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Arkansas

Arkansas higher education faces reduction budget proposal

Under a proposed budget released in March by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, public funding for higher education in Arkansas would be reduced by more than $2.4 million. Nearly all of the schools in the University of Arkansas system would each see funding cuts in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, along with cuts for two-year […]

Mayor

Salem Mayor Chris Hoy talks homeless crisis, budget deficit

Homelessness, housing and the city’s projected budget deficit headlined Salem Mayor Chris Hoy’s second annual State of the City address Wednesday. Hoy also pointed to the launch of commercial passenger air service at the Salem Airport, new commercial, industrial and housing developments throughout the city, and investments in downtown such as the Cannery development, Holman […]

Mayor

Greencastle Mayor Ben Thomas on water, rain, police, bulk days

Mayor Ben Thomas Jr. So, how about those snow flurries on Sunday afternoon and into the evening? I just dumped the rain gauge from Saturday’s rainfall. How much did we get? More in a few minutes as I author this Mayor’s Report about “water.” It was 37 degrees outside this afternoon with a wind chill […]

City Council

Ambulance ‘late calls’ discussed at Topeka City Council meeting | #citycouncil

Ambulance response times appear to be getting worse in Topeka. That’s according to a Wichita State University study, but American Medical Response is pushing back on those claims. The percentage of “late calls” by AMR, Shawnee County’s ambulance service, nearly doubled between 2020 and 2022 in “Zone 1,” which covers most of Topeka, Topeka City […]

City Council

What do the rules for local governing bodies say? | #citycouncil

Crowds pouring into local government meetings isn’t new, especially in a post-COVID climate for public engagement. But over the last two years, how residents engage with their representatives — and how those representatives respond — has increasingly become a concern for public bodies around St. Clair County. Each local board, commission, or council can have […]

City Council

Clifton NJ City Council opts not to increase police numbers | #citycouncil

Clifton’s City Council rejected a measure Tuesday that would have increased the Police Department’s table of organization to 195 officers. Current staffing levels call for 171 officers, but the department has about 150. The council agreed in principal in October to increase the size of the department and introduced the ordinance for additional positions. For […]