The fund needs to be used to meet whatever the opportunity is. The governor needs to have the ability to put things on the table that would close the deal, so to speak. |
There have been three major court cases in the last 25 years on this. Each one of those court cases set a different test. The court keeps changing the rules. ... I'm not being critical necessarily of that. Courts can change the rules. Times change, standards change, rules change, tests change, the approaches change. |
This is about the issues we face in Poinsett County. |
This is the kind of research and development we need to be seeking and exploring. Countries like China and India know exactly what they?re going to do 10 years from now. They?re going to take things from us. The challenge for us is to figure out what we?re going to do it 10 years from now that no one else has a clue about. |
Utility representatives will not show up at your door unannounced and will not ask for banking information in unsolicited phone calls. If you get a request for personal information that leaves you skeptical, contact my office and we can help determine if the call was legitimate. |
We have a Supreme Court justice who said, 'You all have been doing this for 23 years, when are you going to get it right ?' I think that is disingenuous. |
What I found is that in all of the major leaps forward that Arkansas has had over the last 20 years ... it's always been a collaboration, a partnership between the private sector and the public sector. |
What we have to do is make sure more people are in that pool of having some opportunity to have some coverage so that we lessen that pressure to increase prices to make up for those losses. |
You can't just abandon the generation you already have in the process. |
You want to provide as many opportunities and help rural schools as much as you can. But you can't do it at the risk of affecting any of the quality standards and educational opportunities for any child, regardless of where they live and regardless of what the size of their school is. |