Recent stories by John Brummett
JOHN BRUMMETT: Comfort or connection?
I was privileged to engage in phone conversations Monday and Tuesday with--in order of their returned calls--Frank Scott, Warwick Sabin and Baker Kurrus.
I can reiterate that which is well-established...
November 15, 2018
BRUMMETT ONLINE: Bleepin’ ’bout my generation
Suddenly I beheld either a remarkable cultural event or a major personal teachable moment, or both.
Late on election night, I focused on the laptop screen as I knocked out an online column on the even...
November 14, 2018
JOHN BRUMMETT: Votes that don't matter
As is always the case anymore, and not that it makes a darn, Democrats got millions more votes nationally than Republicans last Tuesday.
We're a mere 18 years into a millennium that's already given us...
November 13, 2018
JOHN BRUMMETT: Reapportionment tango
Now that Pulaski County has been neutered--rendered an alien blue peninsula in a deep red sea--Pulaskians' concerns should shift to whether full evisceration is next.
Neutering is serious, but eviscer...
November 11, 2018
JOHN BRUMMETT: Solidifying his case
The runoff for mayor of Little Rock could be at least as interesting as the first go-round, which proved nigh unto fascinating.
Round One was complicated. Strong plurality winner Frank Scott got 37 pe...
November 8, 2018
BRUMMETT ONLINE: A tale of two voters
One political truth evident locally Tuesday night was that there are two distinct kinds of voters in Little Rock and Pulaski County.
There are those who vote early and those who vote on election day.
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November 7, 2018
JOHN BRUMMETT: Much ado over not much
Worthy candidates seldom have labored so intensely for political powers not expressly existing.
The Little Rock mayor's race ends today, subject to a runoff if no one gets 40 percent. It closes with w...
November 6, 2018
JOHN BRUMMETT: Meanness run amok
All signs point to resounding victory for cynical Trumpism in Arkansas on Tuesday. We appear ripe for a meanness mandate in the Natural State.
Arkansas likely will advance its alliance with the only a...
November 4, 2018
JOHN BRUMMETT: As the race winds down
It was supposed to be the state's showcase race. Clarke Tucker supporters insist it still is, notwithstanding obituaries written by anachronistic polling addicts.
There is the recent poll from Hendrix...
November 1, 2018
BRUMMETT ONLINE: Big time, in political terms
When the Los Angeles Dodgers’ batter swung and missed, finalizing Boston’s victory in the World Series, I dispatched a congratulatory text to a friend who, from every spring to fall, night after night...
October 31, 2018