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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.
O’Care Architect: “Lack Of Transparency” Reason Law Passed
A new video of Jonathan Gruber, one of Obamacare’s architects, surfaced Sunday in which he said a “lack of transparency” and the...
Caleb Taylor
Nov 10, 20141 min read
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Arkansas 39th in Business Tax Climate
A central issue facing the legislature and Gov.-elect Asa Hutchinson in 2015: will they be able to lower the tax burden on Arkansans? ...
Caleb Taylor
Nov 7, 20142 min read
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PO State Budgeting Will Meet Harsh Reality in 2017
We wrote yesterday about the decreasing likelihood of funding for Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion in Arkansas (the private option) making...
Caleb Taylor
Nov 6, 20143 min read
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Silly Season Round-Up
We wrote last week about a misleading ad from Pat Hays regarding his newfound love for the National Rifle Association and gun rights. It...
Caleb Taylor
Nov 3, 20142 min read
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Issue 1: A Check On Regulators
Arkansas voters can check and balance overregulation at the state level if Issue 1 is approved by voters. Issue 1 allows voters to amend...
Caleb Taylor
Oct 31, 20142 min read
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Fraud-Ridden Minimum Wage Issue OK’d by Supreme Court
The Arkansas Supreme Court, in its opinion yesterday, removed the final obstacle to a statewide vote on hiking the minimum wage. One...
Caleb Taylor
Oct 28, 20143 min read
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McLean Desperately Attempting To Save O’Care In AR
As loyal readers of this humble blog know, state Rep. James McLean, inaugural member of the Davy Carter wing of the Democratic Party, has...
Caleb Taylor
Oct 23, 20143 min read
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Announcing: AAI's New App
The newest project from the Advance Arkansas Institute gives you extraordinary knowledge about the workings of the Arkansas General...
Daniel Greenberg
Oct 23, 20141 min read
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Issue 3 Terribly Unpopular With Voters
We wrote recently about the disdain certain state legislators have for ordinary Arkansans who don’t think weakening term limits through...
Caleb Taylor
Oct 21, 20141 min read
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Voting Against Weakened Term Limits Doesn’t Make You a Nut
Yesterday the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette featured an interesting quote from state Senator Jon Woods about Issue 3, a constitutional...
Caleb Taylor
Oct 17, 20143 min read
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The State Supreme Court’s (Literally) Peculiar Decision
Late yesterday afternoon, our state’s Supreme Court struck down the voter ID law that the Arkansas General Assembly passed last year. It...
Daniel Greenberg
Oct 16, 20144 min read
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Texas Rethinks Crony Capitalism. Will Arkansas?
Grant Tennille, executive director of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission (AEDC), is probably best known on this blog for this...
Caleb Taylor
Oct 14, 20142 min read
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Poll: Low Support for O’Care in Arkansas
A new poll out today from the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) shows that despite some campaigns’ and officials’ ideas to...
Caleb Taylor
Oct 8, 20142 min read
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McLean Cuts Class
Rep. James McLean, chair of the House Education Committee, has been skipping class. You’ll remember McLean from our reporting last...
Caleb Taylor
Oct 1, 20142 min read
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Another Case Shows Need For Right-To-Record Law
Another law enforcement agency was in the news recently after it paid the cost for attempting to restrict the right of citizens to film...
Caleb Taylor
Sep 19, 20143 min read
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House Speaker More Loyal to Obamacare than Political Party
In the course of tweeting the finer points of the Miss America pageant Sunday night, Speaker of the House (and alleged Republican) Davy...
Caleb Taylor
Sep 16, 20142 min read
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Arkansas’s Republican Future
Fred Barnes just published a fascinating article in the Weekly Standard about the collapse of the Democratic Party in Arkansas. He...
Daniel Greenberg
Sep 15, 20142 min read
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Arkansas Needs More Accountability for Executive Sessions
We’ve previously written about ways Arkansas’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) could be improved. A story in today’s Arkansas...
Caleb Taylor
Sep 12, 20142 min read
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1.) Dump More People On Medicaid 2.) Brag About Cost Savings 3.) Repeat
Governor Mike Beebe, and other private option advocates, would have you believe that everything is going swell for the program —...
Caleb Taylor
Sep 11, 20142 min read
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Who Will Regulate the Regulators?
We often write about Arkansas’s out-of-control desire to license and regulate more and more businesses. Just last week, we wrote about...
Caleb Taylor
Sep 8, 20142 min read
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The Minimum Wage Hike: Hurting Those Who Need Help
We’ve written here recently about the bad effects a minimum wage hike would have for Arkansas. Given the news today that the...
Caleb Taylor
Sep 3, 20143 min read
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Faux Outrage In The Heights
Have you heard of the Southern Progress Fund? It’s a political action committee that hopes to bring the blessings of progressivism to...
Caleb Taylor
Aug 28, 20143 min read
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Crittenden Regional Hospital Not “Saved” by the Private Option
Remember how the private option was going to save rural hospitals? Remember how hospital lobbyist Bo Ryall explained to the state...
Caleb Taylor
Aug 27, 20143 min read
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Democrats’ Minimum Wage Credibility Problem
We’ve written recently about the rising teenage unemployment rate in Arkansas and how a proposed ballot initiative would exacerbate this...
Caleb Taylor
Aug 26, 20143 min read
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