Arkansas Blog: News roundup

A roundup of news from a full e-mail basket after a long absence from the keyboard:

1) INDUSTRY: As expected, the Indian concern Welspun, today announced plans for construction of a $100 million steel tube plant by the Little Rock Port. It will employ 300 and should open by spring of 2008.

2) MIKE HUCKABEE: He's in Iowa, promising a fight to finish in the Iowa straw poll, though it sounds like his money report tonight will be small.

3) NEIGHBORHOOD ISSUE: The LR Planning Commission will decide July 19 whether to allow Trinity Episcopal Cathedral to close the 1600 block of Spring Street for use by the Cathedral School. Some in the neighborhood aren't happy about the idea of closing the through street, others are fine with it. The Downtown Neighborhood Association will hear from Cathedral July 12.

4) FOOD: If you're not already checking it regularly, our Eat Arkansas blog has good tomato news, good watermelon news and, if you're of a mind to argue, an open line on barbecue preferences.

5) ARKANSAS IMAGES: Inspired by our snap from the Chat and Chew yesterday, free-lance photographer Piney Woods unearths this shot from May when he attended an outdoor wrestling program in Paragould. The point here is that the big speaker in the Crown Vic is the PA for the rasslin' match. But the good old boys on hand found the activities of a working garbage truck more entertaining than the rasslin' underway in the opposite direction. These fellows could be blood kin of Maynard G. Krebs.

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You need to employ Piney Woods, buy him a gross of cartridges for his InstaMatic and send him on an endless quest of Arkansas to document how things are in the state.

With his images in the files you will be armed against revisionists who in the future maintain that Arkansas in the first decade of the 21st century was populated only by people who read Proust, spoke French fluently and collected artworks by Gainsborough.

Posted by: Claude Bahls | June 30, 2007 03:18 PM

I'd say they look more like the kin of Ernest T. Bass.

ARK. BLOG: Hey, now. Easy on my in-laws.

Posted by: mag | June 30, 2007 03:21 PM

Max, then we're related? It IS a small state after all.

Posted by: mag | June 30, 2007 05:05 PM

Wondering just how small this state is, Max: Are you in-laws perchance related to Ms. Sue Bass, my second-grade teacher at the old Oakhurst Elementary in LR?

ARK. BLOG: I don't think so. Except we're all Basses if you dig deep enough.

Posted by: TAP | June 30, 2007 05:13 PM

"Arkansas Images" definitely deserves a little virtual real estate of its own.

Posted by: hugh mann | June 30, 2007 05:52 PM

TAP,
Ellen and Miss Martha are two of the smartest folks I have ever known. Miss Martha was a teacher, and a grand one, who was eventually employed by the ADE. Her hiring in the GT Department may be the all time smartest thing the ADE ever did. If you haven't met her daughter, you are missing someone special.

Posted by: Curious | June 30, 2007 10:30 PM

Indeed, Curious...

At the risk of calling down upon her the wrath of some folk on and off this blog, I will say that I likely would never have gone to law school without the help of Her Honor.

Posted by: TAP | July 1, 2007 01:02 AM

Huckabee in Iowa?

Let's see. Who do I most want to represent Arkansas on the national stage?

Bill Clinton?

Mike Huckabee?

That's a tough one.

Get back to you later.

Posted by: Robertogee | July 1, 2007 02:53 AM

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