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100 years ago

March 5, 1917

• More than 100 women are enrolled for the suffrage school of instruction which opens at 10 o'clock this morning at the Little Rock Public Library under the auspices of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. A public mass meeting in the interest of suffrage will be held Tuesday evening at the courthouse. Three prominent leaders in suffrage work will be in charge of the school. Mrs. T. T. Cotnam of Little Rock, Miss Annie Doughty of New York and Mrs. Halsey W. Wilson of White Plains, N.Y.

50 years ago

March 5, 1967

• Arkansas clergymen responded quickly and vocally Saturday to Senate Bill 391, the open gambling bill passed Friday by the House. Public statements denouncing the bill came from Hot Springs, Little Rock, Arkadelphia and Conway. All the statements urged Governor Rockefeller to veto the bill. Rev. Woodrow W. Smith of Hot Springs, chairman of the Board of Christian Social Concerns of the Little Rock Conference of the Methodist Church, called for "a strong assembly" of ministers and laymen at 9 a.m. Monday on the steps of the Capitol in protest against the bill.

25 years ago

March 5, 1992

• Alcohol and other drug abuse is costing Little Rock $216,371,332 in public safety and health every year, a report from the city's Fighting Back office revealed Wednesday. The report translates the human cost of treating and dealing with substance abuse into hard dollars. "Whether the problem affects us personally, we are all casualities of substance abuse," Mayor Sharon Priest said at a news conference Wednesday.

10 years ago

March 5, 2007

• If you've been ignoring your Little Rock parking tickets, you are not alone. And the city plans to go after you. Tired of losing hundreds of thousands of dollars it doesn't collect and that state law eventually wipes clean, Arkansas' capital city is reviving a crackdown on people who refuse to pay their parking fines. The city has begun to warn hundreds of drivers who hold multiple tickets that they better pay up or contest their fines in city court. Otherwise they'll be subject to an attempted public shame campaign. The first batch of 47 letters went out Feb. 23. Those top parking outlaws, who owe from several hundred to several thousand dollars each, have until March 27 to make amends or see their names in a paid newspaper advertisement.

Metro on 03/05/2017

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