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QC justice’s companies hope to enter medical marijuana business
(Local News ~ 01/20/18)
Quorum Court Justice Ken Kennemore is a minority owner in two relatively new limited liability corporations that have filed applications with the state of Arkansas in hopes of being awarded permits to operate in the medical marijuana trade, one as a dispensary and one as a cultivation facility...
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Council eliminates meeting mandate
(Local News ~ 01/20/18)
During Tuesday’s Blytheville City Council meeting the council passed a seemingly routine ordinance concerning “rules of order and procedure” for how they would operate in 2018. While the council must adopt rules every year, this year’s ordinance removed a portion of existing law that required that council members attend, at minimum, four meetings a month to receive full pay for that month. ...
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City Council should be servants, not pharaonic lords and masters
(Editorial ~ 01/20/18)
“Under our form of government, the source of authority is supposed to be ‘we the people’…our elected leaders are supposed to be pubic servants and not private masters,” James Dye. If any of you fine people heard a very loud groan and a few choice curse words Tuesday evening but couldn’t identify where they came from, let me apologize because it was probably me. ...
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School board meets with search firms
(Local News ~ 01/20/18)
With the resignation of Blytheville Superintendent Richard Atwill being accepted by the Blytheville Board of Education on December 19, 2017, the board decided to begin setting up proposal meetings with search firms on January 8. On Tuesday, the board first met with Ray and Associates (RA) of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, which has been a search firm for 42 years. The Firm employs over 180 associates across the country...
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