John Brummett

Recent stories by John Brummett

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Giving away the advantage Sadly for them, Democrats in Washington copped headlines last week. They did it talking about reducing one unfathomably large dollar amount in a spending bill to another unfathomably large dollar amo... October 24, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Don't give up on schools Every good or arguable reason for Little Rock's historically progressive public school supporters to oppose a school debt millage extension--not a debt millage increase, but an extension of existing m... October 21, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Is IRS idea worth the fight? The Biden administration proposes to raise money to pay for its big "social infrastructure" bill in part by requiring banks to send the Internal Revenue Service annual inflow and outflow reports on al... October 20, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Trickeration on the way? Gov. Asa Hutchinson will come out for his regular covid briefing this afternoon and likely say the numbers are a little better but we all really need to get vaccinated. It's what he always says. The... October 19, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: One weird Wednesday Everything weird, woeful and wonderful about Arkansas politics and government took center stage Wednesday afternoon. As one conditioned by the years to think in terms of newspaper headlines, I conjur... October 17, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Democrats in disarray The smartest newspaper column I've read recently came from Ross Douthat, a contributor to The New York Times who gets called conservative though he seems thoughtful, sensible and pragmatic, and thus c... October 14, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: For just a moment, principle Both can be true, you know, that U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton on rare occasions shows glimpses of personal principle and that a new book's revelation of such an occasion reflects Cotton's cold political calcu... October 13, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: More craziness on tap Why in the world would Gov. Asa Hutchinson invite these legislators to turn right around and come back for a special session Oct. 25? Hasn't he--haven't we--suffered enough? That's not a rhetorical ... October 12, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Carved up like a turkey Because of one word--"acquired" rather than "passed"--Republican legislators were able to chortle last week about sticking it to Pulaski County three ways. We'll get to that pivotal single word later... October 10, 2021

OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Resist resentment From a bathroom at Arizona State University to the chambers of the Arkansas State Capitol, zealous partisan extremism makes our politics all about resentment rather than solution. U.S. Sen. Kyrsten S... October 7, 2021