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479 Show - September 21, 2026
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Coming up on this week's episode, the heavy week of government meetings generated a lot of discussion but not too much immediate action, with the Fayetteville City Council allocating funds for its bonds, the Siloam Springs Board of Directors approving a memorandum of understanding on a major law enforcement task force, the Lowell City Council discussing and tabling its proposal to pull the plug on the Flock cameras while Washington Countny's Quorum Court pulled the trigger despite the use of the devices not even on the agenda or any of the current or potentially elected officials.
The University of Arkansas Board of Trustees had a busy two days, upholding the dismissal of a former political science professor after questioning why the research expenses he turned in coincided with his wedding and reception, which might not have been money well spent after he got his name in the paper, not to mention a few more invitations to court with his lady love in line to collect some future alimony and child support payments. The board would then turn to the critical matter of the state of the UA athletic program, particularly the football program whose next coach might as well be Art Turf.
Our Benton County Extension report takes us to more serious matters with the emergence of a nasty food allergy.
And our trip off the beaten path takes us to Mankato, Minnesota, where an Albanian visitor attempted a marketing scheme that led to the latest variation of the Arthur Miller tome, Incarceration of a Salesman.