Subscriber Exclusive
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: And the band plays on
Joe Biden is another year older, and Donald Trump is as transparently ridiculous as ever.
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/
Latest Stories
-
![]()
-
![]()
Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Not in reasonable times
Amendment 33 to the state Constitution was ratified by the voters in 1942 for the surely naïve aim of keeping politics out of higher-education and prison matte…
-
![]()
Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Weighing another Trump presidency
Retired four-star Marine Corps General John Kelly, former chief of staff to Donald Trump as president, spoke to The Washington Post the other day with exaspera…
-
![]()
Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Performance at the Capitol
If you're the governor and your prison director is seeking to do your bidding but runs into resistance from the Board of Corrections, there are a couple of way…
-
![]()
Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: A matter of decency
State government seems to have discovered only lately that the buildings of the Arkansas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired and the Arkansas School for…
-
![]()
Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Democrats find a heartbeat
When the ticket closed Tuesday for candidate filings, the state Democratic Party held a press briefing to announce its pulse.
-
![]()
Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Bubba only about half-hog on Sam
Bubba McCoy, fielding an unusually early Thanksgiving call from me because I wanted to take his temperature on the football situation, said he thought it was, …
-
![]()
Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Asa betting on long shot
Asa Hutchinson told the Sunday episode of "Capitol View" on television station KARK-TV that an Iowa farmer had said to him that he was entirely too normal for …
-
![]()
Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: A tale of two women
Republican women vary. We have Sarah Sanders and Nikki Haley. We beheld their vivid contrast Wednesday evening.
-
![]()
Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Not exactly rational
Surely you feel it. There is something happening here. It is not exactly clear.