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: On civility and the media It's been a convulsive few days in Arkansas in matters of media and civility, or incivility. Let's run through it.First I appear in a just-out podcast with a common-ground advocacy group calle... September 28, 2023

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Asa still fighting despite odds Asa Hutchinson hasn't lost the sense of humor I never really knew he had.He always seemed to squint when I quipped, as if he didn't get it or was taken aback. Conceivably that had to do with t... September 27, 2023

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: An instructive poll The Washington Post came out Sunday with a headline essentially saying it didn't believe its own poll that was conducted in partnership with ABC."Outlier," the subhead suggested.Arguing ... September 26, 2023

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