Between Editions

There haven’t been any blog posts today because I’ve been involved with the groundbreaking ceremony at the new TETRA Technologies calcium chloride plant in Parkers Chapel. Governor Mike Beebe drove down for the event, which was pretty well attended.

The plant will provide 50 permanent jobs and hundreds of temporary construction jobs. That’s definitely a good thing for Union County.

I also interviewed the governor about the future of Pilgrim’s Pride in El Dorado. What he said was encouraging. For more on that, look to Saturday’s El Dorado News-Times.

For now, I’m off to SouthArk’s lecture series, where Maria Haley, the state’s top economist, will be speaking at 7 p.m. More later.

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