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John BrummettArkansas 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...
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,...
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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.
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