OPINION | REX NELSON: A middle ground
by
Rex Nelson
|
Today at 1:46 a.m.
Gwen Ford Faulkenberry of Ozark, an English teacher and mother of four whose guest columns appear on the pages of this newspaper, personifies what I consider to be the middle of the road in Arkansas.
She was born at Charleston the town that produced Sen. Dale Bumpers where her parents were teachers. The family later moved to Ozark. She went to college at the University of Central Arkansas and attended law school for a year at the University of Arkansas. I learned during that year that I didn t want to practice law, she says.
A worthy debate nwaonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nwaonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Steve Barnes
This column has been updated to extract Rep. Stephen Meeks of Conway from two sentences.
Nate Bell refers to him as “the little demagogue down in Florida.” Way down in Florida, in Palm Beach, at the resort called Mar-a-Lago. He owns the place, Donald Trump, and lives there, smoldering. And if he does not own outright the Republican Party, he is plainly in control of it. Defeated after a single term in the White House, but still enthroned. Remarkable. Remarkable, and to Bell – who left the GOP and declared himself an Independent while still in the Arkansas House of Representatives –frightening.
Why Arkansas Is a Test Case for a Post-Trump Republican Party
Sarah Huckabee Sanders seems likely to bring the Trump brand to Arkansas politics in a big way. But the state is a testing ground for different possible futures for the party.
A business in downtown Clinton, Ark., in October 2019. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has positioned herself as a Trump loyalist as she runs for governor in a state the former president carried by 27 points last year. Credit.Audra Melton for The New York Times
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. For decades, Arkansas punched above its weight in politics and business.
In the 1990s, it was home to the president and the world’s wealthiest family. In the 2000s, three onetime Arkansans ran for president. A decade later, the state claimed its sixth company on the Fortune 500 list.