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OPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: A policy dedicated to division
In May, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences held a separate graduation for under-represented and minority students. This constant division of socie…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: The process of trashing the taxpayer
The Pulaski County Regional Solid Waste Management District--a government agency--paid nearly $1 million for advertising and media services along with "waste-t…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Supreme Court changes its course
Up until the recent passing of an Arkansas Supreme Court justice, a majority of the court was liberal. This results from having non-partisan judicial elections…
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Read my lips: No new taxes
Everywhere we turn, we're over-taxed. Take Little Rock. Despite residents already paying 8.625 percent in sales taxes and Mayor Frank Scott unsuccessfully atte…
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OPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: An FOIA history lesson
A corollary to the caution about the uninformed repeating history's bad parts is that these folks also don't learn from the good parts.
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: On and on, the struggle continues
As an academic who writes on the intersection of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and race-based admissions, I'm well familiar with the circumstance highl…
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OPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Cutting through the sewage
Outgoing Chief Executive Officer of the Little Rock Water Reclamation Authority (the sewage utility) Gregorio Ramon, along with sewage utility commissioner Chr…
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OPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Praise for the power of inefficiency
A sad refrain from officials seeking surreptitiously to geld Arkansas' Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is that the FOIA is "inefficient." That "inefficiency,…
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OPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Putting citizens last yet again
I recently attended a reunion of former employees of Mike DeWine, governor of Ohio. He was a U.S. senator when I was one of his advising counsel on the Judici…
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It takes a village to run a library
You already know about the new library statute--Act 372--which eliminates an exception in obscenity law for librarians, formalizes a process for local elected …
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The fox is guarding the henhouse
I must be bad at business, because I regularly agree not to take money from my law clients. For example, I represent a rape victim whose voice wasn't being hea…
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Be afraid of the darkness
My very first Sunday column discussed the importance of Arkansas' light-shining Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)--the law I've dedicated my career to analyzin…
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OPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: The hijacking of higher education
I readily reiterate below that my views expressed here don't reflect those of my school. That faculty and administrators shouldn't endorse political positions …
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OPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: Henny Penny’s high-minded hypocrisy
State Sen. Dan Sullivan sponsored Act 372, which eliminates an exception in obscenity law for librarians, codifies elected-official oversight of book placement…
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Academia is not a sideline career
I smile when lawyers tell me they want to become professors after they retire. Apparently, to them, academia is equivalent to playing shuffleboard at Del Boca …
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Making water services great again
Greater Little Rock has one public utility for clean water entering homes, Central Arkansas Water (CAW), and another for the dirty water leaving, Little Rock R…
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Selective outrage over discrimination
You might recall the details of how Ashlyn Hoggard had her First Amendment rights violated by Arkansas State University when she studied there. Because I've to…
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The good, the bad, the very ugly
A week ago, I was one of four invited speakers discussing affirmative action on a panel at the University of Arkansas Law School in Fayetteville.
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Conservatives not in the House today
It's often said that we get the Legislature we deserve. Not this time.
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The education-industrial complex
It's positively preposterous how palaces of purported progressive pundits preaching primarily performative pigment-and-plumbing prioritizing policies appropria…
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Affirmative action and its DEI doppelganger
I've written about the need to end both the institutional racism of quotas, set-asides and preferences--aka affirmative action--as well as the communist confor…
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Socialists’ social engineering must end
The time of smoke-filled back-room deals that undermine the will of the people has yet to come to an end.
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An end to quotas, preferences
When California eliminated state-sponsored discrimination nearly 30 years ago by prohibiting preferences based on race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national orig…
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Admire the honesty—or the brazenness
A Freedom of Information Act request of state universities produced bone-chilling diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) PowerPoint slides.
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Free speech rights must be enforced
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)-driven leftist-lamasery Stanford never seems to miss an opportunity to undermine free speech.
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OPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH: There’s racism, and there’s politics
Each decennial census potentially moves the lines of Arkansas' four congressional districts based on population shifts. This, in turn, may affect the biennial …
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Deciphering the meaning of ‘is’
My column revealing the sweetheart deal Arkansas State University gave private entity Cobblestone to sell liquor on campus disturbed Jeff Hankins, the Vice Pre…
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Stop the hostility to free speech
In previous columns discussing the progressive scourge of so-called Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), I mockingly referred to the left's politically corr…
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Opposing approaches to Jewish values
A joke attributed to Jewish comedians from upstate New York resorts in the 1960s--affectionately known as the Borscht Belt--recounts sailors rescuing a solitar…
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Boss Hogg as ASU’s role model
Arkansas State University in Jonesboro handed over the highly lucrative right to sell alcohol in ASU's First National Bank Basketball Arena, Centennial Footbal…
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Time to end the obscenity
Under current law, no Arkansas school or library employee acting within the scope of his or her employment is liable for disseminating obscene material to chil…
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OPINION | ROBERT STEINBUCH Determining Jews’ political values
Frequently I'm asked by Arkansans why Jews still lean left politically. The answer is a vestige of bygone days where Jews were unwelcome in conservative circle…
