... state's Fayetteville shale play. If Beebe carried through, his proposal could compete with a measure proposed by former gas company executive Sheffield Nelson to raise the state's severance tax to 7 percent of the market value of natural gas ...

LITTLE ROCK A former gas company executive says he plans to tweak the language of his proposal to raise the state's severance tax to meet objections by ...

... the percentage increase is negotiable. The Ethics Commission adopted an advisory opinion in response to a request from former gas company executive Sheffield Nelson, who is seeking to place a proposal to raise the severance tax on the November ballot ...

... the (gas) industry would absolutely love is for us to go down divergent paths." Sheffield Nelson of Little Rock, former gas company executive who wants to raise the Arkansas severance tax.

... be put on the ballot, and I'm not sure that wouldn't pass," Rogers said, referring to a ballot initiative by former gas executive Sheffield Nelson, who has said he will abandon his measure if Beebe's proposal passes. The consensus among ...

... besides his popularity. Some who normally would vote against raising taxes may consider Beebe's plan preferable to former gas company executive Sheffield Nelson's proposed initiated act, Parry said. Nelson's initiative would raise the severance ...

Sheffield Nelson, former gas company executive and twice failed Republican gubernatorial candidate, announced Friday that he will lead a campaign for an initiated ...

... in 2010. He says legislative solutions are better public policy than initiated acts. - Advertisement - Nelson, the former gas executive and former state higher education board member with close ties to his alma mater, the University of Central ...

... gas station across from Central High to phone in reports about the attempts to integrate the school. On Saturday, the former gas station, which had been abandoned for years, reopened as a museum and visitors center about the school and the efforts ...