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The Arkansas Project was launched in 2008 as a source for incisive commentary and reporting on Arkansas government, politics, media and more. In 2011, The Arkansas Project became an affiliate of the Advance Arkansas Institute. The Arkansas Project supplied daily commentary until 2019, but is now largely inactive.
David Kinkade was the chief writer and the editor of The Arkansas Project until 2011. After the site became affiliated with the Advance Arkansas Institute, Dan Greenberg was editor of The Arkansas Project until it became inactive in 2019. During that eight-year period, the writers for the site included Nic Horton, Marc Kilmer, and Caleb Taylor.
Marc Kilmer
Feb 12, 20193 min read
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...
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Marc Kilmer
Jan 29, 20192 min read
Praise 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...
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Marc Kilmer
Jan 23, 20193 min read
Secure 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...
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Marc Kilmer
Dec 27, 20182 min read
Will 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...
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Marc Kilmer
Dec 8, 20182 min read
Fixing 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...
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Marc Kilmer
Nov 30, 20183 min read
Who 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...
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Marc Kilmer
Nov 4, 20182 min read
Consider 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...
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Marc Kilmer
Nov 1, 20183 min read
Courtney 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...
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Marc Kilmer
Oct 31, 20183 min read
Some 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...
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Marc Kilmer
Oct 30, 20182 min read
Minimum 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...
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Marc Kilmer
Oct 29, 20185 min read
Justice 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...
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Marc Kilmer
Oct 24, 20184 min read
A 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...
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Marc Kilmer
Oct 23, 20185 min read
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...
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Marc Kilmer
Oct 19, 20184 min read
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...
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Marc Kilmer
Aug 30, 20183 min read
De-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...
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Marc Kilmer
Aug 29, 20183 min read
Fighting 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,...
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Marc Kilmer
Aug 16, 20182 min read
Rep. 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...
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Marc Kilmer
Aug 15, 20182 min read
Rep. Womack’s Bills
As part of an ongoing TAP series, we are looking at the legislation introduced by members of the Arkansas congressional delegation....
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Marc Kilmer
Aug 7, 20182 min read
Looking 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...
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Marc Kilmer
Jul 17, 20182 min read
Where 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....
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Marc Kilmer
May 22, 20184 min read
Justice 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...
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Marc Kilmer
Apr 10, 20183 min read
Has 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...
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Marc Kilmer
Feb 13, 20183 min read
Trial 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...
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Daniel Greenberg
Feb 6, 201812 min read
Brill Speaks! The Conclusion
Today TAP concludes Dan Greenberg’s 2017 interview with Professor Howard Brill of the University of Arkansas School of Law. The...
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