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100 YEARS AGO July 28 1918

FAYETTEVILLE — The annual summer session of the University of Arkansas closed today, after a record attendance of 85 students, who came from 52 counties in Arkansas, as well as from seven other states. A large part of the attendance was made up of retired teachers who are preparing themselves to take up their profession again as a wartime work.

50 YEARS AGO July 28, 1968

Ted Boswell, of Bryant, a Democratic candidate for governor, and the League of Women Voters of Pulaski County both criticized the County Democratic Committee officials Saturday for planning to use only 278 of the County’s 500 voting machines in Tuesday’s Democratic primary. They also faulted the Committee officials for the decision to use paper ballots in the event there aren’t enough machines at the precincts to cope with the voter turnout.

25 YEARS AGO

July 28, 1993

Riding a tide of opposition to politics as usual, Mike Huckabee of Texarkana on Tuesday became the first Republican since 1980 to be elected to statewide office in Arkansas. In the special election for lieutenant governor, the Baptist minister and communications consultant shocked Democrat Nate Coulter of Little Rock. It was the first election of the post-Clinton era of Arkansas politics. Never had a race for lieutenant governor attracted so much attention. And rarely had Arkansas voters so surprised the experts. Huckabee will be the only Republican among the seven statewide elected officials.

10 YEARS AGO July 28, 2008

Gov. Mike Beebe has ended a nearly four-decades-old practice of holding Cabinet meetings, a tradition dating back to former Gov. Dale Bumpers. Each governor has his own style for managing the giant that state government has become, consisting of more than 27,000 employees — not counting higher education — and involving more than $21.1 billion a year. And Beebe’s choice not to sit down regularly with a Cabinet seems to have had no deleterious effect on the operation. “We meet all the time with our agency heads,” said Matt DeCample, Beebe’s spokesman. “Individual meetings were all we really needed. We didn’t need to sit everyone down in a room together and call it a Cabinet.” Still, there hasn’t been any formal decision to abolish a Cabinet, Beebe aides said.