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Mayor Frank Scott Jr. will deliver this year's State of the City address from the newly renovated Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts on Feb. 8.
The mayor's office announced the date and venue on Monday. A "City of Little Rock Involvement Fair" where attendees can meet city employees will precede the speech.
Themes of the address, which will be Scott's sixth as mayor, are likely to include tornado recovery efforts and the sales-tax referendum expected to take place in November.
Pulaski County Circuit Judge Cara Connors has denied a Little Rock historic-preservation group's request to intervene in the Pike-Fletcher-Terry House lawsuit.
The Quapaw Quarter Association filed the motion to intervene last June. A recent court filing said the deterioration of the mansion represented a "special and peculiar injury" to the nonprofit organization compared to the general public.
Finally, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin is seeking to enforce a $20,000 civil penalty against landlord Imran Bohra and his firm, Entropy Systems, Inc.
Then-Attorney General Leslie Rutledge sued Bohra and his company in 2019 following an Arkansas Democrat-Gazette investigation.
Griffin's office claims that the defendants have failed to include a notice on leases informing tenants of their right to file a complaint with the attorney general's office as required by a 2022 consent judgment.
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