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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.
Pryor Brags About Job-Killing “Toy Safety” Bill (Plus: More McLean Monitoring)
Mark Pryor listed his work on “toy safety” in Monday’s debate as one of his biggest accomplishments during his tenure in the Senate. Of...
Caleb Taylor
Oct 15, 20142 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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Report: Thousands Of Give Arkansas A Raise Now's Signatures Invalid
It looks like the minimum wage increase initiative is threatened by a couple of self-inflicted wounds. A special master’s report filed...
Caleb Taylor
Oct 10, 20143 min read
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Arkansas 49th in Labor Market Participation
Employment figures released late last week contained a startling fact: labor force participation rates dropped to 62.7 percent, a 37-year...
Caleb Taylor
Oct 7, 20142 min read
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Cato Doesn’t Want To Have Beebe’s Babies
A big chunk of the political class in Arkansas was chattering about the fawning profile of Gov. Mike Beebe in the New York Times...
Caleb Taylor
Oct 2, 20142 min read
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Why Arkansas Voters Don’t Like Higher Internet Sales Taxes
The following is a guest editorial from Andrew Moylan (executive director, R Street Institute) and Doug Kellogg (communications manager,...
Daniel Greenberg
Sep 23, 20143 min read
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Fayetteville Gets In On Uber-Bashing Too
It looks like Fayetteville is trying to join Little Rock on the anti-freedom bandwagon of ride-sharing prohibition. From Arkansas...
Caleb Taylor
Sep 4, 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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REPORT: Arkansas A ‘Sinkhole’ State
If your wallet feels a little lighter lately, that’s because the state of Arkansas has you on the hook for approximately $2,200. ...
Caleb Taylor
Sep 2, 20142 min read
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Happy Labor Day
Happy Labor Day! – a day that always reminds me of Maya Angelou’s maxim, “Nothing will work unless you do.” A few weeks ago, the right...
Daniel Greenberg
Sep 1, 20142 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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Another Round of Obamacare Rate Hikes Coming
It’s almost time for another round of Obamacare health insurance rate hikes in Arkansas. From the Washington Examiner: In Arkansas,...
Caleb Taylor
Aug 22, 20142 min read
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Conway Christmas Tree: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
I admit it: every now and then I wonder if I’m too cynical about what government can accomplish. I was having one of those days yesterday...
Caleb Taylor
Aug 21, 20143 min read
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Sen. Pryor Stops Kids from Eating All-Terrain Vehicles
Can all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) be dangerous to children? Of course. When I was 12, my cousin and I were riding on my grandfather’s...
Marc Kilmer
Aug 21, 20143 min read
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Act 312 Stops Illegal Voter ‘Education’ in Texarkana
We write a lot here about all the bad laws that come out of the state legislature, but today we want to focus on one of the best ones:...
Caleb Taylor
Aug 18, 20142 min read
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Senator Pryor Helps Out Big Toy
Big businesses – or at least big toy makers – don’t have a better friend in the Senate than Mark Pryor. That may seem strange. After all,...
Marc Kilmer
Aug 15, 20143 min read
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Uber/Lyft Working Well in Detroit. Why Not Little Rock?
We wrote a couple weeks ago about Little Rock City Director Joan Adcock’s ongoing crusade to ban (or regulate out of existence)...
Caleb Taylor
Aug 15, 20141 min read
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Making Arkansas a Rich State
What can Arkansas lawmakers do to grow the state’s economy in the years to come? That’s the question a new study, Rich States, Poor...
Marc Kilmer
Aug 14, 20142 min read
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Senator Pryor Kills A Kidd’s Dream
On February 10, 2009, new federal regulations governing lead exposure in children’s products were scheduled to go into effect. One day...
Marc Kilmer
Aug 14, 20143 min read
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Arkansas’s Timid Response to the EPA
Last week, our neighbors in Texas considered how to respond to the EPA’s onerous regulations introduced earlier this summer. From a...
Caleb Taylor
Aug 13, 20143 min read
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CPSIA in 2008: Senator Pryor Capitalizes on a Media Frenzy
“Won’t somebody please think of the children?!” This line from The Simpsons could have been the catchphrase of Senator Mark Pryor’s 2008...
Marc Kilmer
Aug 12, 20142 min read
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Does Senator Pryor Care More About My Children Than I Do?
Senator Mark Pryor probably thinks I’m a bad parent. I just spent ten days exposing my children to products that he considers unsafe. In...
Marc Kilmer
Aug 11, 20143 min read
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Sales Tax Holiday Leads to High Tax Hangover
All tax reductions aren’t created equal — and nowhere is this more evident than in this weekend’s annual sales tax holiday. Because of...
Caleb Taylor
Aug 1, 20142 min read
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More Harmful EPA Regs Possible Later in 2014
The EPA’s next regulation, perhaps? New Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations could bring massive job losses to Arkansas,...
Caleb Taylor
Jul 31, 20142 min read
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