OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Fear and trembling
U.S. Rep. French Hill has warned voters in the 2nd Congressional District that his Democratic opponent, state Sen. Joyce Elliott, is Black.
Perhaps you're thinking: Oh, he did not. Surely.
So, here'...
October 22, 2020
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: It's all on the line
You choose the full early-voting experience, autumn 2020 style.
You mask up and take a stand at a six-foot interval at the distant end of a line winding along three sidewalks to an unseen door into a...
October 21, 2020
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: What is news? Not that
Few clichés strike listeners more tiresomely than that of the old guy telling people how much better things were in his day.
I risk that tiresomeness to share an anecdote relevant to a modern politic...
October 20, 2020
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: A spark rekindled?
We'd have ourselves a photo finish, except we're at the head of the stretch.
The latest poll from Talk Business and Politics and Hendrix College, conducted Sunday through Tuesday, shows U.S. Rep. Fre...
October 18, 2020
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: The virtue of convenience
Because of the virus and increased reliance on absentee voting, the two biggest sprawling urban counties in Texas presumed to offer drive-by absentee dropoff boxes—11 in the Houston area and five in t...
October 15, 2020
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Nice, nonsensical ... naptime
I need to make several corrections.
I wrote that the French Hill-Joyce Elliott debate Monday on AETN public television would be notable. It wasn't.
I wrote that Joyce would go after French for lying...
October 14, 2020
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Focus on Little Rock schools
Avert your eyes from the presidential disgrace. If you live in Little Rock, contemplate instead something more within your direct control.
I refer to the election Nov. 3 of the nine members of a rest...
October 13, 2020
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Setting a low bar
We require no more debates at the presidential and vice-presidential level. We have seen quite enough. We have had it up to here.
But we could use at least one debate in the congressional race in Ark...
October 11, 2020
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Complications to consider
We must not forget about the white Arkansas State Police trooper who detained, handcuffed and searched a Black law student in August on Interstate 40 for ... well, that's the question.
My recent corr...
October 8, 2020
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Certain of being uncertain
It would be best if voters in the Little Rock School District not learn first at the polling place of the ballot proposal for extending a school millage for 18 years to raise hundreds of millions of d...
October 7, 2020
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Punching in desperation
I've been dubious about polls showing Joyce Elliott, the liberal Democratic lion, essentially in a tie with French Hill, the loyal Trumpian in a congressional district widely understood to adore Trump...
October 6, 2020
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: What we're left with
We don't get to do much direct democracy in America.
We're denied it in the installation of a preposterous second-place and Russian-endorsed hideous creature of a president. We anoint our commander-i...
October 4, 2020
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: In name only
"Who's the second one?"--Michael Bloomberg, when asked whether it would be good for the country if he became the Democratic nominee for president and the nation thus faced a choice between two billion...
October 1, 2020
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Let's get ready to rumble!
Did someone predict a "near-octogenarian cage fight"?
With all these worries facing Americans amid all their desperate need for reassuring leadership, solid ideas and good plans, the two major candid...
September 30, 2020
OPINION | JOHN BRUMMETT: Pooh-poohing partisans
State Sen. Jim Hendren ranted on Twitter last week against his state Republican Party in defense of a Blue Dog Democratic colleague opposed by Republican smears in the general election.
If presses we...
September 29, 2020