Claudia Lauer
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LR utility’s payment to IRS probed
posted: 05/25/2012 5:43 a.m. Comment 1
A 2006 payment of more than $24,000 to the Internal Revenue Service by the Little Rock Wastewater Utility on behalf of a former employee will be examined by police at the request of City Manager Bruce Moore. Moore said he made the request Thursday after he and several city directors received an anonymous letter Wednesday that detailed the payment and included copies of the check paid directly to the IRS in 2006 on behalf of former employee Deborah Vought, as well as the payment voucher approved and initialed by the utility’s executive director, Reggie Corbitt.
LR begins tax projects
posted: 05/25/2012 5:16 a.m. Discuss
Little Rock residents can now see signs of their tax dollars at work — literally.
Park’s spray pad a hit with kids
posted: 05/24/2012 3:56 a.m. Comments 2
A dozen children escaped the heat Wednesday as they splashed, jumped, shrieked and climbed through water sprays and over boulder mountains built by the Little Rock Department of Parks and Recreation.
Gift of van to get kids going
posted: 05/19/2012 5:08 a.m. Discuss
Thanks to a donation Friday from Yellow Cab Co., the Dalton Whetstone Boys and Girls Club can offer the children who attend the club’s programs a comfy ride.
2 tech-park plans revised, take in less land
posted: 05/17/2012 5:12 a.m. Comments 2
A preliminary site study presented Wednesday to the Little Rock Technology Park Authority board excludes dozens of homes from two of the three proposed sites for a technology park and adjusts the boundaries of those sites.
Board OKs hiring counsel in chief probe
posted: 05/16/2012 5:12 a.m. Discuss
The Metropolitan Housing Alliance board voted during a special meeting Tuesday to hire special legal counsel to continue the investigation into a personnel complaint against the alliance’s executive director, Shelly Ehenger, who was suspended with pay by the board on May 3.
LR sewer-rate hearing set June 5
posted: 05/16/2012 4:57 a.m. Discuss
The Little Rock Board of Directors voted Tuesday to schedule a public hearing on June 5 for a proposed sewerrate increase.
Chancellors ask to address site of technology park
posted: 05/15/2012 4:15 a.m.
Discuss
The chancellors from two of the three research partners in the Little Rock Technology Park asked Monday to speak at the park authority board’s meeting Wednesday in support of considering the impact the decision of where to locate the park could have on neighborhood residents.
Limit small liquor stores, cut crime, some urge LR
posted: 05/13/2012 4:48 a.m. Comments 2
Convenience stores with colorful advertising for beer and liquor cap both ends of the 12th Street corridor, at Woodrow Street and at University Avenue.
Plan adds LR housing rentals
posted: 05/12/2012 4:56 a.m. Discuss
A Little Rock developer is planning to renovate 16 single family or duplex homes into rental units for low-income residents near Central High School.
