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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.
How Conduit for Action Betrayed Conservative Activism in 2016
As discussed in a previous blog post, Conduit for Action seems to have made a second career of chastising others for being insufficiently...
Marc Kilmer
Nov 7, 20174 min read
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Conduit for Action Is Throwing Stones From Inside Its Glass House
Criticizing elected officials is part of the job for think tanks, journalists, and public policy organizations. It is fair to criticize...
Marc Kilmer
Nov 6, 20173 min read
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Au revoir
(Editor’s note — this post was written roughly one week before it was published.) About twelve hours from now, I begin a new job:...
Daniel Greenberg
Nov 6, 20172 min read
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Judge: No Need For Restart Of O’Care Cost-Sharing Payments
The Trump administration doesn’t have to restart subsidies for insurance companies created during the Obama administration, according to...
Caleb Taylor
Oct 26, 20171 min read
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Anti-Tort Reform Spokesman Walks Back His “Angry” Rights Rhetoric
The 2018 election is over a year away, but the misinformation about tort reform has already begun in earnest. For just one example of the...
Caleb Taylor
Oct 25, 20173 min read
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Academic Freedom at U of A, RIP?
A proposed policy change by the Board of Directors of the University of Arkansas system has some professors worried it could lead to less...
Caleb Taylor
Oct 24, 20172 min read
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Real Estate Suit Shows Need for Tort Reform
Is a real estate company responsible for the murder of agent Beverly Carter? That’s the question raised in a suit filed by Carter’s...
Marc Kilmer
Oct 24, 20174 min read
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Report: Tax Reform Would Raise Wages, GDP
President Donald Trump’s tax reform proposal would lead to economic growth and bigger paychecks, while being revenue neutral — according...
Caleb Taylor
Oct 23, 20172 min read
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Where’s Our Instrument Panel?
Arkansas policymakers are saddled with a revenue system that provides little or no feedback about how it’s working. This is like trying...
Marc Kilmer
Oct 21, 20174 min read
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POLL: Arkansans Prefer Using Existing Revenue For Highways
Arkansans favor using existing state revenue rather than raising taxes to increase funding for highways, according to a recent survey by...
Caleb Taylor
Oct 20, 20171 min read
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Another Good Value in Arkansas!
The title of this article is absolutely true, but also a bit of marketing, which, I feel as an academic, I must forthrightly disclose. ...
Robert Steinbuch
Oct 20, 20172 min read
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Sen. Cotton Introduces Individual Mandate Fix
Sen. Tom Cotton earlier this week introduced legislation that would repeal the individual mandate under Obamacare for many Americans....
Caleb Taylor
Oct 19, 20171 min read
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Highway Commission Considers Yielding On Tax Hike In 2018
Arkansas voters might not have to vote on whether to raise their taxes even higher in 2018 after all. The Arkansas State Highway...
Caleb Taylor
Oct 18, 20172 min read
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REPORT: Arkansas 39th In Nation For Business Tax Climate
Arkansas’s business tax climate ranks among the worst in the nation for yet another year, according to a new study by the Tax Foundation....
Caleb Taylor
Oct 17, 20171 min read
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Trump Deals Another Blow To O’Care
President Donald Trump dealt another blow to Obamacare last week by discontinuing cost-sharing subsidies to insurance companies. These...
Caleb Taylor
Oct 16, 20173 min read
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Poor and Middle-Income Arkansans Pay Most For O’Care Penalty
Most Arkansas households paying the Obamacare penalty earn less than $50,000 annually, according to new Internal Revenue Service data....
Caleb Taylor
Oct 13, 20172 min read
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Trump Improves Healthcare Choice Through EO
Despite past failures on Obamacare reform in Congress, President Donald Trump today outlined several ways he’d be easing the law’s...
Caleb Taylor
Oct 12, 20172 min read
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How Do You Solve A Problem Like Texarkana?
One exemption in Arkansas’s tax code is, in some circles, famous: the Texarkana exemption. The Texarkana exemption, established in 1977,...
Marc Kilmer
Oct 12, 20176 min read
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Arkansas FOIA Task Force Begins
Another new task force officially began today: the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Task Force met for the first time....
Caleb Taylor
Oct 11, 20172 min read
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AAI Unveils Friends of Freedom For 2017
Today at the Capitol, 26 state legislators received “Friends of Freedom” awards from the Advance Arkansas Institute (AAI). Many of these...
Caleb Taylor
Oct 10, 20172 min read
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Legislators Consider Future Changes To GIF
The state’s grant system for funding local projects is due for a change after Arkansas’s Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional last...
Caleb Taylor
Oct 9, 20172 min read
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EPA’s CPP Repeal To Give Arkansas Ratepayers Relief
The Trump Administration will soon begin the process of repealing the Obama-era Clean Power Plan (CPP) that would’ve led to large...
Caleb Taylor
Oct 6, 20172 min read
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GIF Declared Unconstitutional By Supreme Court
The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled today that the state’s General Improvement Fund (GIF) program is unconstitutional. The program was the...
Caleb Taylor
Oct 5, 20172 min read
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Fayetteville Coughs Up $500K For TV Series
The city of Fayetteville plans to pay an unnamed television production company $500,000 if the company’s series is filmed in that city....
Caleb Taylor
Oct 4, 20173 min read
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