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'Bill Kopsky'

Senate committee votes to allow up to four more years of state control of Little Rock School District

Despite an outpouring of opposition from Little Rock people, a Senate committee today endorsed SB 553 that would allow the state to extend state control over the Little Rock School District for four more years.
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The Little Rock millage question: taxation without representation?

Frustration with the state's takeover of Little Rock schools scrambles the usual political lines on an upcoming millage election.
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Big Dam Bridge 100 brings big damn complaint about celebrity rider Hincapie

The Big Dam Bridge 100 is this weekend and one dedicated biker isn't happy about a celebrity rider, admitted doper George Hincapie.

The war on Little Rock schools

Superintendent Baker Kurrus is the latest casualty in the Walton-directed assault on the LRSD.
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With Little Rock's schools in the balance, Superintendent Baker Kurrus faces fearsome choices

The threat of privatization looms large over the LRSD as Kurrus leads it after a state takeover.

Report: diverting mentally ill criminals away from jails and prisons could save state $140 million per year

The Arkansas Public Policy Panel released a report today calling for the state to invest in mental-health crisis centers, where criminal offenders with mental health issues would get treatment, rather than simply being incarcerated.
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Suggs relents on changes at Rockefeller Early Childhood program

Bill Kopsky, president of the PTA of the Rockefeller Early Childhood Center, reports a positive outcome of a meeting the group sought this morning with Dexter Suggs, interim superintendent of the Little Rock School District. Suggs has made some key changes in plans for a reorganization of the school that, along with a reorganization of Baseline Elementary, became known to parents and staff at the schools from newspaper accounts.

Change from the ground up thanks to Arkansas Public Policy Panel

Group celebrates its 50th anniversary.
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Liberals have a lobby

It's the Arkansas Public Policy Panel.

Report says Arkansas needs tougher gas regs

The Arkansas Public Policy Panel held a press conference at the Capitol today to announce the findings of their latest report, "Model Oil and Gas Laws, Regulations and Ordinances." The report examined how other states with active shale plays regulate the natural gas industry and found - no big surprise here - that most of them have better protections in place than the Natural State. APPP also offered up some recommendations for state legislators and regulators.
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