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John BrummettArkansas Online |
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...
The issue of whether we'll continue to get Public Broadcasting Service programming in Arkansas after the imminent end of this month, which many of you...
Reporters' questions at news conferences have irked me all my newspaper life.
The front-page article in this newspaper Tuesday on the investigation into North Little Rock Mayor Terry Hartwick's interaction with North Little Rock...
Democrat-Gazette online
What the Virginia Supreme Court essentially said last week is that Democrats in Virginia got in too big a hurry to show they could play unfair,...
Gov. Sarah Sanders got the Legislature to pass a bill last week to reduce the state's top income-tax rate from 3.9 percent to 3.7 percent. That will...
Supporters of saving PBS programming on state public television in Arkansas should beware.
Supporters of saving PBS programming on state public television in Arkansas should beware.
Democrat-Gazette online
The school voucher people are gearing up for what surely would be a well-funded campaign against the proposed state constitutional amendment that...
I told my state senator, Clarke Tucker, that his getting 104 votes out of a body of 135 legislators dominated by extreme-right Republicans, and doing...
This is not a very important column. But it's fun for me and it might be for you.
This is not a very important column. But it's fun for me and it might be for you.
Democrat-Gazette online
It could be that within a week or so the state Legislature will pass a bill authorizing Gov. Sarah Sanders, at the behest of sponsoring state Sen....
Three matters of political and governmental interest commanded federal or state attention last week. They invite review and commentary. Let's use the...
A massive poll for NBC taken over the first couple of weeks of the month showed Donald Trump's approval rating at an all-time low. But other...
The fact that Virginia was voting at all Tuesday stood as testament to the alarming decline of healthy function in American politics.
Democrat-Gazette online
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...
It's an uncommonly personal budget proposal by a single state legislator that affects a lone executive branch employee.
On Monday, preachers in Arkansas, including even the Republichristians and the Southern MAGAbaptists, were publicly expressing deep disapproval of...
On Monday, preachers in Arkansas, including even the Republichristians and the Southern MAGAbaptists, were publicly expressing deep disapproval of...
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...
The big Franklin County prison seems dead, and I probably should take out "seems."
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...
At least we know now that Arkansas is pure.
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,...
Democrat-Gazette online
My compliments to the reporter and editor who managed to make reasonably clear the article the other day relating that everybody is suing everybody...
Donald Trump had some of his favorite preachers--meaning preachers who praise him--over to the White House on Wednesday, appropriately April Fool's...
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,...
Gov. Sarah Sanders' new four-member majority on the seven-member state Board of Corrections voted Monday to concede the prison system to her.
Democrat-Gazette online
The state Democratic Party announced Thursday morning that Kamala Harris would speak at its Shackelford Fisher Dinner in late April. The dinner was...
Hallie Shoffner, the Democratic candidate against U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, does sassy and effective campaign videos showing her talking directly into the...
A guest piece in the opinion section recently of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette railed disingenuously against a percolating public initiative for a...
Last week, the state Senate took votes on confirmation of interim gubernatorial appointments. Close legislative watchers saw one roll call as a sign...
Democrat-Gazette online
"Meet the Press" was a Sunday morning downer. There was great substance, all dreadful.
It's the law, and I'm all for obeying that. But let's not lose sight of the fear factor.
U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks of Fayetteville is the man you want whenever these legislators of ours try to pull some unconstitutional stunt...
U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks of Fayetteville is the man you want whenever these legislators of ours try to pull some unconstitutional stunt...
Democrat-Gazette online
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...
On Wednesday afternoon, the governor of the state issued an official proclamation of the state while standing in the official Governor's Mansion of...
I like it when true conservative Bradley Gitz writes the truth about the personal disgrace that is Donald Trump, standing up for real conservatism...
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