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• Jimmy Moses
  ...nt Park]], an expanded [[Statehouse Convention Center]], a new main branch public library, museums, repaired streets and sidewalks, and better policing and r ...ond vote for a one-cent increase in the sales tax to finance the arena and public safety and emergency services failed two months later on December 14th.
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• William J. Clinton Foundation
  ...ive]] (CHAI). Leadership development is inculcated through [[International Public Service Project]] internships. Citizen service is advanced by the [[Clinton ...vid Geffen]], and supermarket executive [[Ronald W. Burkle]]. In its first public tax return in 1998 the Foundation disclosed donations of $3 million. The Fo
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• James Polshek
  ...:James-polshek.JPG|thumb|300px|James Polshek speaking at Clinton School of Public Service. Photo by Phil Frana.]] ...ing the Choctaw Station inside a glass box to form the [[Clinton School of Public Service]] and a [[Great Hall]], but this idea was later shelved.
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• M. Jane Dickey
  ...is past commissioner and chairperson of the [[Little Rock Municipal Water Works Commission]] and of [[Central Arkansas Water]]. She is a board member for A
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• City of Little Rock Board of Directors
  ...rt for Public Works had at its head [[Bob Turner]], the director of public works. Reporting directly to him were assistant directors [[Steve Beck]], [[Wende
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• City of Little Rock
  ...f Little Rock has fourteen departments dedicated to four areas of service: public safety, infrastructure, economic development, and quality of life. *[[Public Works]]
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• Little Rock River Rail
  ...he [[Central Arkansas Transit Authority]] (CATA) and officially opened for public service on November 1, 2004. Little Rock is one of only ten cities in the c ...mule-drawn rail transportation in the city. This first attempt to provide public transportation in the city immediately failed.
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• Arkansas River
  ...McClellan]] and Oklahoma Senator Robert S. Kerr secured passage of public works funds for waterway improvements and hydroelectric power generation. The dis ...ves the history of human activity along the Arkansas River and educate the public on river's role in mid-South life. The society operates a museum at the Por
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• McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System
  ...McClellan]] and Oklahoma Senator Robert S. Kerr secured passage of public works funds for waterway improvements and hydroelectric power generation. The dis
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• Main Library
  ...des wireless internet, computer courses, and a number meeting rooms to the public. It also houses the [[Butler Center for Arkansas Studies]] and the [[Sturgi ...ibrary is the third main branch building in the history of the Little Rock public library system. The first library, a [[Carnegie library]], was built in 191
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• Little Rock Zoo
  ...lf and a brown bear. Not to worry, though, because now the zoo is the only public one in Arkansas and is accredited by the American Zoo and Aquarium Associat A Works Progress Administration-era big cat house has been transformed into a full-
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• World War II
  ...anklin Delano Roosevelt, Cary Grant, and Gary Cooper. [[Highland Park]], a public-assistance housing project administered by the [[Little Rock Housing Author The U.S. War Department commissioned both the [[Maumelle Ordnance Works]] and [[Arkansas Ordnance Plant]] (AOP) near [[Jacksonville]] in 1941. The
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• Headwaters Partnership for the Arkansas River Trail
  ...outreach in support of the [[Arkansas River Trail]]. The partnership also works to provide financial support of the trail.
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• City of North Little Rock
  The '''City of North Little Rock''' is a public entity that governs North Little Rock, Arkansas. City government is divided *[[Public Works]]
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• Gillam Park
  ...regation laws. At the time of the purchase of Gillam Park the city had six public parks for white residents and none for black residents. A few black private Works Progress Administration work on the site began in 1940, but efforts to clea
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• Pulaski County
  The county has nineteen public and private high schools: *[http://www.aragriculture.org/agworks/Pulaski.pdf Agriculture Works for Arkansas - Pulaski County]
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• Carnegie Library
  [[Image:Carnegie_library.jpg|thumb|300px|Little Rock Public Library, Little Rock, Arkansas.]] Little Rock's '''Carnegie Main Public Library''' once stood at the corner of Seventh and Louisiana streets. The G
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• University of Central Arkansas
  The '''University of Central Arkansas''' (UCA) is a comprehensive public higher education institution located on a 365-acre campus in [[Conway]]. Th ...ties sponsored by the Honors College include Challenge Week, Issues in the Public Square, High Tables, and Soapboxes. The Honors College has a dedicated inte
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• College of Physicians and Surgeons Medical School
  ...relocated to 1201 McMath Street in 1935 with the assistance of the Public Works Administration, which constructed the building out of brick and limestone.
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• College of Medicine Building
  ...was constructed with funding by the University of Arkansas and the Public Works Administration. The building originally housed the [[University of Arkansas
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• Conway
  ...|thumb|300px|Historic postcard of International Shoe Company and Ward Body Works in Conway.]] ...sity of Central Arkansas]] (1907). The area is also served by the [[Conway Public School District]], [[St. Joseph School]], and [[Conway Christian School]].
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• Little Rock Street Railway and Electric Company
  ...mule-drawn rail transportation in the city. This first attempt to provide public transportation in the city immediately failed. ...City Electric Street Railway first contracted with the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to develop "dummy" steam engines to power it
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• University of Arkansas Medical College
  ...was constructed with funding by the University of Arkansas and the Public Works Administration.
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• Saline County
  ...r 2, 1835. The county is famous for its rich mineral resources. Early salt works in the county supplied the precious mineral to places throughout the mid-so ...-Mart]], the [[State of Arkansas]], [[Saline Memorial Hospital]], [[Benton Public School District]], [[Landers Automotive]], [[Birch Tree Communities]], [[Ri
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• Thomas C. McRae Memorial Sanatorium
  ...0 the institution opened with twenty-six patients. Later in the decade the Works Progress Administration constructed a new Chambers Building for performing *Mitchell F. Rice and Woodrow Jones, ''Public Policy and the Black Hospital: From Slavery to Segregation to Integration''
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• Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre
  ...entral Arkansas]] in the summertime. The theatre was founded in 2006, with public performances beginning in the summer of 2007. The artistic director of the *The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
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• Wingo Hall
  ...square foot hall was constructed in 1934 with the assistance of the Public Works Administration. It is named for Arkansas state senator Otis T. Wingo, and o
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• Conway High School-East
  ...onstructed at 1815 Prince Street in 1937 with the assistance of the Public Works Administration. In 2008 the school received a $2.9 million makeover.
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• Marche
  ...Poland, who had made his way to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he served as a public school teacher and then professor of German language at Engelman's Academy. Some locals found work at Camp Robinson or at the federal [[Maumelle Ordnance Works]], established for $8 million in 1941 on six thousand acres of land to the
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• UCA President's Home
  ...f Central Arkansas]]. The President's Home was constructed by the [[Public Works Administration]] in 1936. The structure underwent extensive remodeling in 1
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• Great Depression
  In June 1933 the president created the Public Works Administration (PWA). The PWA assisted in the construction of a number of b Roosevelt announced the creation of the Civil Works Administration (CWA) on November 8, 1933. By December 1933 more than 58,000
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• Acxiom Corporation
  ..."Dave" Ward]], a blacksmith turned school bus manufacturer at [[Ward Body Works]] in Conway. In 1959 he walked away from his undergraduate studies at the U ====The Company Goes Public====
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