You, there! What are you doing on Saturday? Nothing worthwhile, I assume. Therefore I suggest you look into attending the Arkansas Society of Professional Journalists Blogging Academy: An Introduction to Community Journalism in Little Rock, where they'll have a bunch of so-called self-styled "experts" on hand to talk about how you, too, can make a name for yourself through a time consuming, non-paying hobby. It's at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law School (Room 305) from 10 a.m to … [Read more...]

I'm heading over to the KARN studios in scenic West Little Rock at 2 p.m., where guest host Alice Stewart will have me and Think Tank blogger Blake Rutherford on to chat about politics and more as Blake and I continue our ongoing "Goofus and Gallant" routine. (He's Goofus. Obviously.) That's 102.9 FM/920 AM from 2-3 p.m.  Tune in! Posting will resume later this afternoon. … [Read more...]

....why, on the Arkansas Sunday Edition on The Buzz/103.7, of course, hosted by local blogging and broadcasting legend Blake Rutherford. It'll be me, Lance Turner and the rest of the "Not-Ready-For-9 A.M. Players" talking politics and whatever else comes up. Show kicks off at 7 a.m., and you do not want to miss it. You do not, I say! … [Read more...]

Former U.S. Attorney Tim Griffin, who announced recently that he would not be pursuing a 2010 Senate race but now may be running for Congress against Rep. Mike Ross, because, you  know, why not, has launched a new daily e-mail update, Arkansas Morning. It's a political news tipsheet on state and national issues, with a good round-up of headlines from legacy media, blogs, Twitter feeds, etc. Good stuff in there— you should go over here to subscribe. (You can get a taste of recent submissions … [Read more...]

You're not going to believe this, but it so happens that today is The Arkansas Project's one-year anniversary, more or less. We went public on July 31, 2008, after blogging in the dark for a few days beforehand to try everything out. Oh, what a fun year we've had! For all of you history buffs out there, I was looking back through The Arkansas Project archives and I came across the blog's original business plan, in which we laid out our strategic goals for generating revenues and making this … [Read more...]

A few Arkansas Project pals have scored some nice achievements these last few days, so let us now pay tribute to these characters. 1) Arkansas News Bureau columnist David J. Sanders landed a fine guest column in today's Wall Street Journal. Sanders reports from a recent conference on philanthropy at the Clinton Presidential Center and questions the growing dependence of government dollars in private foundations. Sanders writes: Remarkably, most of the recommendations had little to do with … [Read more...]