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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.
AAI Announces Freedom Scorecard for State Legislators
Today, the Advance Arkansas Institute has unveiled its latest masterpiece: Arkansas’s Freedom Scorecard. The Scorecard ranks the voting...
Nic Horton
Oct 11, 20121 min read
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Arkansas Needs Higher Taxes!
After 200 years of ranking at the bottom of the 50 states for poverty, we have finally identified what ails us in Arkansas: our taxes are...
Nic Horton
Oct 10, 20123 min read
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Arkansas Roundup, October 5
Here’s a look at the news & views from around the Natural State this week: Scalped: While discussing immigration policy at a recent town...
Nic Horton
Oct 5, 20122 min read
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Hold Down The Fort: Gene Jeffress Goes Native
The fearless Chief Jeffress. You probably remember the series of videos of state Senator Gene Jeffress we posted back in July. Jeffress,...
Nic Horton
Oct 3, 20122 min read
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Max Brantley Has No ID
Liberal blogumnist Max Brantley is setting new records on the outrageometer. In a recent tirade against Voter ID laws — which the...
Nic Horton
Oct 2, 20125 min read
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Trashing “Trashing Arkansas”
For about a week now, Governor Mike Beebe has seized just about every available opportunity to launch visceral attacks against our...
Nic Horton
Oct 1, 20123 min read
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Governor Beebe, You’re Not Always Right
AR Project flashback: The Many Faces of Mike Beebe Earlier this week, Governor Mike Beebe created a bit of a kerfuffle when he spoke...
Nic Horton
Sep 27, 20123 min read
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Arkansas Roundup, September 14
Walker wrap-up: The internal investigation into Bill Walker’s hiring of his friend for a position she did not qualify for has produced a...
Nic Horton
Sep 14, 20122 min read
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Lightning Strikes–Again!
Wendy Rosen, via her Facebook page Some people, including liberals in Arkansas, deny that voter fraud happens enough to worry about, and...
Nic Horton
Sep 13, 20122 min read
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Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures in District 46 Race
The police chief of my community in north-central Arkansas created quite a stir over the weekend after his comments in the Sunday paper....
Nic Horton
Sep 12, 20124 min read
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Arkansas Roundup, August 31
Here’s a look at the news from around the Natural State this week: Deaf are heard: State Career Education director Bill Walker has...
Nic Horton
Aug 31, 20121 min read
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AAI Newsletters at Rock Bottom Prices!
Last week, I let you know about AAI’s free weekly policy newsletter. Many of you signed up–congratulations! Today I’m here to remind you...
Nic Horton
Aug 29, 20121 min read
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State Retirement Director: “I Wasn’t Sure Exactly Why I’m Here”
Admiral Stockdale can relate. So you know those meetings Rep. Clark Hall has been having, costing taxpayers over $32,000 (so far) this...
Nic Horton
Aug 28, 20122 min read
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Arkansas Roundup, August 24
An Arkansas Project flashback. Here’s a look at some policy & political happenin’s from around Arkansas this week: Pass the brownies:...
Nic Horton
Aug 24, 20122 min read
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Chairman Clark Hall: Overdoing Oversight?
The Arkansas House’s State Agencies & Governmental Affairs committee has been meeting frequently lately — very frequently. The casual...
Nic Horton
Aug 20, 20123 min read
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Sheriff Vance’s (Disqualifying) Criminal Record
It appears that Grant County sheriff Ray Vance has a criminal record. Under the Arkansas Constitution (Article 5, Section 9), which...
Nic Horton
Aug 10, 20123 min read
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Beebe Administration Turns A Deaf Ear To Deaf Community
“Seven other candidates tested better. Six other candidates were certified. But the state hired her anyway.” That’s the lead in to a news...
Nic Horton
Jul 18, 20123 min read
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The Real Story of Ethics Reform in Arkansas
There has been a lot of talk in the Arkansas blogosphere about the proposed ethics reforms being proposed by ‘Regnat Populus.’ I myself...
Nic Horton
Jun 14, 20124 min read
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It’s Primary Day in Arkansas!
Today is the day you have all been waiting for: the last day of those terrible primary ads in Arkansas! Of course we do not endorse...
Nic Horton
May 22, 20121 min read
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GOP Lawmakers Push for Lower Reimbursements
A few Arkansas Republican legislators are kicking off the new fiscal year right by declining a planned increase in mileage...
Nic Horton
Jul 5, 20112 min read
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About That Blue Hog Report Business….
Ugh, blogging about blogging…that is just the worst. I had promised myself I’d stop doing that (sometime after this), because really, who...
Nic Horton
May 30, 20114 min read
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