Tuesday in Arkansas

Legislature: No scheduled meetings today.

Governor Beebe: The governor will be in eastern Arkansas today touting ARHealthNet:

10:30 a.m.: ARHealthNet conference (Schoettle Center, W Memphis)
12:00 p.m.: Governor Beebe addresses the Memphis Rotary Club;
2:00 p.m.: ARHealthNet news conference (River Road Rest., Helena);
3:45 p.m.: Governor Beebe promotes ARHealthNet to local businesses (Cleo’s Restaurant, Marianna).

No events scheduled today.

New York Times: Texarkana Boy Scouts injured by lightning strike in NM
New York Times: Energy Bill aids expansion of atomic power plants
New York Times: States export their inmates as prisons fill
Boston Globe: New fight over children's health aid to states
Anchorage Daily News: Federal agents raid Sen. Stevens' home

Ark. News Bureau: Western, NW Ark not affected by bread recall
Ark. Democrat-Gazette: Taxpayers' suit fails in LR
Ark. Democrat-Gazette: UA center up for study funds

Miller County inches closer to filing a lawsuit against the City of Texarkana, Ark. over the Juvenile Detention Center [Texarkana Gazette]

The Arkansas Municipal Auditorium Commission is continuing to works towards a restoration of the Texarkana, Arkansas Municipal Auditorium [Texarkana Gazette]

Baxter Co. Sheriff John Montgomery says some cities owe the county nearly $90K for the upkeep of city prisoners. Montgomery says the Ark. Sup. Ct. has held that all revenue collected from a person charged with a state offense go to the counties. In the 1970s, the legislature passed a law giving municipalities the ability to adopt the state code, he added, which allows cities to keep any fines and fees collected on municipal charges. [Baxter Bulletin]

Senator Shawn Womack was recently recognized by the Arkansas District Judges Council for his work on judicial issues over the past two years. [Harrison Daily Times] (Here's a link to the blog entry on this award)

Beebe (Edit: the city, not the governor) will ban pit bulls next month [Searcy Daily Citizen]

AEDC Exec. Dir. Maria Haley, along with Sen. Shane Broadway and First Lady Ginger Beebe, handed the city of Bryant its first recertification as an Arkansas Community of Excellence last week. [Benton Courier]

The environmental permitting process for the proposed John W. Turk, Jr., Power Plant near Fulton has produced a conflict in opinion between the general staff of the Arkansas Public Service Commission and a consultant for the PSC general staff which intervenors in the process have sought to spotlight. [Hope Star]

John Brummett: Our guys at the bacon buffet
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: The Guv to the rescue
George Arnold: Smile, you're on candid camera in Lowell
Arkansas Leader: Taxpayers fleeced again
Sen. Steve Faris: Arkansas Health Services Permit Agency important