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This will be FANTASTIC--for Dickson. Research organizations are not in search of vacant land with a wi fi connection. They are built by local talent that is already there for some reason. I christen this the Slack Water Harbor of 2009. Now lets go sell some bonds and hand over the proceeds to Dickson and some good old local contractor.

We might as well start figuring out which state agency will have to relocate to the Slack Water Research Park, because the public will build it, no one will come, and --ta da--a state agency will be found needing more space away from the mall so as to bail out the developers. We put the state police in a Woolco in Southwest Little Rock, we put DHS in 3 or 4 of Dickson's projects on Main Street, the Teachers Retirement System bailed out another Flake on the old Union Bank Bldg...so let's cut the suspense and just pick an agency now. I think the staff of the Barbers Examiners and the Apiary Commission should get first pick.

Sanford says: "We put the state police in a Woolco in Southwest Little Rock, we put DHS in 3 or 4 of Dickson's projects on Main Street, the Teachers Retirement System bailed out another Flake on the old Union Bank Bldg..."

Jim Guy Tucker negotiated a deal that gave the North Little Rock drunk tank to the state (DYS) to use their intake facility back in the late 1990's.

Sanford, I like the way you think.

I'm told the Masseuse Licensing Board, the Barbers' Licensing Board, the ABC and the Prison Board all are looking for skyscrapers of their own.

When did Sir Dickson Flake (ala Sir Allen Stanford) get out of jail? Thought he and his running buddy Nick Wilson were still sharing a 2-person cell at Cummins for defrauding/bilking state government out of hundreds of thousands or millions of taxpayer dollars.

ARK. BLOG: You're confused. Dickson Flake has never run afoul of the law. And he wasn't a partner with Nick, who did indeed do a federal stint. Some other legislators took tumbles, too.

Don't forget, those agencies will need "temporary" space whilst the mansion is being built. I believe the new park should be ajacent to the County Extension building immediately north of UALR. And while the building is going up, I'll be GLAD to rent all of my broadmoor houses as office space.

And the price will be right, too! Just a measly $1 per sq ft (monthly.) Utilities not included, of course.

(Yes, I'm being a smartass...)

Nick Wilson got out of the big house years ago. I used to raise money for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Arkansas by volunteering to work the softdrink windows at Ray Winder and ol' "steal from the kids Nick" came to my window to buy a Pepsi. He was already released to a halfway house by then.

I nearly chucked a giant Pepsi in Nick's face but since I was representing BBBS at the time I kept my urge to myself.

I am there to help disadvantaged children and the lying theiving stealing ex-politician that was
conviceted of stealing from programs for disadvantaged children was right in front of me. It was tempting to lash out.

At least they are talking about putting it in Midtown instead of Chenal or Ferndale! Why go this route instead of just letting UAMS and/or UALR expand into one of the areas mentioned? That would take away some of the risk to public funds. Don't both institutions already build and successfully fill expensive research buildings in the area? Is it against UA policy to rent space in their buildings to research spinoffs?

True that D. Flake has never run afoul of the law....being the consummate insider in LR deals for the last 40 years, he hasnt needed to break any. Maybe as close as he got was as the local realtor for the Vatican, which owned the old Downtowner Inn on 7th and Center . The city attorney and prosecutor had to say mother may i and please many times before DF and the Catholic Church agreed to close the den of iniquity. The tenants paid a high rent, which counted for alot more than observing some bothersome commandments.

It wasn't Dickson who was in bed with Nick Wilson, but his sorry ass brother John. John should have gone to the pokey along with Nick. He didn't even lose his resl-estate licence. Today you can see John's pictures in the social rags and out driving his ritzy luxery car. But, Dickson is heavy handed too. I had a run in with him years ago. He played the "well i'm somebody card" on me and it didn't work.