Recent stories by John Brummett
Brummett online: Polarizing politics
At the senior expo last weekend, put on again this year by this newspaper and UAMS, a man in the audience of a few dozen asked the political panel what I feared would be an enraging and polarizing que...
September 19, 2018
JOHN BRUMMETT: Mow wonder
The texting thread of old tennis pals flashed up lamentations for Razorback football late Saturday afternoon.
A minor directional school in drab green trim had just tricked the Hogs into declining to ...
September 18, 2018
JOHN BRUMMETT: Why you gotta be so mean?
Three news conferences on health care, one after the other Wednesday, revealed Republican policies that are simply mean.
Take note of the phrase. It carefully assigns cruelty to "Republican policies,"...
September 16, 2018
JOHN BRUMMETT: The road to a decision
Local organizations led by the League of Women Voters staged the first of five mayor-candidate forums Monday night. Dozens of people filled the meeting room at the Dee Brown Public Library in southwes...
September 13, 2018
BRUMMETT ONLINE: Not insurmountable
The polling partners of Talk Business and Politics and Hendrix College unveiled this week a notable and perhaps influential poll of the 2nd District congressional race.
Its release mystified some Demo...
September 12, 2018
JOHN BRUMMETT: Feeding the narrative
The leaders of national mainstream media have gone off their rockers almost to the extent that Donald Trump exists permanently apart from his.
The New York Times is the greatest newspaper in the world...
September 11, 2018
JOHN BRUMMETT: On honest introspection
A dapper fellow with a baritone ambled to a hotel bar in Fayetteville and chose a stool three or four removed from mine. I nursed a red wine and reviewed notes for a presentation I would make in a few...
September 9, 2018
JOHN BRUMMETT: A wide-open race ... now
Our dreary state of politics cried out for something new. It was Warwick Sabin who tipped me a couple of years ago to freshness on the local political horizon.
We were discussing the woeful state of p...
September 6, 2018
BRUMMETT ONLINE: Who’s worth helping?
The article across the top of the front page reported that state Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson had been federally indicted on allegations of using campaign donations for personal luxury items and falsifying ...
September 5, 2018
JOHN BRUMMETT: Rudimentary Rudy
We probably should have accepted the plain evidence in 2008 that Rudy Giuliani, despite his seemingly heroic mayoral performance after 9/11, was much less than met the eye.
His campaign that year for ...
September 4, 2018