The mayor and city attorney of North Little Rock don’t take my calls. They don’t like my questions.

For example: How can they say they advertised Monday’s sham public hearing on a TIF district flimflam 15 days in advance when the proposition has changed since it was first proposed and is still not in final form?

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How can they say they’ve given adequate public notice when they have not yet released the maps of the proposed new TIF district, which Hays is attempting to create to work around legal obstacles to the mayor’s plan to steal tax revenue not created by a TIF district from schools and give it to a hotel developer blocks away?

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