Arkansas on Wednesday July 01, 2009

AR: Stimulus funds to aid energy efficiency
By Rob Mero, Northwest Arkansas Times
Fayetteville is receiving $725,000 in federal stimulus funds for energy efficiency and conservation projects.
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AR: Julian to head Education Department
By Staff Reporters, Arkansas News Bureau
Diane Julian, deputy state education commissioner since 2007, becomes interim director of the state Department of Education on Wednesday.
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Financial crisis torments states
By Stephen C. Fehr, Stateline.org Staff Writer
(Updated 11:29 a.m. EDT, July 1, 2009)

California may begin issuing IOUs this week because of the state’s unresolved budget crisis. But government disruptions were averted at least temporarily in five other states that missed a July 1 deadline for closing billion-dollar budget gaps.
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AR: Prison director explains escape, other problems, to lawmakers
By Rob Moritz, Arkansas News Bureau
The director of state prisons told lawmakers Tuesday he was "embarrassed" over recent serious incidents in the system, but that they were isolated and not part of a bigger problem.
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US: Colorado the least obese state
By Lauren Neergaard, The Associated Press, The Denver Post
WASHINGTON—Mississippi's still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama: obese baby boomers.
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