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  • Rutherford was subpoenaed in February 2001 by the [[Burton House Committee on Government Reform]], which was investigating possible links between Foundation fund-ra ...vice president with [[Cranford Johnson Robinson Woods]] (CJRW), one of the state's largest advertising firms. Rutherford is also a former administrative ass
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  • ...Truman Library] is on land given by a city. The rest were supplied by the state as a whole or by private funds." He also noted an increase in zoo patron fe ...12, 2002, the [[Attorney General|Attorney General's Office]] filed suit as government representative for the [[Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality]] (AD
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  • *[[Arkansas State Capitol]] ...and civilian labor. Paper for making gun cartridges was so scarce that the State Library was ransacked for spare material. Federal occupiers demanded water
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  • ...lved into the nonprofit [[Little Rock Downtown Partnership]]. Business and government leaders representing the new coalition began looking for development projec ...l off the property as office space, cutting its losses. Today thirty state government agencies thrive on the dissected Main Street Market block.
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  • ...parts of the program are modeled after Boston's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Seven graduate schools of public service with ties to past presidents are *"First Classes Begin at Clinton School," Associated Press State & Local Wire, August 23, 2005.
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  • ...ive in State and Local Government Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
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  • ...he studied at the Arkansas Institute of Politics and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. ...ings for Arkansas, including serving as a Chair of the Arkansas Democratic State Committee and as a delegate to the l980,'84,'88,'92, '96, 2000 and '04 Demo
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  • ...ng economic growth and diversity in the state. The leading industry in the state is aerospace, with $1 billion in exports in 2006. *Laura Stevens, "Aerospace Industry Set to Add 5,000 State Jobs," ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,'' Feburary 22, 2008.
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  • ...Quality''' (ADEQ) is the chief environmental department of Arkansas state government. The current director of ADEQ is [[Teresa Marks]]. *[http://www.adeq.state.ar.us/ Homepage of ADEQ]
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  • The '''Old State House and Historic Arkansas Museum''' is a national historic landmark locat ===Old State House===
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  • ...County]], Arkansas. The city is the political and commercial center of the state. City government is divided into a number of city departments, citizen services offices, com
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  • ...is the administrator of "wet-dry" statuses in Arkansas. Thirty four of the state's seventy-five counties are considered "wet" by the ABC. According to ABC, ...mbling." By 1820 central Arkansas was so thick with saloons that the state government began taxing them to slow down growth in the business. It didn't work.
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  • [[Image:Old-state-house-2.jpg|thumb|300px|Steps of the Old State House. Photo by Phil Frana.]] [[Image:Old-state-tree.JPG|thumb|300px|Interior of Old State House. Photo by Victor Frana.]]
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  • The barracks continued to be used on the site until 1890. In 1892 the U.S. government gave the property to the [[City of Little Rock]], requiring that it be "for The Tower Building remained in an abandoned state until 1942 when it reopened as the [[Arkansas Museum of Natural History and
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  • The '''Metrocentre Improvement District No. 1''' is a state legislated special improvement district comprising 44 blocks of downtown Li ...ve director [[Jimmy Moses]] worked tirelessly with representatives of city government, the [[Arkansas Highway Department]], the [[U.S. Army Corps of Engineers]],
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  • ...completion in 1950. Before this time there was no established home for the state Governor. ...ntry Garden]] contains another fountain, a replica of the one at the [[Old State House]]. The entrance garden houses a bronze bust fashioned after [[Bill Cl
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  • [[Image:State-capitol-winter.jpg|thumb|300px|The Arkansas State Capitol festooned with holiday lights. Photo by Elizabeth Housley.]] [[Image:State-capitol.jpg|thumb|300px|The Arkansas State Capitol. Photo by Phil Frana.]]
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  • ...l Department]], the [[Worker's Compensation Commission]], and the Arkansas State [[Transportation Commission]]. The [[Arkansas Justice Building Commission]] ...Office in 1976, remaining in this position until he became governor of the state in 1980.
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  • ...inthrop Paul Rockefeller Sr.''' was a philanthropist and governor of the [[State of Arkansas]] from 1967 to 1971. ...in this position more than six hundred new industrial plants opened in the state, providing approximately 90,000 new jobs for Arkansas residents. While the
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  • The '''University of Arkansas at Little Rock''' (UALR) is a metropolitan state university located in Little Rock, Arkansas. The university's annual enroll ...rship and Training, the School of Mass Communication, and the Institute of Government.
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  • ...es." The Partnership has about 225 members, representing local businesses, government units, nonprofits, churches, landowners, colleges, and universities. ...01, was Jim Schimmer. The current director is former Arkansas Secretary of State [[Sharon Priest]].
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  • The Big Dam Bridge cost $16.5 million to build. The federal and state government contributed $12.5 million to the bridge's construction costs, and [[Pulaski
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  • [[Image:Ark-coat-arms.jpg|thumb|300px|Coat of Arms of the State of Arkansas.]] ...d by Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas. The state is commonly divided into six distinct geographical regions: the Mississippi
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  • '''Jim Guy Tucker''' is past lieutenant governor and governor of the state of Arkansas. ...im Guy went to Harvard University and graduated with a bachelor of arts in government in 1964. While attending the University of Arkansas Law School, he also ser
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  • ...and Tourism''' is responsible for tourism and the management of fifty-two state parks. ...mber of visitors had increased to 21 million, with $4.3 billion spent. The state tax revenue generated by such spending totaled some $238 million. Less than
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  • ...oric Arkansas Museum]], [[Mosaic Templars Cultural Center]], and the [[Old State House]]. [[Category:State government]]
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  • ...s]] government founded in 1944. The commission began creating lakes in the state to meet the renewed interest in recreational fishing in 1951 with the creat [[Category:State government]]
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  • ...e site a [[City of Little Rock]] park in perpetuity. In return the federal government received 1,000 acres of land in North Little Rock on Big Rock Mountain wher *Nate Hinkel, "Natural Game Evolves in Natural State," ''Arkansas Business,'' May 29, 2006.
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  • ...Arkansas-supreme-court.JPG|thumb|The Arkansas Supreme Court chamber at the State Capitol. Photo by Phil Frana.]] ...l E. Danielson. The Court is housed in the [[Justice Building]] near the [[State Capitol]].
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  • ...s]]). Martin did political polling and political analysis for national and state campaigns. He was an on-air election pollster for ABC, CBS, NBC, and C-SPAN ...artin Corporation]]. Martin Corporation conducted public opinion research, government relations work, and strategic marketing. Clients included EDS, IUSACELL, Lo
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  • ...on system" for the state. The department is administered by the [[Arkansas State Highway Commission]] with six members appointed to ten-year terms by the [[ *[http://www.arkansashighways.com/ Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department homepage]
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  • ...was dismantled under Act 3 over the controversial issue of road bonds. The State Highway Commission was re-established by the Mack-Blackwell amendment in 19 ...ighway and Transportation Department, 1913–1992'' (Little Rock: Arkansas State Highway Transportation Department, 1992).
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  • White was a part of Democrat David Pryor’s cabinet. White left state government in 1977 to become president of Capital Savings and Loan Co. In 1980 White r .... In 1998 White was appointed by Governor Mike Huckabee to the position of State Banking Commissioner. White died on May 21, 2003, of a heart attack in Litt
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  • ...-governor [[Bill Clinton]] in 1985 to underwrite public bond issues in the state of Arkansas. The ADFA broke the near-monopoly on public bond issues held by [[Category:State government]]
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  • '''Pulaski County''' is the most populous county in Arkansas and home of the state capitol at [[Little Rock]]. The county was established on December 15, 1818 ...[[Pyeattstown]]. In 1820 [[Cadron Settlement]] became the official seat of government in the county. That same year the U.S. Post Office established mail service
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  • ...nly Main Street reopened to traffic. The old mall is now occupied by state government agencies.
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  • ...on center, parking deck, and public plaza, and link them to the [[Arkansas State House]], [[Camelot Hotel]], renovated [[Robinson Auditorium]], and [[Arkans
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  • ...foundries were enlisted to make grapeshot, and prisoners in the [[Arkansas State Penitentiary]] manufactured such articles as shoes, boots, uniforms, drums, ...islature to disband, and resulting in Governor Rector's establishment of a government in exile in Jackson, Mississippi. Most manufacturing was relocated to more
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  • ...erupted when it became clear that Little Rock would become the site of the state capitol. O'Hara had accidentally built his proposed capital site on land in
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  • The '''Arkansas Department of Human Services''' (DHS) is the state government's largest agency, with 7,500 employees and ten divisions. The ten divisions DHS is headquartered at the [[State Office Building Urban Campus]] along Main Street between Seventh and Eighth
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  • ...oples referred to the Quapaw as the "Akansea," from which the name of the state of Arkansas is derived. The Quapaw Indian Agency is today located in Ottawa ...ittle Rock]] to the United States in preparation for a move of the seat of government to the city from Arkansas Post near the mouth of the Arkansas River. The lo
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  • ...iver]] to Little Rock. Woodruff remained the official printer of the state government until 1833, when the ''[[Arkansas Advocate]]'' took over the contract.
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  • ...rict for [[Pulaski County]], Arkansas, and much of the eastern part of the state. The District of Arkansas was established on June 15, 1836. It was divided [[Category:Federal government]]
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  • ...wer & Light''' (AP&L) was a public utility and political powerhouse in the state of Arkansas. The company was instrumental in the rural electrification movement in the state.
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  • ...Little Rock Downtown Partnership]] to replace [[Barton Coliseum]] at the [[State Fairgrounds]] with a downtown multi-use sports arena. ...sis]]. Moses and Allen took their organization's pitch everywhere, to city government offices, to churches and clubs, and into the workrooms other nonprofits. Th
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  • The '''Student Government Association''' of the [[University of Central Arkansas]], SGA, represents t * Week to achieve "University" status (State College of Arkansas)
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  • ...nsas State Teachers College (ASTC) in 1925. The school became known as the State College of Arkansas (SCA) in January 1967 to better reflect newer missions ...sidential living and learning communities in Residential Colleges: Hughes, State, STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics), Short/Denny, and Mi
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  • ====Government==== *[[First State Bank]]
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  • ====Law, government, and politics==== ...are found in the county, including [[Toad Suck Park]] and [[Woolly Hollow State Park]]. [[Lake Conway]] hosts national fishing tournaments and is the large
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  • ...established to help planters and farmers by providing them with a pool of state-secured credit. ...national economic panic. The panic brought the price of real estate in the state down dramatically, and much of the assets of the bank had been secured by u
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