Public safety meetings offer Benton residents a voice in city's future
      The Benton Citizens Public Safety Committee has been studying the status of the city's police, fire and emergency services and their future. Members of the panel were given in fall 2007 the task of determining the condition of public safety in the city and where it should be five, 10 and even 20 ...
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Toiling in the severance cross-hairs
John Brummett
      CHARLESTON - Lonnie Turner was so evidently displeased to see me that you might have thought he was a Razorbacks fan who had booed Texas. But, no, he was an oil and gas lawyer from Ozark, distressed about the imminent rise in the severance tax on natural gas.
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'Summit' not conducted as advertised
Mike Dougherty
      A mayor calling an event he is sponsoring a "citizens summit" implies that he wants to hear from residents on what they believe is important. While rather loftily named and possibly even mislabeled, Benton Mayor Rick Holland's Citizens Summit, held March 18, was touted as the perfect complement to...
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