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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.
Caleb Taylor
Sep 27, 20172 min read
Former Gov. Beebe Reappears To Save O’Care
Former Gov. Mike Beebe reappeared earlier this week in an attempt to save Medicaid expansion in Arkansas — which was implemented through...
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Caleb Taylor
Mar 6, 20151 min read
Pryor, Beebe: It’s Cash-Out Time!
It’s amazing how a person’s views on lobbying can change over the years. From the Washington Examiner: Here’s an oldie from October...
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Caleb Taylor
Jan 16, 20151 min read
New Elected Officials Make Staff Changes! News at 10!
Our friends over at the Arkansas Times are shocked — shocked! — that newly sworn-in Attorney General Leslie Rutledge is making staff...
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Marc Kilmer
Dec 15, 20142 min read
About That Special Treatment for Kyle Beebe
On December 5, Governor Mike Beebe announced that he planned to pardon his son, Kyle Beebe, along with 11 other people. The Parole Board...
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Caleb Taylor
Dec 4, 20142 min read
Arkansas Still Not Ranked 5th in Education, Gov. Beebe!
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Outgoing Gov. Mike Beebe recently has been on a kind of tour in which he discusses...
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Marc Kilmer
Nov 25, 20144 min read
Kyle Beebe’s Special Privilege
You may have heard that Kyle Beebe is getting a pardon from the governor. No one would pay much attention to this except for one thing:...
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Caleb Taylor
Oct 13, 20142 min read
GAO’s “Cost Concerns” on PO, Part II
We wrote last month about a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report: it raised some red flags about the costs to taxpayers...
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Caleb Taylor
Oct 2, 20142 min read
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...
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Caleb Taylor
Sep 11, 20142 min read
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 —...
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Caleb Taylor
Sep 9, 20144 min read
PO “Raises Cost Concerns” For Feds
One of the phrases you’ll often hear from pro-private option legislators is that the private option “isn’t Medicaid expansion.” Well, it...
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Caleb Taylor
Jul 25, 20143 min read
Mica Strother, the Face of the Favor Factory
You might remember previous news reports about one of Governor Mike Beebe’s staffers, Mica Strother. Strother has a unique business...
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Nic Horton
Jul 22, 20142 min read
The Real Beebe Jobs Record
If you watch or read the news in Arkansas, you probably hear a lot about outgoing Gov. Mike Beebe’s record of “job creation.” One...
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Nic Horton
Jul 15, 20142 min read
Breaking: Beebe Admin 'Increasingly Concerned' That Obamacare Critics Don't Like Obam
A new report at Forbes this morning reveals some troubling facts about how Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe’s staff is spending its time. In...
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Nic Horton
Jul 7, 20142 min read
White House: States Rejecting Obamacare Expansion Save Taxpayers $88 Billion
A new report released by the Obama White House last week reveals the extraordinary taxpayer savings created by the states that are...
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Nic Horton
Jun 25, 20145 min read
Which Candidate For U.S. Senate Wants To Kill The Death Tax The Most?
Of all the taxes that government imposes, perhaps none is more offensive than the federal Estate Tax, commonly referred to as the “Death...
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Nic Horton
Apr 9, 20143 min read
"There Is A Lot Wrong” With This Forbes Article, But Legislators Are Too Busy To Explain
Yesterday, Forbes published an insightful piece about the Arkansas Obamacare “private” option. The bottom line for Arkansas taxpayers:...
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Nic Horton
Feb 25, 20142 min read
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...
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Daniel Greenberg
Feb 24, 20144 min read
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...
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Nic Horton
Feb 24, 20142 min read
Three Stories You Need To Read Today
Happy Monday. With another vote on Obamacare “private” option funding as scheduled for tomorrow in the Arkansas House, we’ve compiled a...
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Nic Horton
Feb 21, 20143 min read
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...
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Daniel Greenberg
Feb 14, 20145 min read
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...
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Nic Horton
Feb 10, 20143 min read
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...
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Nic Horton
Feb 7, 20144 min read
Should Arkansas Continue A Ridiculously Expensive Program To ‘Save’ Businesses From A Mandate That D
Clint Eastwood talking to the employer mandate. In his radio address last week, Governor Mike Beebe said, Last year, the Legislature...
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Nic Horton
Feb 1, 20143 min read
Will Ending The ‘Private’ Option Trigger The Zombie Apocalypse?
I’ve written about the (purely coincidental, I’m sure) scare tactics coming from all fronts of the Beebe administration about the dire...
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