Clark overcomes downfalls, runs for city mayor
Miles Bryant
Issue date: 10/6/08 Section: News
This is the list on Steve Clark's resume: attorney general, chief of staff to Gov. David Pryor, judge, arbitrator, mediator, business executive, professor of law, entrepreneur…convicted of a crime and pardoned eighteen years ago… recovering alcoholic…
"I've been to the United States Supreme Court eight times, and won five of those cases, no lawyer in the history of Arkansas has ever done that. I won an award from the national center of missing and exploited children for my work with missing and exploited children, no other Arkansan has ever been so recognized," Clark said.
However, this year's election for Fayetteville's mayor will have an affect on student's day-to-day life. "The mission of Fayetteville is to serve you as much as it is to serve me, because you are a citizen and a resident for the time you're here whether that's four months, four years or 14 years," Clark said.
A main topic concerning the city of Fayetteville, as well as the nation, this election year is gas prices.
Clark looks at public transportation in, "short term, medium and long term goals.
"The short-term goals include a system in terms of public transportation that's an express transportation, or an express bus," Clark said. "That says, 'this bus runs from point A to point B every day on this schedule and stops at these places in between,' and that includes seven days a week."
The middle stage of Clark's public transportation plan is parking decks. For this Clark uses ideas he gathered from his experiences in Austin. He suggests instead of building up, we can just as easily build down.
"Normally we think of parking decks as structures that rise out of the ground; they should descend into the ground. They are a whole lot less intrusive. It's just as easy to dig down as it is to build up, and yet you leave the surface for purposes that are much better, including grass, trees and flowers."
The third stage in public transportation is the transformation of the bus. "We go to light rail or communal rail. The 20th Century concept of 'one person, one car' that I grew up with is dead, and it needs to have a stake driven through its heart," Clark said.
"I've been to the United States Supreme Court eight times, and won five of those cases, no lawyer in the history of Arkansas has ever done that. I won an award from the national center of missing and exploited children for my work with missing and exploited children, no other Arkansan has ever been so recognized," Clark said.
However, this year's election for Fayetteville's mayor will have an affect on student's day-to-day life. "The mission of Fayetteville is to serve you as much as it is to serve me, because you are a citizen and a resident for the time you're here whether that's four months, four years or 14 years," Clark said.
A main topic concerning the city of Fayetteville, as well as the nation, this election year is gas prices.
Clark looks at public transportation in, "short term, medium and long term goals.
"The short-term goals include a system in terms of public transportation that's an express transportation, or an express bus," Clark said. "That says, 'this bus runs from point A to point B every day on this schedule and stops at these places in between,' and that includes seven days a week."
The middle stage of Clark's public transportation plan is parking decks. For this Clark uses ideas he gathered from his experiences in Austin. He suggests instead of building up, we can just as easily build down.
"Normally we think of parking decks as structures that rise out of the ground; they should descend into the ground. They are a whole lot less intrusive. It's just as easy to dig down as it is to build up, and yet you leave the surface for purposes that are much better, including grass, trees and flowers."
The third stage in public transportation is the transformation of the bus. "We go to light rail or communal rail. The 20th Century concept of 'one person, one car' that I grew up with is dead, and it needs to have a stake driven through its heart," Clark said.
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