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 Governor Mike Beebe today authorized an additional $300,000 from Arkansas’s Emergency Response Fund for state response to Hurricane Gustav.
These funds were requested for additional resources needed to meet the needs of evacuees who have sought refuge in Arkansas.
Last Friday, the Governor released $250,000 from Arkansas’s Emergency Response Fund.

Governor Mike Beebe Friday authorized up to $250,000 from  Arkansas’s Emergency Response Fund for potential state response to Tropical Storm Gustav, expected to make landfall as a strong hurricane on the Gulf Coast next week.

Note: This week’s column is taken from Governor Beebe’s remarks for the eulogy of Bill Gwatney on August 18, 2008 at Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church in Little Rock.

The Arkansas Delta Training and Education Consortium in East Arkansas is the model for matching the programs of our community colleges to the needs of potential new business and area employers in the State. Now ADTEC is being honored for its success.

In my first State of the State Address, I said that the best schools and educational opportunities in the world are useless without jobs that pay well at home. Otherwise, we are preparing our best and brightest students for jobs in Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, or other cities. With the announcement of a new technology industry [...]

It is my pleasure to announce that Hewlett-Packard (HP), one of the world’s largest information technology (IT) companies, is the newest addition to the Arkansas business world. 
This international company is bringing a customer-service and technical-support center to the Meadows Technology Park in Conway. 

The drive to become more innovative and creative and to ask “why” has long helped America lead the world in cutting-edge scientific and technological advances.

As we approach this year’s Memorial Day commemoration, a time to remember the sacrifices of the men and women in our Armed Services throughout the history of this country, it is certainly appropriate to note that yesterday, the United States Senate overwhelmingly passed the new 21st-Century G.I. Bill. The new bill will provide increased educational [...]

With the growth of the Internet and online communication in our State and around the world, I am working to connect the people of Arkansas with the latest technology. To that end, I have stepped up our efforts online to offer a new type of electronic access to all Arkansans by overhauling our State’s Web [...]

Governor Mike Beebe declared Chicot, Crittenden, Lonoke and Mississippi Counties state disaster areas due to damage caused by powerful tornadoes and violent thunderstorms on Friday, May 2. 
Beebe has already declared disasters in Benton, Cleburne, Conway, Grant, Pulaski, Saline and Van Buren Counties.