Rayne Gordon, president of the Sonny Boy Blues Society, approached the Helena-West Helena Advertising & Promotions Commission Thursday for help funding the 23rd annual Arkansas Blues & Heritage Festival. The application filed with the commission reflected a request for a one-time lump sum of $15,000 and $2,500 monthly but commissioners only funded the $15,000 request citing issues with festival finances.
An application filed for funding through the A&P commission shows a request of $100,000. The library began its literary efforts in 1891 by the Helena Women’s Association and in 1920, changed its name to the Helena Public Library.
LITTLE ROCK – Payday lenders throughout Arkansas must shut down immediately or face the likelihood of lawsuits, Attorney General Dustin McDaniel said Tuesday.
McDaniel said he sent letters to about 60 companies that run 156 payday lending outlets in Arkansas, telling them to cease and desist their practices.
LITTLE ROCK (AP) — Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel moved Tuesday to shut down payday lending companies in the state, saying the fees they charge harmed the working poor and violated the state constitution’s ban on high-interest loans.
Southern Good Faith Fund’s Policy Team has been leading the Arkansans Against Payday Lending coalition.
Good news out of Arkansas: after a hard-fought legal and political battle, the state should soon be rid of predatory payday lending.
Southern’s Volunteer Income Tax Preparation (VITA) sites have processed more than $1 million in 2007 tax year refunds; all sites open through April 15, 2008
LITTLE ROCK—Southern Good Faith Fund and its parent company, Southern Bancorp Inc. (“Southern”), held a news conference today to highlight the availability of free income tax preparation services to Arkansans with annual incomes of $40,000 or less-a threshold that covers more than half of Arkansas households.
Ben Steinberg came to Little Rock four years ago as a volunteer in Wesley Clark’s presidential campaign and never left the state.
In July 2004, he made a home in Arkansas as the president of Southern Financial Partners in Helena. “Our goal is to revitalize distressed rural communities,” the 40-year-old California native said.
The following report includes sections on the growing popularity of career pathways strategies nationally, the need for the Career Pathways Initiative in Arkansas, the objectives and design of CPI in Arkansas, and descriptive outcomes from the second year of the initiative. The report ends with a
discussion of opportunities for strengthening the initiative.
Members of the housing subcommittee of the Clark County Strategic Plan will contact all the mayors in the county to get their communities involved in a housing study, said Tom Calhoon, co-chairman of the subcommittee.
The main theme of a meeting on Wednesday, Calhoon said, was to find out what kind of housing was needed in the county. “What will sell?” was the question, he said.
The Boys & Girls Club of Phillips County is a recent recipient of a grant from the Helena Health Foundation. The purpose of the grant is to assist the Boys & Girls Club in implementing programs in some of the club’s key areas of focus such as health education, fitness and health skills.