Fayetteville Planning Commission Urges Revision of Draft Rules Limiting Tobacco Shops

Fayetteville police Lt. Darry Whitaker told a city commission Tuesday night tobacco shops increase crime. He said there are nine tobacco shops along Murchison Road, which is in his police district, and many of them are near neighborhoods. “That’s just alarming,” he said. “It’s too many.” Tobacco-oriented businesses, he said, attract...

Court Order Suggests City Could Lose Video Poker Lawsuit

A state Supreme Court order suggests Fayetteville will lose a lawsuit that accused the city of unconstitutionally levying extremely high taxes on video gambling businesses. But the city attorney said she thinks the city can prove that the gambling taxes are constitutional. The lawsuit grew out of steep taxes that Fayetteville...

Kirby: MOD Chef’s Auction Aims To Be Scrumptious

So, there we were, Lonnie Player, Wade Duggins, Bill Bowman and me, all gorging ourselves with one delectable dish after another. “Hmmm,” Duggins was saying as he sank his teeth into an appetizer with some kind of sauce. Bowman’s eyes would brighten as, one dish after another, all of us were...