ROBERT STEINBUCH: Learning from history
State senator from Craighead County Dan Sullivan recently penned in the Jonesboro Sun his reaction to viewing the unfiltered video of the horrific acts of mons…
State senator from Craighead County Dan Sullivan recently penned in the Jonesboro Sun his reaction to viewing the unfiltered video of the horrific acts of mons…
Several months ago, I began a series of columns exposing the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville's King Fahd Middle Eastern Studies Center's myopic focus on…
It's been a bad couple of weeks for Arkansans' right to self-defense. Last week, I lost a gun-rights case in the Arkansas Supreme by a vote of 4 to 3.
The situation comedy "Barney Miller" premiered in 1975, detailing activities occurring almost exclusively in a New York City detective squad room in a fictiona…
As articulated previously, this column exposes the exploits of self-aggrandizing (or is it self-important?) public officials failing in their obligation to ser…
Recall my previous reporting about the city of Hoxie's refusal to comply with the Freedom of Information Act. I discussed how, when presented with a FOIA reque…
T his month, the board of commissioners for Central Arkansas Water (CAW)--our water utility--awarded a 4-percent pay increase to Tad Bohannon, CAW's chief exec…
Bryan Caplan, an economics professor at George Mason University, recently wrote about his school's plan to adopt a "Just Societies" course requirement, which h…
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders recently appointed conservative former state senator and founder of the National Association of Christian Lawmakers Jason Rapert to…
Today I continue my series investigating the taxpayer-funded fiasco at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville's Saudi-autocrat-denominated Middle Eastern s…
In the delicate architecture of democracy, transparency stands as the singular structure safeguarding the covenant between the governed and those in authority.…
Arkansans from throughout the state and of all political persuasions--including two of my esteemed colleagues from this paper, one conservative and one liberal…
Last week, this fine paper again reported on important happenings at the taxpayer-funded school at which I work--the University of Arkansas Little Rock Bowen S…
You might recall my coverage last year of Central Arkansas Water (CAW) describing how CEO Tad Bohannon--with a salary of $246,000 per year, plus a car allowanc…
As I previously reported, the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville's Saudi-branded indoctrination program listed on its course-offerings webpage 35 classes part…
My series on the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville's King Fahd Middle East center began as a critique of the anti-academic plan to have two anti-Israel Fa…
I've previously written that higher-education administrators shouldn't hijack the imprimaturs of the universities they serve in communicating their personal op…
Mohja Kahf, a professor in the King Fahd Middle Eastern Studies Center at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, recently published a response to my previ…
As you Dear Readers know, I've been covering the citizen-driven efforts of the populist group on which I serve, Arkansas Citizens for Transparency (ACT), seeki…
With assurances that I will resume my series on government transparency, today's column responds to the requests I've received to continue my coverage of too-o…
As I've been discussing in this ongoing series on the Freedom of Information Act, after repeated efforts to weaken the FOIA in the Legislature, concerned Arkan…
Today's column continues my extended series on the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act with the happy story of how a Little Rock federal court issued a ruling …
After repeated efforts to weaken the Freedom of Information Act by specific legislators decrying, by their own admission, the "inefficiency" of recognizing cit…
Now that I criticized Attorney General Tim Griffin's stacked Freedom of Information Act "working group" and his abuse of authority in evaluating proposed const…
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Arkansas state Senate President Bart Hester endured leftist lambasting last week for allegedly "beating the war drums for Israe…
In 1999, Gov. Mike Huckabee created the Electronic Records Study Commission to evaluate the Freedom of Information Act in light of technology advances.
The Supreme Court recently held affirmative action--the keystone of the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) infrastructure--unconstitutional. Justice Clarenc…
As "Deborah," a dual American-Israeli citizen born and raised in Arkansas, leaves to defend the Jewish homeland, I recall the 2005 statement by then-United Sta…
Recall my recent reporting about Hoxie city attorney Nancy Hall not providing a police officer's personnel file and body-camera video (one day's worth) to a lo…
I've previously written here about leftists' abuse of language through 1. expurgating elements of expression in pursuit of protecting precious petunias from pe…
During the recent special session in the Legislature, our elected representatives debated adding additional exemptions into our Freedom of Information Act. Leg…
In simplified terms, there are four levels of courts in the Arkansas judicial system:
Arkansas State University at Mountain Home employee Melissa Klinger is active in her community and conservative. She opposed proposals to increase real-estate …
Proponents of the bill to castrate Arkansas' Freedom of Information Act make several incorrect claims.
The latest chapter in the saga of botched operations at the public monopoly Central Arkansas Water (CAW) involves its CEO Tad Bohannon giving away $119,000 of …
I unmask the misdeeds of our leaders because they not only work for us, they too readily waste our hard-earned money. This primary journalistic function of exp…
In May, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences held a separate graduation for under-represented and minority students. This constant division of socie…
The Pulaski County Regional Solid Waste Management District--a government agency--paid nearly $1 million for advertising and media services along with "waste-t…
Up until the recent passing of an Arkansas Supreme Court justice, a majority of the court was liberal. This results from having non-partisan judicial elections…
Everywhere we turn, we're over-taxed. Take Little Rock. Despite residents already paying 8.625 percent in sales taxes and Mayor Frank Scott unsuccessfully atte…
A corollary to the caution about the uninformed repeating history's bad parts is that these folks also don't learn from the good parts.
As an academic who writes on the intersection of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and race-based admissions, I'm well familiar with the circumstance highl…
Outgoing Chief Executive Officer of the Little Rock Water Reclamation Authority (the sewage utility) Gregorio Ramon, along with sewage utility commissioner Chr…
A sad refrain from officials seeking surreptitiously to geld Arkansas' Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is that the FOIA is "inefficient." That "inefficiency,…
I recently attended a reunion of former employees of Mike DeWine, governor of Ohio. He was a U.S. senator when I was one of his advising counsel on the Judici…
You already know about the new library statute--Act 372--which eliminates an exception in obscenity law for librarians, formalizes a process for local elected …
I must be bad at business, because I regularly agree not to take money from my law clients. For example, I represent a rape victim whose voice wasn't being hea…
My very first Sunday column discussed the importance of Arkansas' light-shining Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)--the law I've dedicated my career to analyzin…
I readily reiterate below that my views expressed here don't reflect those of my school. That faculty and administrators shouldn't endorse political positions …