John Brummett
Columnist
Brummett’s career in news began when he was in high school as a part-time reporter for the Arkansas Democrat. He moved to the Arkansas Gazette in 1977. He wrote a political column for the Gazette from 1986 to 1990. He was an editor for Arkansas Times from 1990 to 1992. In 1994, his book, High Wire: From the Back Roads to the Beltway, the Education of Bill Clinton, was published by Hyperion of New York City. He became a columnist with the Democrat-Gazette in 1994. In 2000, he signed a deal with Donrey Media Group, now known as Stephens Media, and wrote for them for 11 years. He rejoined Arkansas Democrat-Gazette as a columnist on Oct. 24, 2011.
You can read his blog at: http://brummett.arkansasonline.com/
Recent Stories by John Brummett
Act and execution
posted: 06/20/2013 4:31 a.m. Discuss
Is simple burglary a violent or at least serious crime warranting imprisonment? Or is it usually a mere facilitating step in the real issue—a drug habit?
COMMENTARY: An insurgency in the making
posted: 06/19/2013 5 a.m. Comments 15
Monday night I went to Conway, where I started writing about politics nearly 40 years ago, to speak at a fundraising gathering for the Faulkner County Democratic Party.
We all deserve better
posted: 06/18/2013 3:45 a.m. Comments 4
A murdered body in the middle of a city street is a horrible, horrible thing. But I can’t quite retrieve an adequate word for murder in the street that is alleged to have been committed by a multiple felon and repeat parole violator who clearly ought to have been back in prison.
Press our luck? Let’s not
posted: 06/16/2013 2:59 a.m. Comment 1
You must keep reminding yourself that, despite logic and practicality and wisdom on that one big issue, the Republican champions of the private option on Medicaid expansion are hard-right conservatives.
Our Boy Mike speaks up
posted: 06/13/2013 5:04 a.m. Comments 18
Mike Huckabee has been doing a little extra public pronouncing lately, which means there is verbal detritus in the atmosphere that we probably ought to try to clear out.
COMMENTARY: Reform as easy as pie
posted: 06/12/2013 3:37 a.m. Discuss
In the olden days when I was a young reporter on the state Capitol beat, the Board of Finance would meet for a few minutes occasionally and ratify a simple recommendation.
Might be stuck with him
posted: 06/11/2013 3:27 a.m. Comments 3
From time to time, someone says Mark Pryor’s situation is like Blanche Lincoln’s. If that’s so, then Pryor ought to go ahead and start shilling now for polluters.
Clearing the hurdles
posted: 06/09/2013 2:03 a.m. Discuss
Love it or hate it—and there are dozens of you who love it—you must understand that the Affordable Care Act presents a monumental challenge for implementation.
Cotton nitpickin’
posted: 06/06/2013 2:51 a.m. Comments 7
Tom Cotton, the young Harvard-educated lawyer and Army veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, has been called an extremist in this space on a few occasions.
COMMENTARY: A broken record
posted: 06/05/2013 3:33 a.m. Comments 2
Surely one of the more ironic developments in Washington last week was Attorney General Eric Holder’s meeting secretly with news people to explain why he’d tried to find out who’d been giving them information secretly.
