From The Tolbert Report: Gov. Mike Beebe’s spokesman Matt DeCample tells the Tolbert Report this morning that their office still has concerns over the cost of the health care reform proposal. In November, Gov. Beebe expressed “big concerns” over the impact of the house version of [...] 
Gov. Mike Beebe’s spokesman Matt DeCample tells the Tolbert Report this morning that their office still has concerns over the cost of the health care reform proposal. In November, Gov. Beebe expressed “big concerns” over the impact of the house version of the health care proposal [...]
As the Senate awaits a Congressional Budget Office estimate of its latest health care proposal, word is trickling out that Democrats are entertaining what Sam Stein of The Huffington Post describes as the “nightmare scenario.”
He writes,
There is, currently, a nightmare scenario afflicting Democrats on Capitol Hill with regards to [...]
I have some other things to do, plus, it seems dead out there. Except for Republicans trying to block budget bills in Congress.
You're up.
' [...]I’m stunned that the mainstream media isn’t paying more attention to the White House’s Open Government Initiative. This process, which included three months on public discussions, concluded yesterday with this Open Government Directive issued by Peter Orzag, Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
In the memorandum he outlines [...]
Yes, I'd rather fly to Copenhagen than attend a North Little Rock City Council meeting at which next year's difficult budget will be discussed.
But, I'm not the mayor of North Little Rock.
Argenta News says maximum boss Pat Hays will be chomping danishes on an 11-day Copenhagen junket when an indictment-depleted [...]
The House today voted 225-200 (all Republicans were nays) to prevent the federal estate tax from expiring next month and crippling the budget. This will keep in place a maximum 45 percent estate tax on estates valued (after deductions for debt, etc.) at $3.5 million, or $7 million for [...]
NLR Mayor Pat Hays has floated a budget and it would appear from the account in the Democrat-Gazette this morning that he's going back deep into the well of electric revenues to keep city spending up. He's giving back only a token amount of the disastrous rate increase that came [...]
Robert Johnston, a former state representative and a busy activist on a range of public issues, has written a letter to LR Mayor Mark Stodola about pending city budget cuts.
Dear Mark
The CLR budget is tight. You are looking at cuts.
I suggest you look carefully at [...]
Washington, DC - U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, released the following statement today after the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported that the Senate Democrat health care bill will increase individual insurance premiums by $2,100 or up to 13 percent in 2016:Little Rock Mayor Mark Stodola has distributed his budget recommendations for next year. It's all pain, no gain, when you have to trim more than $6 million from current year spending.
Stodola would cut 51 jobs (real people, not elimination of vacancies) across the board, except for holding public safety jobs harmless.
He'd' [...]
The Pulaski County Quorum Court is scheduled to meet Tuesday evening at 7 pm in what proves to be a showdown on several issues in their budget. Notably the budget includes a four percent pay increase for quorum court members shortly after receiving a four bonus in [...]
I'm reminded that the Pulaski County Quorum Court will vote tomorrow night on the 2010 budget. It will include a 4 percent pay raise for all county employees, beginning with members of the Quorum Court, just weeks after the Quorum Court granted itself and other county employees a 4 percent' [...]
