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John Brummett

Anti-war versus pro-Hillary
By John Brummett
County government executives from around the country were meeting at the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock. - Thursday, Nov 24, 2005

Bad sign: Judge asks if you're kidding
By John Brummett
There are a couple of things you don't want to hear from a robed justice seated behind the elevated bar in the fancy room when you're arguing before the Arkansas Supreme Court. - Tue, Nov 22, 2005

Making political art of science
By John Brummett
That wasn't such wonderful news a couple of weeks ago for Democrats. - Mon, Nov 21, 2005

Take the Arkansas Baby Boomer quiz
By John Brummett
Newsweek magazine recently celebrated, if that's the right word, that the first Baby Boomers are turning 60. - Sun, Nov 20, 2005

Front row for the anti-hog
By John Brummett
This will be my first Razorback game since, well, it's been so long I'll have to look it up. - Sat, Nov 19, 2005

Top five with an asterisk
By John Brummett
Time magazine says Our Boy Mike is one of the nation's five best governors. - Thu, Nov 17, 2005

Whose fault is this? Mine, you say?
By John Brummett
State Sen. Jim Argue of Little Rock - and, heck, he's one of the good ones - says he didn't know what he was doing when he voted for that highway bond bill. - Tue, Nov 15, 2005

'Undue burden,' not Roe, defines Scalia Lite
By John Brummett
Pro-lifers who rejected Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court because her opposition to abortion wasn't a verifiable cinch instantly rejoiced over the fallback nomination of Samuel Alito. - Mon, Nov 14, 2005

Poll critique - a partisan affair
By John Brummett
My recent history of poll criticism compels me to shut my mouth on the subject. - Sun, Nov 13, 2005

Financial planning from truckers
By John Brummett
At first glance, it baffles that truckers would come out against a way to raise more than a half-billion dollars for interstate highway improvement that would ask not one additional cent from them. - Sat, Nov 12, 2005

Report from Stage Three
By John Brummett
Requests have dribbled in that I address the football debacle at Razorback Inc. - Thu, Nov 10, 2005

It' a bird, it's a plane, it's Bad Mike
By John Brummett
Bad Mike is back, unless he just flew out again on the State Police airplane. - Tue, Nov 08, 2005

Where's arrogance in the criminal code?
By John Brummett
Let's discuss the Scooter Libby indictment to try to get closer to its significance and essence. - Mon, Nov 07, 2005

Revenge of the small school districts
By John Brummett
Gov. Mike Huckabee presented an award on live television Tuesday night that proclaimed the Valley View School District south of Jonesboro the very best in the state. - Sun, Nov 06, 2005

Asa, anonymity and smears
By John Brummett
This is about "blogs" again, only because Warwick Sabin had a nice little scoop on the subject in his column in this week's Arkansas Times. - Sat, Nov 05, 2005

Scalia the Second, and a fine mess
By John Brummett
George W. Bush got his presidency into such a mess that he was forced to run to the very bosom of his right-wing base and make a bitterly divisive nomination for the U. - Thu, Nov 03, 2005

Taking offense, and seeing lots of it
By John Brummett
Gunner DeLay, local lawyer and frequent politician, strolled into the Fort Smith Athletic Club where I sat watching the live telecast of Patrick Fitzgerald's news conference. - Tue, Nov 01, 2005

Bush vs. Bush, and Bush loses
By John Brummett
A Gallup Poll released midweek showed that President Bush would lose right now to a Democrat, and do so rather badly. - Mon, Oct 31, 2005

Report from the blogosphere
By John Brummett
You may not know that Wes Clark's spokesman told off Bill Halter the other day. - Sun, Oct 30, 2005

Debt? Democracy decides
By John Brummett
There's this exercise in direct democracy coming Dec. 13. Gov. - Thu, Oct 27, 2005

Dennis Byrd

David J. Sanders

The many reasons to be thankful
By David Sanders
It is time for that unique American holiday we call Thanksgiving. - Wed, Nov 23, 2005

Upon further reflection
By David Sanders
It was nothing more than too much inside baseball, one of those useless stories that points out how political journalism can fall prey to the horse race and a game of cat and mouse. - Sun, Nov 20, 2005

The governor, polls and those blogs
By David Sanders
Gov. Mike Huckabee has been on the receiving end of some good name-calling. - Wed, Nov 16, 2005

Problems at home and across the pond
By David Sanders
Misery loves company. It can even cross an ocean. - Sun, Nov 13, 2005

How about the polls?
By David Sanders
When you have good news, jump on it. - Wed, Nov 09, 2005

The anatomy of a decision
By David Sanders
Being Washington's center of attention is most often a curse - just ask Scooter Libby. - Sun, Nov 06, 2005

The model judge
By David Sanders
For me, the judiciary is the least familiar branch of government. - Wed, Nov 02, 2005

A possible explanation
By David Sanders
Candidates who run for public office want to make sure their message is reasoned, relevant, thoughtful and timely. - Sun, Oct 30, 2005

Can Bush recover?
By David Sanders
Is it possible that President Bush could shed his current misfortune and steer his troubled second-term presidency on to a more positive course? - Wed, Oct 26, 2005

Jack Moseley - One Small Voice

Doug Thompson

Did You Hear that?
By Doug Thompson
I knew a lawyer who was not a very religious man, either before or after God spoke to him. - Sat, Nov 19, 2005

Small schools' last stand
By Doug Thompson
The survival of Fayetteville's remaining small schools depends on whether Leverett and Washington elementary parents "hang together or hang separately. - Sat, Nov 12, 2005

The harder they fall
By Doug Thompson
Gubernatorial candidate Asa Hutchinson has escaped much of the damage from being a former Bush administration official, I wrote three weeks ago. - Sat, Nov 05, 2005

Spare the rod, spoil the party
By Doug Thompson
What a week for President Bush. How much better off he'd be if Kenneth Starr had persecuted him. - Sat, Oct 29, 2005

Harry King - Sports

Jefferson shows off in Maui
By Harry King
LITTLE ROCK - Editing a preview piece on Arkansas basketball, the man with his finger on the delete key suggested toning down a paragraph about who would be the Razorbacks' point guard. - Thursday, Nov 24, 2005

Stephens Center competes with game
By Harry King
LITTLE ROCK - Writing about the Navy-Arkansas Little Rock basketball game is impossible without including the tightly woven circumstances. - Wed, Nov 23, 2005

A reminder that season is long
By Harry King
LITTLE ROCK - Lately, there have been plenty of reminders that we are in too much of a rush to know. - Tue, Nov 22, 2005

Bulldogs continue hapless streak
By Harry King
LITTLE ROCK - Popular with politicians and educators every time Arkansas was No. - Sun, Nov 20, 2005

Taylor fits easy as champ
By Harry King
MEMPHIS - With two words, Pat Burns sucked the silliness out of the room. - Thu, Nov 17, 2005

Talk of coordinator is impossible to deal with
By Harry King
LITTLE ROCK - With sales of widgets slipping for five consecutive quarters, the head of the division was on the spot. - Wed, Nov 16, 2005

McFadden has bad day in Oxford
By Harry King
LITTLE ROCK - At the Hallmark store, pick out a thank-you card for Ole Miss linebacker Kelvin Robinson and something with a polite apology for John Mayes. - Tue, Nov 15, 2005

Arkansas wins; death of good friend hurtful
By Harry King
OXFORD, Miss. - Staring at the computer screen, words about Arkansas 28, Mississippi 17, were difficult to come by for personal reasons. - Sun, Nov 13, 2005

More than one choice this week for Nutt
By Harry King
LITTLE ROCK - One way or another, Darren McFadden was going to get the ball on fourth-and-1 from the South Carolina 17. - Sat, Nov 12, 2005

Parker is likely leader for 2006
By Harry King
FAYETTEVILLE - Houston Nutt alluded to team leaders of 2006 when he said the last three weeks of this season are about getting ready for next year. - Thu, Nov 10, 2005

BCS will get a pass this year
By Harry King
LITTLE ROCK - Sure as shooting, those BCS muckety-mucks are going to slide this year. - Wed, Nov 09, 2005

Check out Razorbacks' effort in final games
By Harry King
FAYETTEVILLE - Genuinely and with enthusiasm, the crowd applauded the performance in Razorback Stadium. - Tue, Nov 08, 2005

South Carolina gets bowl eligible against UA
By Harry King
FAYETTEVILLE - For folklore and the future, the setting was superb. - Sun, Nov 06, 2005

Arkansas equal or better than next three
By Harry King
FAYETTEVILLE - Between funny stories about Bear Bryant and a bird loose in a doublewide dressing room, Larry Lacewell delivered a nugget to the Little Rock Touchdown Club. - Sat, Nov 05, 2005

Monk is still available
By Harry King
FAYETTEVILLE - Some clever people with way too much time on their hands came up with a list of the top 10 messages left on Houston Nutt's voice mail after the Georgia game. - Thu, Nov 03, 2005

QB move question is 'why now?'
By Harry King
FAYETTEVILLE - The "why now?" of Houston Nutt's decision to go with freshman Casey Dick at quarterback makes more sense if you back off and unemotionally consider the week-to-week circumstances. - Wed, Nov 02, 2005

Jones In different world of NFL
By Harry King
ST. LOUIS - Used to the football in his hands and the media in his face, Matt Jones is in a different world. - Mon, Oct 31, 2005

Home schedule should help basketball
By Harry King
LITTLE ROCK - Arkansas and Alabama have a leg up on LSU in the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference because the Razorbacks and the Crimson Tide play Kentucky on the road. - Sun, Oct 30, 2005

Breeders' Cup sprint could affect Afleet Alex
By Harry King
LITTLE ROCK - There is a strength of schedule argument brewing in thoroughbred racing and it could affect Arkansas Derby winner Afleet Alex. - Sat, Oct 29, 2005

Nationwide Tour championship is reality
By Harry King
LITTLE ROCK - Before Mark Burnett sold television networks on voyeurism of the weird and personal, golf had this reality thing called Q-School. - Thu, Oct 27, 2005

High school game gets attention of political columnist
By Harry King
LITTLE ROCK - Summoned by the wordsmith of a neighborhood for a high-falutin discussion of anything from W. - Wed, Oct 26, 2005

Wesley Brown

Katrina criminals leaving long trail of victims
By Wesley Brown
The trickle down effect of Hurricane Katrina has the potential to be with us for many years to come, whether we want it to or not. - Sat, Nov 19, 2005

Noise from Wal-Mart haters drowns out retailer's positive messages
By Wesley Brown
Despite always low prices, the intense anger often aimed at Bentonville's Wal-Mart Stores Inc. - Sat, Nov 12, 2005

Wall Street Journal story like the 'Boy Who Cried Wolf' fable
By Wesley Brown
Over the next few weeks, the state will be eagerly awaiting an announcement from Hino Motors Ltd. - Sat, Nov 05, 2005

Obscene oil profits get typical response from Congress
By Wesley Brown
Where is the outrage? - Sat, Oct 29, 2005

Joe Mosby - Outdoors

11-year-old Conway girl gets her deer
By Joe Mosby
Determination can be a factor in successful deer hunting every bit as much as advance scouting, accurate shooting, use of an effective scent and all the other necessities. - Sat, Nov 19, 2005

Duck callers to carry on a Stuttgart tradition
By Joe Mosby
For almost 70 years now, various deep thinkers have tried to analyze Stuttgart's duck calling championships. - Sat, Nov 12, 2005

Elk add popular element to Arkansas' outdoors
By Joe Mosby
It's approaching a quarter century now that we've had elk in Arkansas. - Sat, Nov 05, 2005

Diseases plague wildlife, make the news
By Joe Mosby
If an Arkansas hunter picks up a newspaper or turns on the television set, he or she is likely to be hit with a scary message about disease among wild creatures. - Sat, Oct 29, 2005

Micki Bare - Diamond in the Rough

A word of thanks to litter picker-uppers and others
By Micki Bare
Late November is the perfect time to pause and show our gratitude, count our blessings and give thanks. - Sat, Nov 19, 2005

Do-it-yourself saves money, causes permanent forehead creases
By Micki Bare
Dad is a frugal man. If he can fix, build or assemble it himself, he does. - Sat, Nov 12, 2005

Insulation of memories piled high in attic
By Micki Bare
Every morning I pay close attention to the clothing in which my children try to escape to school. - Sat, Nov 05, 2005

Beware number of servings in midafternoon caffeine hit
By Micki Bare
There was a Mocha Frappuccino calling out to me from the refrigerated case in the back of the convenience store where I stopped to buy $60 worth of gas - I didn't have enough money to actually fill my tank. - Sat, Oct 29, 2005


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