Slowdown in NWA?
The picture varies from city to city on sales tax collections, a measure of the economy, in NW Arkansas -- down in Fayetteville and Springdale; up in Rogers and Bentonville -- but the best indicator of the times it seems to me is the countywide sales tax, which is unaffected by a Sam's Club moving from one city to another, unless it jumps the county line. According to this story, collections in both Washington and Benton counties were down year to year in December.
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Our county wide collections are up over last year in spite of having one lane bridges across Highway 71 and our county being pretty well ignored by the AHTS so they can concentrate on areas of the state where people are fleeing in groves.
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February 28, 2008 10:56 AM
I'll be in Fayetteville this weekend and will undoubtedly be eating pot pies for the next couple of weeks while my checking account recovers from dual birthdays. That should help.
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February 28, 2008 11:07 AM
In December? Isn't that the month that Christmas comes in? If so, that sounds like news to me. Will be interested to see how Kathy Deck and the "Skyline Report" spin that...
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February 28, 2008 12:00 PM
Chickenopolis may be forced to re evaluate their stance toward immigrants, legal or otherwise.
Boss Womack's hard-on for dark-skinned people is backfiring cause it ain't good for bidness.
Meanwhile local Demos are signing up progressive Hispanics. See bluename.
In just over a month Chickenopolis opens the doors for its first ever professional baseball season.
Just last week the City fathers discovered that streets leading to the cost-overrun stadium are
insufficient to handle the expected traffic. That comes about 2 years AFTER they ran the con for the new stadium. They widened and improved existing streets a hundred
feet on either side of the stadium. These are primarily residential streets. Fans are going to love the traffic jam. Our dumbass mayor is not running for re election. The Chickenopolis-Arvest stadium will be one the biggest failures in recent NWA history. Authorizing taxes on the issue passed by 11 votes in a town of 60,000.
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February 28, 2008 03:29 PM
Sorry the hyper-link bluename won't work.
Try copy-pasting this:
http://www.nwanews.com/adg/News/217744/
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February 28, 2008 04:17 PM
Oh yea, and the really big whammy will come after real estate prices have fallen enough to warrant rolling back our sky-high property taxes. That should be fun cause you know there's enough anti-tax crowd up here to force the issue. It's been done before although differently.
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February 28, 2008 04:23 PM
eLwood, what exactly do you mean by, "Chickenopolis may be forced to re evaluate their stance toward immigrants, legal or otherwise"? My observation of Springdale (and have I mentioned lately that Fayetteville residents who deride Springdale are anti-working class bigots without the guts to take on guilty parties such as Don Tyson, Jim Blair, and their ilk?) is that it's been a relative success story, racially speaking, and possibly the most integrated and least bigoted town in NWA.
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February 28, 2008 05:22 PM