By Doug Thompson FAYETTEVILLE -
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike Beebe said Friday he would propose paying off between $250 million and $300 million in state bond debt from the state’s growing budget surplus. - Saturday, Sep 23, 2006
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BY DANIEL NASAW ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
Republican attorney general candidate Gunner DeLay on Friday criticized his Democratic opponent’s vote to reduce the amount of prison time methamphetamine dealers must serve before becoming eligible for parole.
   DeLay also criticized Democratic Party campaign literature touting Dustin McDaniel, contending that it wrongly states that the state representative from Jonesboro supports […]

BY CHARLIE FRAGO ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
The Arkansas Board of Parole has recommended that Gov. Mike Huckabee pardon a burglar whose 2001 clemency outraged prosecutors and made headlines after news broke that his stepmother was a member of the governor’s staff.
Donald Clark had a lengthy criminal record filled with burglary, theft, hot-check and illegal-possession-of-a-firearm arrests when […]

By Rob Moritz
LITTLE ROCK - Republican gubernatorial hopeful Asa Hutchinson accused Democrat Mike Beebe of inconsistencies on property rights Friday and challenged the state attorney general to revise a formal opinion he wrote saying state law is sufficient. - Saturday, Sep 23, 2006
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By Rob Moritz
Arkansas News Bureau
LITTLE ROCK - The Democrat and Republican running for governor sparred over payday lenders Thursday with one accusing the other of not being as sincere in his opposition to the much-maligned business.Republican Asa Hutchinson asked Democratic opponent Mike Beebe to return a $200 donation given to him by Cash Advance of […]