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Who Moved the Mayor’s Cheese?

December 25, 2011

There was a popular business book several years ago titled “Who Moved My Cheese?” about the changing business environment and having to adapt to it. Right about now Mayor Hays may want to consider looking for that book. It seems with the challenging economic environment we all face the City sales tax revenue has been down, but compounding that problem is the change in the way sales taxes are reported. The State Legislature this year required sales tax to be reported on point of delivery of the sale, not point of sale. This means for those who buy a refrigerator at Best Buy and have it delivered in Maumelle, those sales tax revenues will go to Maumelle and not...

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Federal money for interstate improvements

December 22, 2011

Just got a press release from one of our senators in D.C. about federal money being handed out for “transportation and economic priorities.” The closest to Argenta any of the money will be spent is in west Little Rock: $5 million for upgrades to the I-630/I-430 interchange “to eliminate severe congestion during peak travel periods.” How, exactly, that will impact Argenta folk who commute to the far reaches of WLR is yet to be seen. But are there any...

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Bold Thieves in Argenta

December 17, 2008

Once again, the employees of ASCO Hardware on 4th Street in Argenta arrived at the office and found that someone had broken into their building and stolen various items. This is the third break in in three weeks, the second just this past week alone. In the last 28 years their have been few and far between incidents and maybe they’ve had something taken from the porch, out of the trucks in the back or a little vandalism. Not...

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Local Argentan To Perform in Argenta

December 10, 2008

Argenta-resident and musician Brent Stroud, along with Adam Nelsen, will perform two downtown North Little Rock shows in December billed as “The Duo”.  On Friday December 12th, they will be at Cregreens Irish Pub performing original acoustic/electric music as...

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Horse-Bus Accident on Main Street Bridge

November 30, 2008

A Cantral Arkansas Transit bus rear ended a horse drawn carriage Friday night on the Main Street bridge.  The carriage is seen regularly in Argenta doing rides for tourists and weddings.  At least two of the carriage riders are...

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NLR Times, Where Are You?

November 26, 2008

The NLR Times has again shown their irrelavency and continued their long slow slide into oblivion in the local news business.  As of 7:30 am this morning, when many people are getting their morning news from the newspaper and...

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