The boom in NWA continues to provide interesting fodder for students of local government. Here, in the Morning News, a fellow with some agricultural acreage wants to sell some for industrial use. The Lowell council won’t go along because a neighboring subdivision objects. Fine, the property owner says. I’ll make it a hog farm, which current zoning allows.

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