The Kresge Foundation, a product of the retailing fortune that built K-Mart, has made a $600,000 challenge grant to the Arkasas Repertory Theatre’s capital campaign.

Say, isn’t there another discount store fortune in these parts that might pitch in? That is if it could take time off from wrecking the Little Rock School District. Maybe if The Rep would call itself a charter school, it could nab a million or so, too.

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