http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2013/02/13/tech-park-board-meets-no-progress Comments On: Tech park board meets; no progress by Leslie Newell Peacock en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Fri, 24 May 2013 21:15:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Just kidding...
Posted by Verla Sweere]]> Sat, 16 Feb 2013 03:10:30 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by couldn't be better]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:03:57 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Catcher Freeman]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:06:18 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Dogtowndiva]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:48:30 -0600 Arkansas Times
Even if it is, you've still got:

-A crumbling physical infrastructure, exacerbated by a natural gas industry that has enough legislators in its pocket to prevent the gas companies from ever paying an appropriate severance tax to fix the roads.
-No light rail and horrible mass transit.
-Mediocre (at best) internet and cell phone infrastructure.
-A cost of living that is way out of line with average wages.
-A woefully undereducated population, especially in areas of math and science.
-A legislature that has shown no signs of addressing any of the above because they are far too concerned with fetal heartbeats, guns in church, and other shit that we shouldn't be wasting time on.

Now, given this, what company in their right might would relocate to a LR tech park, knowing they'll have to convince would-be employees to move to Little Rock?
Posted by Infamous Amos]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:41:38 -0600 Arkansas Times
Title 14 Local Government
Subtitle 5. Improvement Districts Generally
Chapter 88 Municipal Improvement Districts Generally
Subchapter 6 -- Dissolution of Districts

A.C.A. § 14-88-602 (2012)

14-88-602. Authority to wind up affairs.

In any and all municipal improvement districts which, at the time of their organization, had boundaries coextensive with the city or town in which they were located, which have paid their bonds and other obligations and have levied no tax for the past five (5) years, and which still hold title to lands purchased at foreclosure sale for delinquent taxes or have past due taxes owing, and the commissioners on the board of improvement of the district have no further duties to perform except the collection of delinquent taxes, the commissioners may proceed to wind up their affairs as set out in this subchapter.
Posted by radical centrist]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 07:56:57 -0600 Arkansas Times
A replay of the 90's again.

In the 90's the city tried to take citizen's tax money to rape a city park to create an expressway OUT OF TOWN so private corporate bigwigs could commute to their horsefarms out in the county and not have to mix with the hoi poloi. (funny this is the same private corporate bigwigs that cashed in big and cutloose thousands of Little Rock families into unemployment in the worst job market in living history) My street alone had 2 Alltel families that seemed happy and yet within 2 years had divorced.

Citizens stood up and slapped down the City Board and we how have a Murray Park and Big Dam Bridge that is the envy of America.

For 20 years citizens REFUSED to give any more damn money to the City to screw citzens with.

For 20 years the City Board wailed and gnashed their teeth that they had learned their lesson and swore up down and whined that the past transgression was a previous board and this board was all different people and we could now thrust them.

LR citizens agreed that for LR to progress we need to tax ourselves and trust the City again.

Then 1st horse out of the gate is this boondoggle/scam. Or is it better termed scam/boondoggle?

Get ready people! After this latest sin against taxpayers plays out we will probably deny any taxes to LR for another 20 years.

The City will become pothole swiss cheese roads. Police and fire jobs will go vacant through attrition. Parks will be whittled away 10 or 20 acres at a time.

But the biggest raping will be whole neighborhoods neglected like Forrest Hills and fall in horrible delcine.

THEN THE DECLINE CASUED BY CITY NEGLECT WILL BE USED AS AN ARGUMENT TO BULLDOZE THOSE LAZY 47% TAKERS AND THEIR HOMES to once again build some wacky private corporate boondoggle/scam that will only enrich developers that did not have to risk a penny of their own money.

If this Tech Park or Research Park or Scam Park is such a great thing, why is the LR taxpayer the one putting up Multi Millions?

Answer the last question yourself.
Posted by Citizen1]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 07:06:18 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-f…
Posted by the outlier]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 07:04:13 -0600 Arkansas Times
The California tax hike passed last November by about 55-45. The wealthiest counties in California voted overwhelmingly for it. They value their education system and they value the amenities higher taxes bring. Could we call them enlightened and self-interested? The tax hike is for 7 years by which time they should have solved their budget problems.

Silicon Valley is humming along with more start-ups and venture capital pooring in.

http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-jerry-brown-rick-perry-ad-20130206,0,7053715.story
Posted by the outlier]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 07:02:16 -0600 Arkansas Times
State orginizations UAMS & UALR (UU)plus private org Childrens(C) can help private industry take UUC research to market.

Where is the city in this?

High paying jobs don't help LR since LR doesn't have an income tax.

Sales taxes would DECREASE when hundreds of homes are leveled and the actual spenders scatter across the area.

Why would Little Rock want to attract geeks that get carsick and are afraid of heights?

What else explains max 5 minute car ride and max 4 story buildings?

I will now answer my own original question.

Why would LR pay for this?

Because noone that has looked at the business plan would invest their own money.
Posted by Citizen1]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 06:41:12 -0600 Arkansas Times
A "research park."

Or something.

Which reminds me.

Gov. Rick Perry of The Lone Star State next door to y'all is another perfect example of the pie-in-the-sky Southerner who's all let's-revitalize-Main-Street (for the last 50 years).

After bad-mouthing California and bragging how Texas would raid lots of Golden State entrepreneurs, aging Levis pinup Perry returns home empty-handed.

And still lying, as usual. Perry promised some 200 unidentified business were lined up to hear him.

20 showed.

They're lookin' away, lookin' away in droves, Dixieland.

If your taxpayers cared a genuine hoot about your state they'd fund better educations for your sons and daughters, for starters. And I don't mean Walton / Koch charters.

Instead, real estate developers are picking taxpayers' pockets to line their own.

Promises, promises.

http://houston.cbslocal.com/2013/02/13/per…
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 06:38:27 -0600 Arkansas Times
It's one of those pretentious words used by and for pretentious people who know no better and lack critical faculties.

Often found near "irregardless."

When did Arkansas become one of those sinkholes that suddenly opens up in the ground and swallows everything?

Your last election?
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 05:02:08 -0600 Arkansas Times
They need to go back to their envisioning place, because as currently envisioned, it feels like all Little Rock is getting is the shaft.
Posted by the outlier]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 04:14:38 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by radical centrist]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:22:09 -0600 Arkansas Times
Too late now. This project is out of control.
Posted by radical centrist]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:02:44 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by NB Lives In Pangburn Trailer Home]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:56:27 -0600 Arkansas Times
Let them spend some money, make all their horiizontal parking vertical and use what they haven't totally screwed up of the baseball field as the first building location and then prove that they can develop a commercial product that pays the bills before they get a 2nd building. This is beginning to look like another Chamber sink hole to throw resident's money for someone's commercial profit (e.g., socialism!).
Posted by couldn't be better]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:54:59 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by PCowan]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:27:01 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by plainjim]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:06:53 -0600 Arkansas Times