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Sunday, December 31, 2006 - 18:05:48
Slouching toward 2007
I've been dogging it today, in part to do some cooking.
U.S. military deaths have reached 3,000 in Ira (Iraqi deaths are in the tens of thousands). The Democrat-Gazette says three more homicides have been reported in Pulaski County today. The Coalition of Little Rock Neighborhoods is still raising heck about City Hall insider review of the Advertising and Promotion Commission and about the resistance to using A&P funds for parks (thus relieving pressure on the general fund) even as the city moves to transfer some funding responsibility for the Riverfront Park amphitheater to A&P.
And speaking of city government. You are invited to the swearing-in tomorrow of LR city officers -- 9 a.m. at City Hall with a 10 a.m. reception to follow at the Arkansas Arts Center.
News scoop: Incoming Mayor Mark Stodola tells our reporter David Koon that he likely will NOT take a seat on the Advertising and Promotion Commission, given the obvious complications that have arisen. He will be able to appoint someone instead.
You are invited, also, to contribute to another open line.
Slouching toward 2007
I've been dogging it today, in part to do some cooking. But the world grinds on.
U.S. military deaths have reached 3,000 in Ira (Iraqi deaths are in the tens of thousands). The Democrat-Gazette says three more homicides have been reported in Pulaski County today. The Coalition of Little Rock Neighborhoods is still raising heck about City Hall insider review of the Advertising and Promotion Commission and about the resistance to using A&P funds for parks (thus relieving pressure on the general fund) even as the city moves to transfer some funding responsibility for the Riverfront Park amphitheater to A&P.
And speaking of city government. You are invited to the swearing-in tomorrow of LR city officers -- 9 a.m. at City Hall with a 10 a.m. reception to follow at the Arkansas Arts Center.
News scoop: Incoming Mayor Mark Stodola tells our reporter David Koon that he likely will NOT take a seat on the Advertising and Promotion Commission, given the obvious complications that have arisen. He will be able to appoint someone instead.
You are invited, also, to contribute to another open line.
The gentlemen from Grubbs and Slovak
Doug Thompson of Stephens Media contributes profiles of Senate and House leaders Jack Critcher and Benny Petrus, now big-city boys from Batesville and Stuttgart, but both with smaller town backgrounds on their resumes.The Bubba Awards
Brummett reviews the year in Arkansas politics, good and bad, and even includes a kind mention of the Arkansas Blog. A sign of the changing time and transitory nature of politics: Gov. Mike Huckiabee earns only a single back-handed reference, for Mike Beebe's retention of many of his department heads. Beebe, on the other hand, rates about a half-dozen mention.
Sic transit gloria big mouth.
Saturday, December 30, 2006 - 17:29:59