John Brummett

Recent stories by John Brummett

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Hitch up the mules The Marion School District ventured first into the Delta- variant frontier and is now sending back what would be valuable dispatches if heeded. Marion is showing other school districts how it's likel... August 5, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Non-scientific arguments We received a vivid preview Monday of legislative resistance to repealing the ban on mask mandates and letting local schools decide. We heard that conservatives care only about protecting the childre... August 4, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Paving a sustainable path Gov. Asa Hutchinson and state Sen. Jonathan Dismang of Beebe once worried me as right-wing menaces. It turned out I worried too much--then, if not now. Those judgments of Hutchinson and Dismang refl... August 3, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Between rock and ... rock The American voters could not have been clearer in 2020. They gave 7.1 million more votes to Joe Biden than Donald Trump while they were trimming Nancy Pelosi's Democratic majority in the House of Re... August 1, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Poisoning the well I've heard of going down swinging, or even kicking and screaming, but Leslie Rutledge is going down sabotaging. The salty state attorney general had been confident she could dispose of Lt. Gov. Tim G... July 29, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: The grace to stand Gov. Asa Hutchinson and the state's epidemiologist got shouted at Monday at a covid town-hall meeting in Mountain Home. The rudeness came from strong-lunged adherents of a school of paranoia that our... July 28, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: All praise to Trump! Sarah Huckabee Sanders explained to Fox News the other day that more people would get vaccinated against covid if the Democrats would kneel before her cult leader. In Sarah's world, everything is abo... July 27, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Gasket-blowing in progress Separate federal judges in Little Rock enjoined last week what until recently were the two very worst pieces of legislation enacted by the Legislature this year. It's become necessary now to call tho... July 25, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Friday night lights dim Are you ready for some football? So, get vaccinated, then. If that form of encouragement won't work, then nothing short of Donald Trump touring the state with a vaccine van, giving autographs for sho... July 22, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Asa Biden needed As Arkansas draws national attention as a backwater where a virus thrives among irresponsibly unvaccinated people, the state needs a leader falling somewhere between Asa Hutchinson and Joe Biden. Ala... July 21, 2021