EDITORIAL >>AG breaks state law

He is a mean grinch who will question a good deed, but sometimes someone must do the thankless. Attorney General Dustin McDaniel the other day donated $100,000 in state money to a private fund to build a memorial to fallen firefighters on the grounds of the state Capitol and he shouldn’t have.General McDaniel eloquently explained why he was doing it. […]

EDITORIAL >>AG breaks state law

He is a mean grinch who will question a good deed, but sometimes someone must do the thankless. Attorney General Dustin McDaniel the other day donated $100,000 in state money to a private fund to build a memorial to fallen firefighters on the grounds of the state Capitol and he shouldn’t have.General McDaniel eloquently explained why he was doing it. […]

TOP STORY > >Road panel: It’s going to take money

By JOHN HOFHEIMERLeader senior staff writerThe Blue Ribbon Highway Committee reported its progress July 1 to the state General Assembly, deferring recommendations until December. Many expect the committee to recommend either a temporary sales-tax increase or transfer transportation-related sales tax revenues from the state’s general fund to its highway fund, or both, but no one wants to discuss tax increases […]

TOP STORY > >Road panel: It’s going to take money

By JOHN HOFHEIMERLeader senior staff writerThe Blue Ribbon Highway Committee reported its progress July 1 to the state General Assembly, deferring recommendations until December. Many expect the committee to recommend either a temporary sales-tax increase or transfer transportation-related sales tax revenues from the state’s general fund to its highway fund, or both, but no one wants to discuss tax increases […]

TOP STORY > >District’s new hires to focus on failures in Jacksonville

NANCY DOCKTERLeader staff writerCharles Hopson, in his first week on the job as superintendent of Pulaski County Special School District, has tapped two veteran educators to turn conditions around at Jacksonville High School. The dilapidated state of the 40-year-old facility caught the attention of district officials, the public and news media this spring when a group of graduating Jacksonville High […]

TOP STORY > >District’s new hires to focus on failures in Jacksonville

NANCY DOCKTERLeader staff writerCharles Hopson, in his first week on the job as superintendent of Pulaski County Special School District, has tapped two veteran educators to turn conditions around at Jacksonville High School. The dilapidated state of the 40-year-old facility caught the attention of district officials, the public and news media this spring when a group of graduating Jacksonville High […]

TOP STORY > >Cabot keeps a close watch on finances

JOAN McCOYLeader staff writerAn unfilled position at Cabot City Hall is now paying for an auditor to learn the city books and be on hand to ensure a smooth transition when a new clerk-treasurer takes over in January.June 30 was the last day on the job for Karen Davis, director of operations for Cabot Mayor Eddie Joe Williams. Davis now […]

TOP STORY > >PCSSD to pay $275,000 in bias suits

By NANCY DOCKTERLeader staff writerThe school board for the Pulaski County Special School District in closed session at an emergency meeting Thursday approved agreements to settle complaints by two district employees — one black, the other white — with pay-offs totaling up to $275,000.The board voted to pay $200,000 by the end of the month to Donna Humphries, who recently […]

SPORTS>>Cabot’s Runyan heads to Lakeside

By JASON KINGLeader sportswriterWhen Cabot junior Legion head coach Andy Runyan leads his Centennial Bank team onto the field in Sheridan this weekend for the state tournament, it will be his last time wearing Cabot red.Runyan is headed to Hot Springs Lakeside to take over the baseball head-coaching job recently vacated by J.R. Folds.Runyan served as an assistant to Cabot […]

SPORTS>>Cabot’s Runyan heads to Lakeside

By JASON KINGLeader sportswriterWhen Cabot junior Legion head coach Andy Runyan leads his Centennial Bank team onto the field in Sheridan this weekend for the state tournament, it will be his last time wearing Cabot red.Runyan is headed to Hot Springs Lakeside to take over the baseball head-coaching job recently vacated by J.R. Folds.Runyan served as an assistant to Cabot […]