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Add another contender for Little Rock City Board

Clayton Johnson, a science teacher at Premier High School who's been active in neighborhood groups, says he'll run for Little Rock City Board in November for one of three at-large seats currently held by Joan Adcock, Gene Fortson and Dean Kumpuris.
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Metroplan director presents Imagine Central Arkansas to board; Hines, Kumpuris don't get it

Metroplan Director Jim McKenzie, with an assist from transportation study director Casey Covington, stood before the City Board for two hours tonight talking about Metroplan's Imagine Central Arkansas plan and explaining the impact of the Arkansas Highway and Transportation's $600 million plan to widen a 7-mile corridor of I-30 to 10 lanes.
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10-lane fans: Hines and Kumpuris

The state Highway and Transportation Department is all ears, it told the City Board last night at its special hearing at the Clinton Presidential Center, attended by around 300 people by my rough estimate. All options will be considered. But, they insist, the only option that does what they want it to do — that is, cure congestion, enhance safety, be functional, which they describe as "needs" — is the 10-lane design, which Connection Arkansas Program head and Garver engineer Jerry Holder amazingly described as not really 10 lanes. It's just six — plus four collector-distributor lanes. Got that?

Hendrix study says ward-based elections give minorities and women a better shot at elected office

How we elect local leaders determines the sorts of people who win office, which in turn determines the course of the history of the city.
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Little Rock Board may vote on 5 a.m. club ordinances next week

A proposal to enforce an earlier closing time for late-night clubs encounters surprising opposition at the City Board. With two competing ordinances on the Board's agenda for next week, Little Rock's early morning nightlife might survive after all.

Seven reasons why closing late-night clubs early is a bad idea for Little Rock

An ordinance being considered by the City Board would close the city's 5 a.m. clubs at 2 a.m. Here's why that's bad policy for Little Rock.
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Think early closing for private clubs would depress crime? Try this

Competing statistics don't get to the real point about the push by Little Rock directors to require an early closing hour for private clubs.

Little Rock's nannies target clubbing

Some shift workers don't knock off work until 11 p.m. A night of fun that ends at 11 p.m. for someone who had a 5 p.m. quitting time would end at 5 a.m. for the shift worker who gets off at 11 p.m. Entertainment in those hours, after Waffle House and EZ Mart, is limited. And it will soon be more limited if some city directors have their way.
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City Board could put an end to 5 a.m. clubs

Little Rock might not quite be a "city that never sleeps," but for decades the city's night owls have had a scattering of options for late-night socializing thanks to licenses that allowed private clubs to operate until 5 a.m.

A handy guide to corporate influence on Little Rock City Board

The Democrat-Gazette reported this morning (pay wall) on campaign spending in the races for Little Rock City Board.
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Could we agree on ethics?

Two separate Arkansas legislators have spoken to me in recent days about their interest in pushing public ethics legislation.

Little Rock city director candidates powered by usual corporate cash

Financial reports for city director races were due yesterday and the yawning gap in money for the incumbent at-large directors — Dean Kumpuris, Gene Fortson and Joan Adcock — isn't the only story.
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