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<title><![CDATA[Bella Vista Groundbreaking Ceremony]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Governor Beebe recently joined U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood near State Highway 72 to mark the beginning of construction on the Bella Vista Bypass and the Northwest Arkansas Razorback Regional Greenway. <br />]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New Mobile Unit Purchased to Train Workers for Green Jobs]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[For Immediate Release: June 14, 2011
Contact Person and Phone Number: Kimberly Friedman (501) 682-3125


LITTLE ROCK - Apprenticeship training for jobs in "green" industries just got a lot easier with the purchase of a new Mobile Training Unit.

The Arkansas Apprenticeship Coalition purchased the unit with a sub-grant it received from the Arkansas Department of Workforce Services. Last year...<br />]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Arkansas Boys and Girls Club Receives Recovery Dollars]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Department of Workforce Services began partnering with the Arkansas Alliance of Boys & Girls Club in August 2010 to provide prevention and intervention services for needy youth and their families.

The pilot program is available at each of the 58 Boys & Girls Club facilities around the state and provides support to children ages 6 to 18 in an effort to reduce alcohol, drug and cigarette use...<br />]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Firestone Expansion Celebration and Science Center Ribbon Cutting]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Firestone Building Products Company recently celebrated the expansion of its Prescott manufacturing facility, which will result in 100 new jobs, along with the 418 jobs it will retain. In addition to the expansion celebration, which was held at Prescott Elementary School, officials of Firestone Building Products joined local and state leaders at the event to celebrate the opening of the Firestone ...<br />]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Arkansas Nonprofit Latino Academy Officially Begins]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Arkansas Nonprofit Latino Academy participants include16 nonprofit organizations that are led by a Latino or Marshallese leader, or serve the Latino or Marshallese population, who have been chosen to receive training on leadership, grant writing, financial management and other management topics. Participants will gather monthly for collaborative training and technical assistance. During January, t...<br />]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Little Rock Rewarded for Saving Energy ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[According to a recent KARK news story, Entergy Arkansas, Inc. is making sure energy efficiency improvements are paying off in a big way for the City of Little Rock thanks to an Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant awarded to the city by the Department of Energy as a part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

The story can be viewed in its entirety by clicking here.<br />]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Business Picking Back Up for Architecture Firms]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[According to a recent KTHV news story, Arkansas architecture firms suffered like most industries during the recession, but with the federal stimulus act and economic indexes slowly building back up, the top five largest firms in the state are sticking to their blueprints. Click here for the full news story. <br />]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Backing Businesses in Texarkana]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A recent Texarkana Gazette article examined how stimulus funds helped businesses in Texarkana. Below is an excerpt from the article.

-Crist Gearig, a catfish farmer, received a $100,000 grant through the Arkansas Agriculture Department, one of 52 Arkansas aquaculturalists to receive money through the 2008 Aquaculture Grant Program. The money was disbursed in 2009.

The story can be viewed i...<br />]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Boosting Education in Texarkana]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A recent Texarkana Gazette article examined how stimulus funds gave a boost to education in Texarkana. Below are a few excerpts from the article.

-Funding for pre-K through high school accounted for nearly a third of all stimulus spending in the region. The money trickled down to all area school districts, ranging from $100,933 for Avinger Independent School District in Cass County to $8.6 mil...<br />]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Summer ACT Academy Program]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Department of Workforce Services used Temporary Assistance for Needy Families stimulus dollars to fund the Summer ACT Academy Program for rising juniors and seniors and graduates in 19 of the 21 counties that are part of the Arkansas Works program.

The program's goal was to increase the ACT scores of students in the selected counties, reduce remediation rates, improve the effectiveness of ...<br />]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Arkansas Recovery Office Releases Report on Recovery Act Spending]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Report covers spending on projects and programs going back to the start of stimulus

LITTLE ROCK - Funding provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in Arkansas had reached at least $1.9 billion on September 30, 2010, according to a report released Thursday by the Arkansas Office of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

At that time, 64 percent of the roughly $3 billion aw...<br />]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Stepping Stone School Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Stepping Stone School marked a new phase Friday with a dedication ceremony that had Executive Director Toni Wilson promising the best is yet to come for the $14.3-million facility. Gov. Mike Beebe ceremonially cut the ribbon opening the Alma school. He praised Toni Wilson, the organization's Board of Directors and staff not only for the replacement school for developmentally disabled children but ...<br />]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ADEQ Awarded Stimulus Dollars for Underground Storage Tank Work]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality was awarded 1.6 million dollars in ARRA funds to investigate leaking underground petroleum storage tanks and take corrective action if needed.

Currently, work is being done on six such sites throughout the State of Arkansas. Underground storage tank sites must be cleaned up to restore and protect groundwater and create a safe environment for th...<br />]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[MSCC Sets Aviation Maintenance Open House]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Mid-South Community College received a $3.4 million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to establish an integrated, FAA-certified training program for airframe and powerplant technicians. The college will present an Aviation Maintenance Technology "Get Ready 2011" workshop/open house on Thursday, Dec. 2, 6-7:30 p.m.

For more details on the training pro...<br />]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Campus Making Renovations with Stimulus Money]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was signed into law by President Barack Obama in February 2009 and was designed as an economic stimulus program that would direct investments to the states for a number of years.  ASU is currently receiving some of the funds of this act in order to improve the ASU Jonesboro campus.

Article can be viewed in full by clicking here. <br />]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Salvation Army of Texarkana]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Salvation Army of Texarkana received a $500,000 Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing (HPRP) American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant in 2010 to provide financial assistance to families and individuals to prevent homelessness and to get the homeless back into a home. This grant money can be used to make utility deposits and pay utility bills.

Article can be viewed in its entiret...<br />]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[DWS Mobile Resource Units]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Arkansas Department of Workforce Services recently acquired two additional Mobile Resource Units funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).  These units are utilized in a variety of ways:

1.	Agency Outreach Programs;
2.	To assist employers with hiring initiatives;
3.	Opportunity / Job Fairs;
4.	Natural disaster response; and
5.	To supplement local office resourc...<br />]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[AP Fabrications Has Been Awarded a Green Technology Grant]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Arkansas Energy Office has awarded a green technology grant to AP Fabrications. The $109,345 grant will pay for a demonstration of their new economizer design, which is an additional heat exchange that turns a boiler's waste heat into heat water or air.

Article can be viewed in its entirety by clicking here.<br />]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Avoided Through Weatherization ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA["If we'd had a couple cold nights where I would've had to use my heat more than usual, it probably would've put me to sleep and left me there - it was just too much carbon monoxide coming out in the house," says Mark Pickartz, of Van Buren, Ark.

Pickartz's home was weatherized in February by his local community action agency, Crawford-Sebastian Community Development Coucil (C-SCDC). When energy...<br />]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hot Springs First Community to Receive Energy-Efficient Traffic Light Upgrades]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (October 22, 2010) -  Hot Springs is the first of 74 Arkansas communities to have incandescent traffic lights and pedestrian crossing signals replaced with new, energy-efficient LED signals. Contractors began the installation of the LED lights in Hot Springs this week. The statewide project is funded with a $807,730 grant through the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Efficie...<br />]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Great Science Makeover]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Bryant School District asked its teachers to write grant proposals requesting classroom or instructional items that were research-based and would also improve student learning.  American Recovery and Reinvestment (ARRA) funds were used to transform the proposals into reality.

Donna Peters, a teacher at Davis Elementary, requested $25,627 to support the renovation and stocking of two hands-o...<br />]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Water Repair in Humnoke]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The east Arkansas town of Humnoke had been cited by the Arkansas Department of Health for the poor condition of their elevated water tank. Paint was flaking off inside the tank, putting the water supply at risk.

Humnoke received a $300,000 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) along with a grant from the Arkansas Department of Rural Services to repaint and refurbish the water tank, and to r...<br />]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Regional Airport Receives Stimulus Funds]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[According to a recent Stephens Washington Bureau article, Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport Director Kelly Johnson told a congressional panel Wednesday that nearly $9.5 million in federal stimulus funds the airport received last year prevented a potential costly shutdown of the airport.

Story can be viewed in its entirety by clicking here.
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Eureka Springs Hospital to Benefit from Recovery Act]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Eureka Springs Hospital will benefit from a portion of $420,000 provided by the Recovery Act to computerize health records at Arkansas's rural hospitals.

Story can be found in its entirety by clicking here. <br />]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Records Will Be Computerized]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[According to a recent Stuttgart Daily Citizen article, Stuttgart's Baptist Health Medical Center will be one of 35 Arkansas critical access and rural hospitals to receive stimulus funds to computerize their health records.

Story can be found it its entirety by clicking here. <br />]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hope Public Schools Installing Surveillance Cameras in Classrooms]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[According to a recent Texarkana Gazette article, Hope Public Schools recently installed surveillance cameras in district classrooms. The cameras were paid for with $540,000 in federal stimulus funds.

Article can be found in full by clicking here. <br />]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Stimulus Used to Resurface U.S. Highway 62]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[According to a recent Baxter Bulletin article, a 3.5-mile highway resurfacing project from Gassville into Marion County is the first use of federal stimulus funds for improvements to U.S. Highway 62 in Baxter County.

View article in its entirety by clicking here. <br />]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Stimulus Funds Provide Plane to Contain Wildfires]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A Turbine Thrush single engine air tanker (SEAT) provided by Western Pilot Service has been staged at the Batesville Municipal Airport in response to the dry conditions Arkansas is experiencing. The plane carries up to 500 gallons of water to assist firefighters on the ground to contain wildfires. On Aug. 24, the SEAT dropped a load of water on a fire in Cleburne County threatening a home and outb...<br />]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pulaski Tech to Benefit from Broadband Grant]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[According to a recent Pulaski Technical College (PTC) news release, students at PTC and other Arkansas public two-year colleges will benefit from a grant awarded to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in partnership with the Arkansas Association of Two-Year Colleges (AATYC).

The grant, which is funded by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration through ...<br />]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lamar Schools Going Green]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[According to a recent article in the Russellville Courier, one of Lamar's school programs is changing the way some students learn science and mathematics. Lamar's Jobs for America's Graduates (JAG) students had the chance to learn how to install solar panels during the spring months. Now students will complete a much larger project as they work with the city and the school. The project is all made...<br />]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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