John Brummett

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

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Sarah risks rural distrust Arkansas politics has always been about rural working-class distrust and resistance of government that seemed tone-deaf and full of itself.For a small highway program in 1979, boy-wonder governor Bill... September 24, 2023

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Take the extra second mile It's partly about whether you instinctively want to throw people off Medicaid because you think they ought to get up and go to work. I get that.But some people instinctively want to provide poor p... September 21, 2023

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Going the way of the dodo The moderate movement in America, an oxymoronic if not laughable phrase, reached its height in a single photograph taken in the early afternoon of June 24, 2021.President Biden came out from the West ... September 20, 2023

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Best cut-and-paste ever Maybe you'd simply call it "An Amendment to the State Constitution to Guarantee Freedom of Information."After that it would be a cut-and-paste job.First you would paste back into the sta... September 19, 2023

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Tucker and the scarlet ‘Y’ What a week it was. First Arkansas Republicans turned against their vaunted leader, Gov. Sarah Sanders. Then some of the several still-existent Democrats took to social media to blast their best excus... September 17, 2023

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Commoners prevail, sort of It's huge for royalty to get rebuffed by a legislative body of commoners. And make no mistake. Queen Sarah lost.But she will now get to fly secretly on taxpayer aircraft. It is a consolation outra... September 14, 2023

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: No way to treat the queen The queen got the non-royal treatment.The "Traveling Trumpettes," as Rex Nelson has dubbed Gov. Sarah Sanders and her staff, had a bad Monday.They were given a day's comeuppance, at leas... September 13, 2023

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: The queen demands An editorial in this newspaper Sunday considered disapprovingly Gov. Sarah Sanders' announcement of her intended evisceration of the state's Freedom of Information Act.It wondered whether she ... September 12, 2023

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Age before duty in D.C. We know old age isn't for sissies, but the issue now raging is whether it's suitable for political office and public service.Senior citizenry at the top has us all gummed up at the moment.Incu... September 10, 2023

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: The queen offended It looks like you're going to get your top state income-tax rate dropped a tad next week. You might thank the Blue Hog blogger and his Blue Hog Report.You were going to get the top-rate income-tax... September 7, 2023