Donor Privacy’s Importance in the Real World
It’s a common agenda item for “progressives” to support mandatory reporting to the government of donors to organizations that speak out on public policy. They dress up this expansion of government...
View ArticlePraise for Food Stamp Work Requirement
Arkansas is a national leader when it comes to work requirements for its public assistance programs. The main focus is usually on its Medicaid work requirement, but Gov. Asa Hutchinson has also...
View ArticleSecure Arkansas Woefully Misinformed about Constitutional Convention
If you read the Secure Arkansas website, you’d get the idea that the biggest threats facing Arkansans are fluoridation, vaccines, and an Article V constitutional convention. We can authoritatively...
View ArticleWill Arkansas Embrace Free Range Parenting in 2019?
Depending on the whims of a police officer or a state worker, the types of activity that used to be normal for children a couple decades ago could mean big legal trouble for parents today. Legislators...
View ArticleFixing Corporate Welfare in Arkansas
Can corporate welfare (or, if you prefer, “economic development”) be improved in Arkansas? The answer is clearly “yes,” but what would this improvement entail? For some, it would mean ending the Quick...
View ArticleWho Controls Spending — the Supreme Court or Legislators?
When legislators look for a little transparency in state spending, they should be rewarded. After all, the people deserve to know how state money is being spent, right? When it comes to the Arkansas...
View ArticleConsider the Trade-Offs of a Minimum Wage Hike
Voters will go to the polls shortly and decide, among other things, whether to increase Arkansas’s minimum wage. While advocates for the minimum wage hike are selling it as a painless way to give...
View ArticleCourtney Goodson’s Made-Up “Duty of Confidentiality”
Well, we finally have an answer about whether or not Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Courtney Goodson requested a pay raise. As part of her defamation lawsuit against the Republican State Leadership...
View ArticleSome Problems with a Minimum Wage Hike
Soon Arkansas voters will be deciding whether or not to increase the state’s minimum wage from $8.50 an hour to $11.00 an hour. Those in favor of Issue 5 have been touting studies that ostensibly show...
View ArticleMinimum Wage Hike Will Have a Big Impact
On Election Day, voters will have a chance to decide if Arkansas workers will be prohibited from accepting a job that pays less than $11 per hour. That is the essence of the ballot measure to increase...
View ArticleJustice Goodson is a Danger to the Constitution
You may have read ads questioning Justice Courtney Goodson’s ethics. Or you may have read news stories (or blog posts) about the ads that question Justice Goodson’s ethics. These ads raise some...
View ArticleA Rapid (and Wrong) Response in the Goodson Race
Who watches the judicial watchdogs? That question has plagued me when considering the ongoing disputes in Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Courtney Goodson’s re-election race. A group calling itself the...
View ArticleJustice Shawn Womack Gets It
Arkansans’ chances to enact lawsuit reform are dead for this year. You can thank a misguided ruling by the state’s Supreme Court for that; earlier this week, it decided to exercise a judicial veto so...
View ArticleConduit For Action Is Misrepresenting Issue 1 Again
There has been a lot of confusion and misinformation surrounding Issue 1. The lawyer lobby is doing all it can to spread bogus horror stories and mislead voters about the consequences of lawsuit...
View ArticleDe-Mystifying Issue 1
The tort reform amendment on November’s ballot, Issue 1, is on quite a few voters’ minds. At least it is on the mind of Jim Pumphrey, who recently wrote a letter to the Hot Springs Sentinel Record. In...
View ArticleFighting for the First Amendment in Arkansas
It’s campaign season. That means people are going to be saying negative things about candidates running for office. To those running, this isn’t fun. They hear all kinds of things about themselves that...
View ArticleRep. Westerman’s Bills
Here on TAP, we’ve been using our recent blog posts to focus on the legislation introduced by members of the Arkansas congressional delegation. Today we are ending this series by examining Rep. Bruce...
View ArticleRep. Womack’s Bills
As part of an ongoing TAP series, we are looking at the legislation introduced by members of the Arkansas congressional delegation. Today, the legislation sponsored by Rep. Steve Womack, representing...
View ArticleRep. French Hill’s Bills
Here on TAP we’ve been looking at the bills sponsored by the Arkansas congressional delegation. Today, it’s time to examine some of the 17 bills sponsored by the man representing Arkansas’s Second...
View ArticleLooking at Rep. Rick Crawford’s Legislation
Last week, I explored some of the bills introduced by Arkansas’s two U.S. senators. Now it’s time to turn attention to the members of the state’s House delegation. What issues do they find most...
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