snyder today announced that the Little Rock School District will receive $325,557 to update six school libraries and their literacy programs.

God offers five simple keys to turning this nation back to God and regaining His blessing upon the land.

On two consecutive warm summer days last July, the House Armed Services Committee debated procedures for interrogating war-on-terror detainees.

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/RICK MCFARLAND Janet Long gets a hug from an unidentified woman after the funeral of her son, Pvt.

Posted by Bob in AGJ Editorial, Public Sentiment on June 5th, 2009 A Nation of Cheaters By Kirk O. Hanson Cheating. What could be more American? …we cheat — or at least try to cheat — in every aspect of our lives. One out of four Americans surveyed say it’s acceptable to cheat on their taxes… College bound students cheat on the SAT tests. Teachers cheat by giving their students the answers to standardized tests so the teachers qualify for bonuses. Athletes cheat by using performance-enhancing drugs. Successful authors cheat by appropriating others’ writing as their own…

Next year's primary elections are about a year away, but candidates for state and federal offices, particularly for 13 open state Senate seats, are either making their intentions known or planning to do so soon.

If you were ranking the top 10 most fascinating members of Congress, Rep. Vic Snyder would definitely have a place on the list.