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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.
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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Northwest Arkansas House Primaries Will Impact Arkansas-Obamacare’s Future
Many people are watching the four Republican state Senate primaries across Arkansas. And private-option obsessives like me have reason...
Nic Horton
May 15, 20145 min read
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GOP Senate Primaries, Round Three: Sample vs. Neal
Jerry Neal (left) and Senator Bill Sample. Round three of our review of the upcoming Republican primaries for state Senate is here. We’re...
Nic Horton
Mar 20, 20143 min read
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House GOP To Speaker Carter: We Need To Talk
27 House Republican legislators have signed and delivered a letter to Speaker Davy Carter that says, quite simply: it’s time to negotiate...
Nic Horton
Feb 25, 20142 min read
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Carter: If You Won’t Do What I Want, “That’s Just Not Reasonable Whatsoever"
Lots of Arkansas legislators have strong feelings about the “private” option: tempers on the House floor have been running high. Several...
Daniel Greenberg
Feb 24, 20144 min read
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The Definition of Insanity
Albert Einstein famously said that insanity is “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Today, for the...
Nic Horton
Feb 21, 20143 min read
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What On Earth Is Nate Bell Thinking?
Many observers of the “private” option’s passage through the legislative process were taken aback by Rep. Nate Bell’s amendment earlier...
Daniel Greenberg
Feb 14, 20145 min read
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Davy Carter’s Empty Threat Of A “Government Shutdown”
House Speaker Davy Carter, as he is prone to do, emulated Governor Beebe yesterday while speaking with the media. According to one...
Nic Horton
Feb 13, 20142 min read
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Three Cheers For More Transparency In The House
Speaker of the House Davy Carter has come in for some criticism on this blog in the past, but I want to compliment him for his latest...
Daniel Greenberg
Feb 12, 20141 min read
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Employer Mandate Delayed, Again, As Predicted
Mere hours ago, while discussing the Obamacare “private” option, House Speaker Davy Carter told the media: Nothing’s changed materially...
Nic Horton
Feb 10, 20143 min read
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MoveOn.org's Newest Left-Wing Project: Saving the 'Private' Option!
You might be familiar with MoveOn.org, a left-wing organization – oops, excuse me, a “progressive” organization – that pushes its agenda...
Nic Horton
Jan 27, 20142 min read
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Our Year In Review
2013 was a colossal year for TheArkansasProject.com: not only did we double our web traffic from 2012, we also saw our highest traffic...
Nic Horton
Jan 1, 20141 min read
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Just Saying Hello (And Those Other Guys Suck!)
Last week, an email with the subject line “Just Saying Hello” went out to legislative supporters of the “private option”/Medicaid...
Nic Horton
Dec 16, 20134 min read
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The “Private Option’s” War On Women (Updated)
Update, Monday, November 4th: I received an email from DHS spokesperson Amy Webb late Friday afternoon. Apparently, she gave me incorrect...
Nic Horton
Oct 31, 20133 min read
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Memo To GOP Legislators: We Tried To Warn You
Back during the debate over Medicaid expansion (which lawmakers attempted to rebrand as “the private option”), this blog, in conjunction...
Nic Horton
Oct 24, 20133 min read
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Beebe's "Non-Starter" Wish List Becomes Starter For Some GOP Legislators
Yesterday, I wrote about Governor Beebe’s redistribution plan for Arkansas school funding. As part of that story, I shared several mass...
Nic Horton
Oct 15, 20133 min read
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GOP Legislators Spar Over Beebe’s Plan For School Funding
For the past few weeks, legislators have debated (mostly behind closed doors) how to solve the teacher insurance premium hike “crisis.”...
Nic Horton
Oct 14, 20135 min read
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Failure To Launch: Obamacare’s No Good, Very Bad First Day
In the field of health care/Medicaid policy, there are few people as learned — or as witty — as Jonathan Ingram. (You might recognize his...
Nic Horton
Oct 2, 20132 min read
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Pennsylvania Propaganda: State Plays Word Games With Medicaid Expansion
The latest battleground over expanding Medicaid is Pennsylvania: earlier this week, Governor Tom Corbett (R) announced he will support...
Nic Horton
Sep 18, 20132 min read
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Talkin' U.S. Senate Race With Paul Harrell
In case you missed it, here’s my weekly segment with The Paul Harrell Program from last Thursday. We discuss Davy Carter’s Twitter...
Nic Horton
Aug 12, 20131 min read
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Davy Carter's Epic Twitter Meltdown
Although national Democrats are frantically trying to pare down Obamacare — The Hill is reporting that several Democrats (including our...
Nic Horton
Aug 9, 20133 min read
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Darr: I Would’ve Voted Against ‘Private Option’
In a radio interview with Mountain Talk 97 that will air tomorrow, Lt. Governor Mark Darr says he “wasn’t for” the ‘private option’...
Nic Horton
Jul 26, 20134 min read
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Unsolved Mysteries of the Legislature: How Republicans Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace Obamacar
Reps. Biviano, Burris, and others look on as Governor Beebe signs Medicaid expansion. Shortly after my interview with Rep. Mark Biviano...
Nic Horton
Jul 18, 20135 min read
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On the Arkansas Times, Part III: Are Private-Option Advocates Really That Much Smarter Than We Are?
Speaker of the House Davy Carter Upon rereading David Ramsey’s piece on the genesis of the “private option,” it’s hard not to notice the...
Nic Horton
May 20, 20132 min read
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