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OPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Arkansas’ Uncle Sam
As you may recall, I'm originally from very northeast Arkansas--also known as New York. I distinctly recall growing up in an environment that essentially preve…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Protecting ordinary citizens
Anti-gun advocates fail to acknowledge the distinction between law-abiding citizens and criminals. The former, by definition, obey the law. The latter do not. …
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: FOIA future
The effort to garner sufficient signatures to place a government transparency-enshrining proposed constitutional amendment and initiated act on the November ba…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Whites need not apply, part II
Recently, my columnist-colleague Dana Kelley wrote an excellent exposition detailing how Arkansas swung hard from voting Democratic to having Republicans domin…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Silverstein, how dare you!?
My colleague Josh Silverstein and I are sometimes mistaken for each other, because we are both fast-talking, skinny Jews with somewhat similar surnames, amongs…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Republican or Republi-can’t?
Arkansas primary elections are "open," meaning that Democrats and independents can vote in Republican primaries and vice versa. So earlier this month, the Repu…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Bar fight
The Arkansas Constitution decrees: "No law shall . . . prohibit the circulation of petitions, nor in any manner interfer[e] with the freedom of the people in p…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Making public service great again
After Chris Corbitt, Ben Motal, and I brought a lawsuit culminating in the Arkansas Supreme Court holding that "attorneys, as officers of the court, are recogn…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Self-reliance over self-delusion
This paper's Northwest Arkansas edition has its own editorial-page writers who write per diurna. One of them critiqued my efforts resulting in the Arkansas Sup…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Whites need not apply
The website of the Arkansas Department of Higher Education has a page titled "Current Policies--Financial Aid." Scroll down and you'll find the Minority Teache…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Where’s your John Hancock?
I've discussed here several times two transparency proposals that might be on November's ballot: the Arkansas Government Disclosure Amendment and the Arkansas …
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Stinging rebuke
The story goes that a scorpion watched as a turtle routinely gave crickets rides across the lake. So, one day, the scorpion asked the turtle for the same.
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OPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Courts? What courts? Part II
Today, I continue last week's discussion regarding the disparity between what Supreme Court opinions command and how they're enforced. High Court proclamations…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Courts? What courts?
Two months ago, I offered plaudits when the University of Florida, in firing all of its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) employees, stated: "To comply wit…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | 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…
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Subscriber ExclusiveROBERT STEINBUCH: Free-speech contradictions
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…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Clinging to our gun rights
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.
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Common courtesy and common sense
The situation comedy "Barney Miller" premiered in 1975, detailing activities occurring almost exclusively in a New York City detective squad room in a fictiona…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Profiles in courage
As articulated previously, this column exposes the exploits of self-aggrandizing (or is it self-important?) public officials failing in their obligation to ser…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Oh, Hoxie, bless your heart
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…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Money down the drain
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…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: The fluctuating status of DEI
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…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Restoring rationality
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders recently appointed conservative former state senator and founder of the National Association of Christian Lawmakers Jason Rapert to…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: But wait, there’s more
Today I continue my series investigating the taxpayer-funded fiasco at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville's Saudi-autocrat-denominated Middle Eastern s…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Upholding values
In the delicate architecture of democracy, transparency stands as the singular structure safeguarding the covenant between the governed and those in authority.…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: I couldn’t have said it better myself
Arkansans from throughout the state and of all political persuasions--including two of my esteemed colleagues from this paper, one conservative and one liberal…
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OPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Arkansans First
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…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Told you so
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…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Where is the other side in these ‘forums’?
As I previously reported, the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville's Saudi-branded indoctrination program listed on its course-offerings webpage 35 classes part…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Arkansans deserve better
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…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Statements from academic institutions, and the roads to nowhere
I've previously written that higher-education administrators shouldn't hijack the imprimaturs of the universities they serve in communicating their personal op…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: King Fahd follies
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…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: FOIA transparency
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…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Make that a double (standard)
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…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: A commission for We the People
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…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Truths and consequences
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 …
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: FOIA: Friend or foe?
After repeated efforts to weaken the Freedom of Information Act by specific legislators decrying, by their own admission, the "inefficiency" of recognizing cit…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: More FOIA opinions
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…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: It’s time to defund antisemitism
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Arkansas state Senate President Bart Hester endured leftist lambasting last week for allegedly "beating the war drums for Israe…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Protecting the people’s law
In 1999, Gov. Mike Huckabee created the Electronic Records Study Commission to evaluate the Freedom of Information Act in light of technology advances.
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: A lesson on public trust
The Supreme Court recently held affirmative action--the keystone of the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) infrastructure--unconstitutional. Justice Clarenc…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: The Jewish nation lives
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…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Hoxie’s hijinks continue to heighten
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…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Ballot title is far from confusing
I've previously written here about leftists' abuse of language through 1. expurgating elements of expression in pursuit of protecting precious petunias from pe…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Arkansas citizens deserve transparency
During the recent special session in the Legislature, our elected representatives debated adding additional exemptions into our Freedom of Information Act. Leg…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Arkansas courts play Musical Chairs
In simplified terms, there are four levels of courts in the Arkansas judicial system:
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: College head says ‘no’ to cancel culture
Arkansas State University at Mountain Home employee Melissa Klinger is active in her community and conservative. She opposed proposals to increase real-estate …
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Career-ender bill
Proponents of the bill to castrate Arkansas' Freedom of Information Act make several incorrect claims.
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Subscriber ExclusiveCAW’s leaky money spigot
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 …
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Holding their feet to the fire
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…
