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The city resolution approved earlier this summer on Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott Jr.'s "Rebuild the Rock" sales-tax package outlines a $40 million investment in early-childhood education over the next decade.
Little Rock board approves resolution outlining planned tax spending Little Rock board approves resolution outlining planned tax spending Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott Jr. (file photo) The Little Rock Board of Directors has approved a resolution that lays out how the city would spend a one cent sales tax increase if voters approve it in a special September 14 election. The vote was 6-4 with At-large Directors Dean Kumpuris and Antwan Phillips, Ward 3 Director Kathy Webb, Ward 4 Director Capi Peck and Ward 7 Director BJ Wyrick voting for the resolution, and At...
Send As the state rushes to address the digital divide separating urban and rural Arkansans by using federal dollars for broadband infrastructure projects, another digital divide exists within urban communities. “In cities like Little Rock and North Little Rock, it’s not so much an issue of having adequate broadband, but it’s an issue of the affordability, of being able to access that and having the educational tools to be able to use the online platforms that are available,” former Little Rock Mayor Mark Stodola told Arkansas Business in a recent interview. H...
Controversial topics drowned out the typical bread-and-butter business of the legislative session, and that played out in public opinion. A new Talk
The Little Rock School District Board will consider at its next meeting whether to expand its community school model into two new schools, Mabelvale Elementary and Mabelvale Middle School.