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Jeremy Hutchinson went to federal prison in 2023 on an eight-year sentence for blatant political corruption, and should have.
Despite recent indications of erosion in the congressional Republican obeisance to President Donald Trump, we cannot yet say for sure that the...
Please allow me the honor and pleasure of telling you about Paul Berry, newly and sadly the late.
It was a highlight of the summer. A woman at the gas station told me that Rex Nelson and I were "puredee Arkansas." She said it like it was a good...
Despite recent indications of erosion in the congressional Republican obeisance to President Donald Trump, we cannot yet say for sure that the...
The president of the United States appeared Thursday night on the few national television networks that deigned to endure him in his spiraling state...
A guest column in this paper the other day under the byline of assorted serious Arkansas people--including a former state Supreme Court justice and a...
Today let us ponder something that doesn't matter. I will write on Gov. Sarah Sanders' announcement of a finding that Arkansas has the most gloriously...
A guest column in this paper the other day under the byline of assorted serious Arkansas people--including a former state Supreme Court justice and a...
It was with a heavy heart that, on May 24, I proclaimed after due deliberation that my president was a dictator--outright, no longer merely the...
There were the usual weekend outrages with Donald Trump. They were hardly worthy of note. But one of them was local this time, so let's look at that.
Republicans grow more deeply concerned about a blue wave in November as Democrats struggle to ride that wave. One of their leading surfers just wiped...
Politicians are always running their last race, particularly if it was a loss. They want to undo everything that worked against them last time. That,...
Republicans grow more deeply concerned about a blue wave in November as Democrats struggle to ride that wave. One of their leading surfers just wiped...
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Only one of the three progressive ballot-issue campaigns submitted petitions by the deadline Friday bearing a number of signatures that, if validated,...
They had a governor's debate Friday at the Arkansas Press Association convention in Eureka Springs. I didn't attend. The following critique...
This is not about the book, which I have stopped reading because I pretty much knew all that already.
You might have heard a common refrain about U.S. Rep. French Hill. It's that he knows President Donald Trump is reckless and destructive but believes...
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There was a brief but scintillating social media exchange during covid-beset 2020 between a cornpone guy from Arkansas, Mike Huckabee, and a young...
In times of uncommon recklessness in presidential leadership with narrow congressional division in a major election year--by which I mean enduring a...
Things just get differenter and differenter, don't they? People call it growth. They also call it life. They also say get over it.
Are you weary of reading about this fellow Carlton Wing and his messing around with PBS programming on Arkansas educational television even as...
Democrat-Gazette online
Let's talk about what your state newspaper did and what your governor did, in that order, meaning from the great deed of the newspaper down to the...
Donald Trump was done with his failed war on Iran and ready to move oil through the Strait of Hormuz.
Editor's note: This award-winning column was first published on Father's Day 2010. It hasn't been re-run in a few years.
Carlton, I said to my good buddy Mr. Wing, it seems to me from that article on the front page Monday that you are running Arkansas public television...
Democrat-Gazette online
I used artificial intelligence for this column. I think it's all right this one time.
I declared last week the existence of a Donald Trump dictatorship because the Republicans in Congress wouldn't stand up to him.
She was conducting a town hall for her choir. The questions largely were like-minded, friendly, and outright set-ups. That doesn't mean she didn't...
Democrat-Gazette online
Current American politics tends to think of party before country, emphasizing the aims of the tribe over the qualities of the individual.
Ernie Dumas, a venerated Arkansas political journalist, has an opinion essay and historical essay -- that's the same piece -- in the latest...
PBS programming will remain on the air of Arkansas public television. That's on the authority of a voice vote Thursday of the network's governing...
So, on Monday morning, they had a "60 Minutes" staff meeting with bagels for the newly hired leader--a technology columnist and documentary filmmaker...
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It's time to end the American dictatorship the direct and correct way. There are other ways, but they entail processes and take time. They must await...
The Texas Republican runoff for the U.S. Senate was won handily Tuesday by the Trump-endorsed and ethically challenged MAGA firebrand.
So now Carlton Wing is agreeable to Arkansas TV staying with PBS programming and says he has a good if not certain feeling about Thursday's meeting of...
The Texas Republican runoff for the U.S. Senate was won handily Tuesday by the Trump-endorsed and ethically challenged MAGA firebrand.
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I placed my traditional holiday-week call to Bubba McCoy for the extra column required for taking Monday off. He answered by saying he knew what was...
A Republican state legislator has asked Gov. Sarah Sanders to call a special session--which we just had, with that session coming immediately after...
Donald Trump became a de facto dictator last week, and, of course, not a benevolent one.
I am happy to be able to write that our governor is far better on the issue of PBS than Oklahoma's, and that Arkansas is no longer the lone pioneer or...
Democrat-Gazette online
A Republican state legislator has asked Gov. Sarah Sanders to call a special session—which we just had, with that session coming immediately after...
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