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Advice from the past on point: It’s still about the prices, stupid

Advice from the past on point: It’s still about the prices, stupid

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Gay White’s passion, insight in PBS fight a revelation

Gay White’s passion, insight in PBS fight a revelation

Famed public television documentarian Ken Burns was in northwest Arkansas late last week, and the main thing I got from a news article about his visit...

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Senator makes a decent proposal on former prisons boss

Senator makes a decent proposal on former prisons boss

It's an uncommonly personal budget proposal by a single state legislator that affects a lone executive branch employee.

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Opinion: Trump specter lingers as 2028 Democrats consider presidency

Opinion: Trump specter lingers as 2028 Democrats consider presidency

On Monday, preachers in Arkansas, including even the Republichristians and the Southern MAGAbaptists, were publicly expressing deep disapproval of...

18.04.2026 3

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Trump specter lingers as 2028 Democrats consider presidency

Trump specter lingers as 2028 Democrats consider presidency

On Monday, preachers in Arkansas, including even the Republichristians and the Southern MAGAbaptists, were publicly expressing deep disapproval of...

16.04.2026 20

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Farewell to Mike Dougherty: Old friends and the way we were

Farewell to Mike Dougherty: Old friends and the way we were

I met Mike Dougherty in the fall of 1969 in a giant study hall that filled the cafeteria at the now-destroyed McClellan High School in...

15.04.2026 20

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Franklin County prison reversal reveals chink in Sarah’s armor

Franklin County prison reversal reveals chink in Sarah’s armor

The big Franklin County prison seems dead, and I probably should take out "seems."

14.04.2026 10

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Love, light … and Sarah

Love, light … and Sarah

Gov. Sarah Sanders’ State of the State Address last week to the Legislature was a run-of-the-mill presentation of platitudes, as those kinds of...

12.04.2026 10

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Opinion: Arkansas' election integrity was never in doubt

Opinion: Arkansas' election integrity was never in doubt

At least we know now that Arkansas is pure.

11.04.2026 5

El Dorado News Times

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It’s all about the mad man’s ego this time around

I keep thinking about the way the first Trump White House dealt with the challenge of a president who was seemingly mad, by which I don't mean angry,...

09.04.2026 10

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Arkansas’ election integrity was never in doubt, but needs must

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08.04.2026 10

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The curious case of Corrections and the Arkansas Constitution

My compliments to the reporter and editor who managed to make reasonably clear the article the other day relating that everybody is suing everybody...

07.04.2026 10

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Trump yuks it up for Jesus in profane Holy Week rant

Donald Trump had some of his favorite preachers--meaning preachers who praise him--over to the White House on Wednesday, appropriately April Fool's...

05.04.2026 10

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Opinion: Rascals in both parties in full self-preservation mode

If you haven't been in a conversation lately with people agreeing that the whole cast of Washington politicians ought to be run out of office,...

04.04.2026 10

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Puppeteer Sarah pulls strings for Arkansas’ prisons

Gov. Sarah Sanders' new four-member majority on the seven-member state Board of Corrections voted Monday to concede the prison system to her.

02.04.2026 10

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Rascals in both parties in full self-preservation mode

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01.04.2026 10

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Arkansas Dems threw Shoffner under the bus, but she’s resilient

The state Democratic Party announced Thursday morning that Kamala Harris would speak at its Shackelford Fisher Dinner in late April. The dinner was...

31.03.2026 10

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Shoffner deserves better than Democrats can offer

Hallie Shoffner, the Democratic candidate against U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, does sassy and effective campaign videos showing her talking directly into the...

29.03.2026 10

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Opinion: Public money in private schools -- why not the same standards?

A guest piece in the opinion section recently of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette railed disingenuously against a percolating public initiative for a...

28.03.2026 10

El Dorado News Times

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With fiscal session looming, Arkansas Senate schisms appear

Last week, the state Senate took votes on confirmation of interim gubernatorial appointments. Close legislative watchers saw one roll call as a sign...

26.03.2026 20

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Public money in private schools: Why not the same standards?

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Political downers and dust-ups in U.S., Arkansas news

"Meet the Press" was a Sunday morning downer. There was great substance, all dreadful.

24.03.2026 10

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Sullivan employs fear factor in smug power play

It's the law, and I'm all for obeying that. But let's not lose sight of the fear factor.

22.03.2026 20

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Opinion: In Arkansas' Decalogue ruling, simple reason and common sense

U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks of Fayetteville is the man you want whenever these legislators of ours try to pull some unconstitutional stunt...

21.03.2026 10

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In Arkansas’ Decalogue ruling, simple reason and common sense

U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks of Fayetteville is the man you want whenever these legislators of ours try to pull some unconstitutional stunt...

19.03.2026 20

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Flipping the flippable good strategy … when flippable districts abound

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18.03.2026 20

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Arkansas backtracks, saves Big Bird … for now

Even as they backtracked, state officials clung to the fiction that they face a fiscal cliff by being like every other state and staying in the Public...

17.03.2026 20

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Arkansas’ Turning Point USA proclamation problematic

On Wednesday afternoon, the governor of the state issued an official proclamation of the state while standing in the official Governor's Mansion of...

15.03.2026 20

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Opinion: Incremental politics proof that more than one thing can be right at once

I like it when true conservative Bradley Gitz writes the truth about the personal disgrace that is Donald Trump, standing up for real conservatism...

14.03.2026 20

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In Arkansas runoff, a battle between extremists

We don't have much of a two-party system in Arkansas. We've seldom really had one. We went from only nominally Democratic before Barack Obama to...

12.03.2026 20

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Incremental politics proof that more than one thing can be right at once

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11.03.2026 20

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The fall of Kristi Noem

In a presidential administration known for megalomania and testosterone, Kristi Noem exceeded the limit. Her heavily cosmeticized Annie Oakley act was...

10.03.2026 20

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Bubba holds forth on Sarah’s losses in Arkansas primaries

"If you can't beat the governor in your own district, you shouldn't even be down here."--state Sen. Bryan King, who could.

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Column: The problem with making war without a plan

07.03.2026 20

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Dems find hope in primaries; Sarah rebuffed in intra-party fights

Meantime, in Arkansas, there was primary voting as well.

05.03.2026 20

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OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Conventional wisdom arrows fired aloft in time of war

With the nation at war, and amid internal Republican hostility in today's Arkansas primaries--not to mention with March Madness looming--only arrows...

04.03.2026 10

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The problem with making war without a plan

Democrat-Gazette online

04.03.2026 10

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Column: Trump's SOTU theatrics did their job -- Make Dems look bad

01.03.2026 20

El Dorado News Times

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Arkansas Republicans eating their own in primaries

12.02.2026 10

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The Super Bowl and the great American culture war

11.02.2026 10

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Pulaski County prosecutor race full of scandal on both sides

10.02.2026 10

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‘Melania’ all about the branding … and high heels

08.02.2026 10

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Column: Life in Arkansas, the Trumpiest outpost of them all

08.02.2026 10

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OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Life in Arkansas, the Trumpiest outpost of them all

05.02.2026 10

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Pulaski County prosecutor race gathering interest, funds

04.02.2026 10

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As long as they win, UA football has the go-ahead to fuel hopes

03.02.2026 10

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Self-unaware hypocrisy in critic no excuse for the criticized

01.02.2026 10

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Column: Winter storms and the idiocy of youth

01.02.2026 10

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OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Winter storms and the idiocy of youth

29.01.2026 10

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Yoga contortion over war

28.01.2026 10

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