John Brummett
Recent Stories
Fiscal efficiency
LITTLE ROCK — One of my most valued readers tells me I have behaved insufferably in writing that Arkansas voters had no idea what they were doing when they approved these off-year fiscal legislative sessions. Continue reading...
Controlling controversy
LITTLE ROCK — The Obama administration thinks it cannot go wrong politically, especially with women, by supporting birth control and equal access to it. Continue reading...
Partisan nuttiness
LITTLE ROCK — People go a little crazy whenever someone starts talking about slowing the ever-rising rate of spending for Medicaid in Arkansas. Continue reading...
Drive-By Shooting Reported
SPRINGDALE — Police are investigating a drive-by shooting reported on Braxton Drive on Friday night.
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A growing cancer
LITTLE ROCK — The biggest political news last week was not that Mitt Romney drubbed Newt Gingrich in Florida and went out the next day and gaffed that he doesn’t worry about poor people because we have a safety net. Continue reading...
A message in a fiscal-session bottle
LITTLE ROCK — A gaggle of Democratic state legislators called a rare news conference Tuesday at the state Capitol. Continue reading...
Still a taxing issue
LITTLE ROCK — You can tell that Republicans are losing the emerging debate over politically worsened tax unfairness and politically widened wealth disparity. Continue reading...
Not class warfare
Tweaking the tax code
LITTLE ROCK — Mitt Romney’s tax return for 2010 has performed a worthy public service. It has let regular people in on a secret that the elite rich and the high-financiers have known all along. Continue reading...
Just for argument’s sake
LITTLE ROCK — Let’s get style out of the way before we get to substance. Continue reading...
Keep the letters coming
The sweet and dear woman who blesses me with wedlock says she gets mad reading these letters to the Voices page that assault me regularly. Continue reading...
