Here’s one way to spend stimulus money.

The Arkansas Department of Human Services will use it to hire 112 temporary workers to help speed application for welfare assistance.

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DHS offers a good explanation. But I can’t shake the feeling that this sounds like a Republican ad in the making.

AND SPEAKING OF STIMULUS: Scott Miller at Argenta News reports that NLR officials are giving him the runaround when he requests information about stimulus money the city has or hopes to get.

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