Gov. Mike Beebe rolls out his new Game and Fish Commissioner Emon Mahony at 11 a.m. this morning at the Witt Stephens Jr. Central Arkansas Natural Center. (A caller tells me that he’s the second Mahony on the commission. His late brother Mike served by appointment of Gov. Dale Bumpers in the 1970s.)

In answer to a reader question: The eight-member commission has overseen the agency for 64 years, since the passage of Amendment 35. Of the 82 commissioners named during that time, one has been a woman (Pat Peacock of Stuttgart completed an unexpired term in 1994-95) and one was two were black, Tommy Sproles, appointed to a full term by Gov. Bill Clinton in 1983 and then his successor, also appointed by Clinton, Dr. James E. Moore.

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