Mistresee Matisse to the Slog! An excellent development.

How come the hot, hot teller at my bank never wants me to "work off" my mortgage payment? Huh? Why is that?

Waldron, Scott County, Arkansas is a very corrupt portion of the state. Everyone is dirty especially law enforcement. Large Timber Companies have a heavy hand in local pockets and their regional Timber contractors intimidate local landowners by shooting cattle, forging documents and also threaten landowners by claiming they will be shot if the owner of the land has hopes of improving the property value by placing a fence on the property line. Here is just another example of Scott County’s corruption:

Former Scott County clerk James Owen and his former chief deputy, Lisa Yandell, are due in court today at Waldron for arraignment on theft and forgery charges. The two were arrested in May after an investigation that ensued following the pair's arrest year on drug charges outside a casino in Oklahoma.

The 45-year-old Owens is charged with three counts of theft and 13 counts of forgery, while the 39-year-old Yandell faces two counts of theft and four counts of forgery. Authorities say Owens signed 13 unauthorized checks made out to himself for a total of $4,790. They say he also cashed six checks for $6,923 for pay periods in which he had already been paid, and wrote a $660 check for a computer and printer the county never received. Charging documents accuse Yandell of obtaining checks totaling $2,665 for pay periods for which she had already been paid, and reimbursed herself $370 for postage stamps the county never received.