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Monday, September 17, 2012

Little Rock Technology Park Authority Technology Park FOIs pinched from chair's office building

Posted by Leslie Newell Peacock on Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:03 AM

Dr. Mary Good, chairman of the Little Rock Technology Park Authority board, said today that originals of letters to her about the siting of the park were removed Friday from a room near her office in the University of Arkansas at Little Rock's Engineering Technology and Applied Science building.

In response to a Freedom of Information request from the Times, Good had placed the materials on a table with sticky note pads and a sign stating that copies would be made of pages marked with the sticky notes.

Good is furious. Even letters that had been e-mailed are gone for good; her computer was switched out and the old hard drive erased while she was on vacation in August, she said.

Good said the letters were from individuals, one from a man who included a picture of a home next door to his that had a bullet hole in the door. As such, they didn't constitute an organized homeowner effort that would allow the Authority board to once again consider locating in the residential areas known as Forest Hills and Fair Park, she said.

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Monday, September 17, 2012

Little Rock Technology Park Authority Technology Park FOIs pinched from chair's office building

Posted by Leslie Newell Peacock on Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:03 AM

Speaking of Dr. Mary Good, Little Rock Technology Park

The tech park's decision to hit the reset button, why Arkansas hospitals charge wildly different rates for the same procedure, the scandal that introduced the country (and me) to the town of Imboden, Arkansas—all covered on this week's edition. /more/

I wrote this morning about the latest development on the woebegone Little Rock Technology Park — a rump effort to take over the site selection process because of factional divisions. /more/

I'm happy to say I finished tax returns last night. You? /more/

No meeting of the Little Rock Technology Park Authority this month. Chair Mary Good says the board continues to gather site information. /more/

The private option, tax cuts, school choice, voter ID, Big River Steel, the political impact of a Republican majority in the legislature, the governor's race, the tech park and delay tactics in the Lake Maumelle watershed — all covered this week. /more/

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