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| With Christmas just a few hours away, we’re seeing a great deal of frenzy developing at Arkansas Walmart stores, especially in the newly-remodeled Bentonville Walmart and always hectic Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market in Pinnacle Hills, no too far from the manufacturing plant of one of the hottest toys made near Pinnacle Hills.While some of the hottest toys of the season are available at Target, there are a few that the buyers at Target left off the list.
We found one hot toy you definitely will not find at Target.Check out the following limited edition toys we wish were available only at selected Walmart stores in Arkansas for a limited time. Called Barbee (pronounced “bhay-be” – the “r” is silent) this toy is all the rage among everyone we know – including liberals, gays, homophobics, bankrupt developers, conservatives, and even right-winged politicans – across the state of Arkansas. We hear Bill Clinton will receive one for Christmas this year directly from the manufacturer. Is this fab new toy on your holiday wish list? It should be! Eureka Springs Barbee: This Barbee is made of actual tofu. She has long straight brown hair, arch-less feet, hairy armpits, no makeup and Birkenstock with white socks. She prefers that you call her Willow or when it’s dinner time. She does not want or need a Kenny Barbee, but if you purchase two Harrison Barbees and the optional Subaru wagon, you get a rainbow flag bumper sticker for free. Eureka Springs II Barbee: This versatile Barbee can be easily converted from Barbee to Kenny by simply adding or subtracting the multiple snap-on parts. She still wants you to call her when it’s dinner time. Fayetteville Barbee: Comes with an assortment of second-hand Kate Spade Handbags, a dented Lexus SUV, and a long-haired foreign dog named Honey that humps everything in sight. She lives in a cookie-cutter McMansion with a mortgage that’s so upside down, well, you know. Available with or without the botched tummy tuck, boob job, and face lift. Alcoholic Kenny sold only in conjunction with the augmented version. Fort Smith Barbee: The modern day homemaker Barbee is available with the ten-year-old Ford Windstar mini-van on the verge of being repossessed, plus a matching gym outfit complete with torn armpits to match the torn seats in the van. She gets lost easily and has no full-time occupation. Traffic jamming cell phone sold separately. Harrison Barbee: This pale model comes dressed in her own Wrangler jeans two sizes too small, a NASCAR t-shirt and tweedy bird tattoo on her shoulder. She has a six-pack of Bud light and a Hank Williams Jr. CD set. She can spit over 5 feet and kick mullet-haired Kenny’s butt when she’s drunk. Purchase her pickup truck separately and get a confederate flag bumper sticker absolutely free. Pinnacle Hills Barbee: This yuppie Barbee comes with your choice of last-year’s BMW or Hummer H2. Included are a personalized Starbucks cup good only at the Starbucks that closed last year, a credit card that’s over the limit, and a faux-country club membership. Also available for this set are Shallow Kenny and Private School Skipper. You can only purchase these at the local bank, because everything was repo’d because daddy was a Northwest Arkansas real estate developer that went bust. Rogers Barbee: This Barbee is no longer available for political reasons, but can still be found on eBay. Wearing just one shoe, this Barb went broke running a pizza joint in historic downtown Rogers, then got busted for running a Ponzi-scheme, finally committing pretend-suicide by pretending to throw herself off the Beaver Lake Dam. Springdale Barbee: This Barbee is attired in the traditional chicken-processing job garb, where she chokes Kenny’s little chicken on a daily basis. She comes with a green-card, twelve bambinos, and speaks only Spanish. SW Little Rock Barbee: This Barbee now comes with a stroller and two in-bred infant Barbee wannabes. Optional accessories include a GED with last year’s maps and an expired bus pass. Gangsta Kenny and his 1971 Caddy were available, but is now very difficult to find since the addition of the mixed-breed infant. West Memphis Barbee: This recently paroled Barbee comes with a 9mm toy handgun, a fake Ray Lewis knife, and a 64′ Chevy with dark tinted windows. This model is only available after dark and must be paid for in cash (preferably small, untraceable bills) …unless you are a cop, then we don’t know what you are talking about. Pine Bluff Barbee: This Barbee was never available… she got shot before she made it to the list. Legal Notice: Please do not confuse these toys with products made by other companies, including Barbie (r) which is made by Mattel (r). Our toys should not be confused with any Mattel ™ or Barbie ™ toy, or any other toy on the market. Any resemblance to any toy or person, living or dead, or anything currently available in a Walmart store is a mere coincidence. Parody comparisons are strictly in the eyes of the reader and possibly intended. No Rights are Reserved. A photo of Fayetteville Barbee is shown below so as not to be confused and for comparison to similar products on the market. |
Fayetteville, Northwest Arkansas – The U. S. Marshals Service and the Northwest Arkansas Sex Offender and Violent Crime Task Force recently surpassed a monumental mark. “This month marks 1000 fugitive arrests for the task force,” said Deputy U. S. Marshal Dewaine Allen.
The Task Force began its work in November 2007, with a grant of more than $500,000. The grant was written and is administered by the Benton County Sheriff’s Office, but funding is close to an end. Without additional funding, the NWA Sex Offender and Violent Crime Task Force will have exhausted all resources in March 2010, and effectively conclude operations through the Benton County funding. The U. S. Marshals Service will continue operating the task force, but with limited resources.
According to Deputy Allen, “The grant monies have been used to purchase Task Force Officer vehicles, emergency lighting, radios and other equipment for officers.” The grant was also used to lease a private office space in Springdale until operations could be relocated to the U. S. Marshals Service office in Fayetteville. “Relocating saved us considerable funding, but resources are at an end, and we need additional funding to operate,” said Deputy Allen. Computers, phones, and overtime were also paid from the grant. “Unless additional resources are obtained, the task force will lose its most valuable resource…our administrative assistant, who is paid by the Benton County Sheriff’s Office via the grant,” said Deputy Allen.
The NWA Task Force and its many partners have arrested more than 1000 fugitives since inception. The task force performs sex offender compliance checks throughout Northwest Arkansas, and in its new location serves as the “Fusion Center”, a central location where sex offenders report to initially register, as well as update registration information such as employment, vehicle information, and residence status. Sex offenders from Benton County, Springdale, and Fayetteville currently report to the Fusion Center on a weekly basis.
The Northwest Arkansas Sex Offender and Violent Crime Task Force is comprised of the U. S. Marshals Service, Benton, Washington, Madison, and Carroll County Sheriff’s Office, as well as Fayetteville, Springdale, Rogers, Siloam Springs, and the Bentonville Police Departments. The Arkansas Department of Community Corrections is also a valued member. The Benton County Sheriff’s Office currently manages the grant that funds the task force.
Every year, the U.S. Marshals and its associated task forces throughout the country arrest more fugitives than all federal law enforcement agencies combined. Last year, this number was more than 73,000 state and local fugitives and more than 36,000 federal fugitives. Additional information about the U.S. Marshals can be found at http://www.usmarshals.gov/
Everyone is writing me these days wondering why I’m not spewing my usual volume of banter on this awesome blog of mine (awesome is my word – not theirs).
It seems some readers have gotten used to me writing with the same predictability and hot steam as that geyser which spouts-off in Yellowstone Park.
The answer: blame it on Twitter. We’ve fallen victim to the spell of Twitter. Well not really…We’re not a victim of Twitter-dom.
No, we’re just succumbing to laziness, a spell-check-free world, and a busy schedule (attending speeches, working double-shifts, ranting and raving, and generally pissing everyone off around town with the truth about our neighborhood). I just can’t find enough time to point out everything that’s wrong with this place in detail.
So, if you want the latest sound bytes on what’s going wrong with our neighborhood, check us out on Twitter: www.twitter.com/nwarkansas. I promise to keep it under 140 letters and spaces.
| The University of Arkansas in Northwest Arkansas has notified Celebrate Arkansas magazine to immediately stop publication and distribution of its December issue.The magazine contains pictures of three basketball players that are inappropriate, according to the university. The university is also asking the magazine to take all necessary steps feasible to retrieve copies of the magazine from stores where it is on sale.
The Celebrate Arkansas Publisher issued its own statement to the local 5NEWS over latest University of Arkansas basketball scandal. Read it here: http://ow.ly/MUyr [tag: university of arkansas, basketball, Celebrate Magazine |
| From the wire: Springdale, AR (PRWEB) December 16, 2009 — Entertainment Distributor Hannover House (www.HannoverHouse.com) hired former local news journalist Richard Dean Prudenti as the company’s new Director of Marketing and Publicity, a position Hannover House created in response to a large volume of project titles slated for release in the next year.
Prudenti will oversee distribution of information on Hannover titles and campaigns to media outlets and customers as he works primarily from the company’s Springdale office, warehouse and distribution center at 1428 Chester St. Prudenti is an ambitious young professional who has worked as a news reporter in the media market for more than seven years, most recently with The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas, based in Springdale. His work has earned top honors from the Arkansas Press Association including the 2009 First Place News Story award and the 2008 First Place Coverage of Tourism. “I am very pleased to work for Hannover House,” Prudenti said. “I’ve had a successful run as a journalist in Northwest Arkansas for many years, and I have always enjoyed most those stories that lent themselves to promotional writing. I know what looks good. I know what sounds good. This new position at Hannover House is a great fit.” For more information, contact Eric Parkinson or Fred Shefte at Hannover House, 479-751-4500 or HannoverHouse@aol.com. Website: http://www.hannoverhouse.com/ |
| In spite of all the hype about “the good ‘ol days” of real estate coming back in Washington and Benton County, the bad news keeps stacking up for home sellers.No, I’m not talking about foreclosure sales that are propping up sales and dragging down prices (and banks and real estate agents). I’m talking about homes for sale by people who keep making their payments on time.According to the latest stats from the locals who compile stats about Northwest Arkansas real estate, the average price of homes continued to decline, ‘er I mean tank, in the third quarter.
The average price per square foot of homes sold in Benton County was just $80.26 in the third quarter – compared to $97.16 in the third quarter of 2006. In Washington County, the average price fell from $103.63 to $86.28 per square foot. These are huge price declines worthy of headline-making Las Vegas, Bakersfield, Phoenix, Riverside County (CA), and other high-profile markets that tanked this year. That means three things:
What does this mean for sellers of properties that are owner-occupied and not in some stage of foreclosure? Beyond “expect less” – I have no idea. For community leaders, the message is clear: Figure out the way to bring thousands of jobs (outside of wally-world and vendor-buddies because they aren’t hiring like they used to) to Northwest Arkansas that pay significantly above the minimum wage. Our work force is skilled and smart, albeit decidedly ignorant about what they’re really worth. We’ve got tons of educated and adaptable people looking for jobs. So, the message is clear: In order to fix the housing problem, we need to fix the job problem. |
| The University of Arkansas in Northwest Arkansas is facing one of their worst seasons of crime: theft, on-campus manufacturing of illegal drugs, male students secretly videotaping naked boys in the dorm showers, rapes, illegal reptile dealing, and other serious crimes
On-campus crime is so bad that that are just simply too many to print here. It seems the University of Arkansas has an even longer list of crimes so far this school year than what has been reported in the local media. In fact, crime has been so bad this year, the University Police Department invited us to their annual “open house” earlier than usual to give us, your local media moguls, the opportunity to hear the spin. University officials told us that this year’s batch of crime cases are “somewhat unusual” and are being sensationalized by the local media (there goes that “what we don’t know won’t hurt us” mentality). Here is Rog’s list of the top five (among dozens of) crime cases on the University of Arkansas so far this year:
This doesn’t include increases in your run-of-the-mill “generic” crimes including thefts, illegal drug use and possession. burglaries or “something like that,” one on-campus cop told us.. The good news is that in spite of all the crime this semester, University officials reassured us that crime this semester has not hit a record. Whew, we feel better already. A University spokesperson blamed campus growth for the increase in the number of crimes reported, even though the student population is still less than 20,000. Is the University telling us they are not competent to keep our kids safe on campus? We were also reminded that Washington County in Northwest Arkansas was named as one of the “top 25 counties” in the U.S. for illegal narcotics trafficking by the DEA, the federal government’s drug enforcement agency. |
| Arkansas Best Corp., a trucking holding company here in Northwest Arkansas, said Tuesday it has promoted three executives.
J. Lavon Morton has been named to the position of senior vice president, tax, and chief audit executive. Donald W. Pearson has been named vice president, treasurer. R. David Humphrey will become vice president, investor relations and corporate communications. Arkansas Best is currently working with an outside firm in a search for a new chief financial officer. |
| Weather update: Currently cloudy, and 22 ° F. currently in Rogers, Arkansas |
| Our 2010 New Year’s Resolution is to embarass the @!#% out of the City of Rogers into cleaning up our very own slums, sometimes called the “Historic Downtown Rogers Business District.”
It seems the only thing growing around here is our slums. Which reminds me, why is the City of Rogers allowing that business located at 401 East Oak Street to let an abandoned and vandalized green Lincoln Continental sit along side the road for months. Now that says “Welcome to Rogers” like no other ad can. Sure, we’re early announcing our New Years Resolutions for Northwest Arkansas. We wanted to be sure you read ours first. After all, we are all about being number one. At least fooling ourselves into thinking we’re number one. Just like everyone else around here, what I don’t know won’t hurt me. |
