Arkansas Earns Recognition for Burdening Workers
Arkansas is Number 3 – but that’s nothing to celebrate. Arkansas recently showed up near the top of a list of states with the highest occupational licensing burdens. While some claim that no publicity...
View ArticleSubsidizing the Yellow King
Fans off the HBO series “True Detective” are excited by the recent news that this hit show is coming back for a third season. Governor Asa Hutchinson is excited that this season will film in northwest...
View ArticleCivil Rights Fight Shows Need for Donor Privacy
Should the government mandate that nonprofit organizations reveal their supporters? That is what some legislators (such as Rep. Clarke Tucker) want. There was a push during the 2017 legislative session...
View ArticleJan Morgan’s Big Problem
See if you can pick out what’s wrong with this Facebook post: Do you have an idea why The Arkansas Project may not be thrilled with what gubernatorial candidate Jan Morgan did here? You may notice a...
View ArticleBrill Speaks! Part 3
This is the third part of our interview with Professor Howard Brill of the University of Arkansas School of Law, who was appointed Brill to be the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas in...
View ArticleBrill Speaks! The Conclusion
Today TAP concludes Dan Greenberg’s 2017 interview with Professor Howard Brill of the University of Arkansas School of Law. The discussion between Greenberg and Brill has covered many topics, ranging...
View ArticleTrial Lawyers Once Again Hiding Behind Nursing Home Residents
Nursing home residents deserve to be treated well. They deserve to live in dignity and have the best care that money can buy. I don’t think anyone disagrees with these ideas. In the debate over the...
View ArticleHas the NRA Bought Rep. French Hill?
If you read some news stories, you’d think that Rep. French Hill is the Congressman from the National Rifle Association (NRA). He is portrayed as being the recipient of over $1 million in NRA...
View ArticleJustice Goodson is Keeping Secrets
As TAP readers know, Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Courtney Goodson has been making headlines lately for her lawsuits that attack due process and the First Amendment. She has resorted to these attacks...
View ArticleWhere Does Clarke Tucker Stand on Abolishing ICE?
Should the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency be disbanded? That is what Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has called for. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez used this issue to help her defeat incumbent...
View ArticleLooking at Senator Tom Cotton’s Legislation
What are our elected officials up to in Washington? Many of us follow the big issues going on in Congress that we see on the news – the Supreme Court nomination, tariffs, the Mueller investigation,...
View ArticleSenator John Boozman’s Bills
Yesterday we took a look at the bills being sponsored by Senator Tom Cotton. Today, I’ll run through some of the 22 bills or resolutions sponsored by Sen. John Boozman: 2364 – to give the EPA authority...
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...
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 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. 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 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 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...
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Conduit 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...
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Justice 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...
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