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
Everyone to their corners
posted: 05/24/2012 3:29 a.m. Comments 7
Ididn’t think the biggest story of the night was that more than 60,000 people, constituting 42 percent, voted against President Barack Obama in the Democratic primary. I was surprised and relieved it wasn’t more.
COMMENTARY: At least they’re consistent
posted: 05/23/2012 5 a.m. Comment 1
John Brummett is a regular columnist for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Email him at jbrummett@arkansasonline.com. Read his blog at brummett.arkansasonline.com.
The GOP metamorphosis
posted: 05/22/2012 2:09 a.m. Comment 1
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The irony abounds
posted: 05/20/2012 3:10 a.m. Comments 5
It does not matter in the grand scheme how many votes country-talking lawyer John Wolfe of Chattanooga gets as the only alternative to President Barack Obama in our state’s Democratic presidential primary Tuesday.
Mike in the middle
posted: 05/17/2012 4:32 a.m. Comments 3
U. S. Rep. Mike Ross returned my call Tuesday as he was on his way back to Washington from a day’s rural getaway.
COMMENTARY: Let’s get ready to rumble
posted: 05/16/2012 5 a.m. Comments 2
The rest of you can go all right-wing if you want. And you certainly seem to want. Those of us living in the liberal bastions of central Little Rock will occupy ourselves, thank you, with our own little isolated left-wing battle royal.
Reform for a new generation
posted: 05/15/2012 3:44 a.m. Comments 5
Compelling narratives made Arkansas politics special in the late 1940s and early 1950s and again from the mid-1960 s into the 1970s.
Let’s be civil now
posted: 05/13/2012 3:36 a.m. Comments 24
Roby Brock of Talk Business—the television show, the magazine, the website and the radio program—happened to be putting his automated pollster into action Thursday night.
More proof in the pudding
posted: 05/10/2012 4:51 a.m. Comments 21
What a night it was Tuesday in primaries in Indiana, North Carolina and West Virginia. Score three for the ridiculous and zero for the sublime.
COMMENTARY: Behave better, judge less
posted: 05/09/2012 5 a.m. Comments 17
It’s not much money. At issue are an $80,000-a-year job and a few hundred dollars in disputed or unpaid taxes.
