Weekly commentary by local journalists and educators about Arkansas news.  

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Max Brantley
Editor, Arkansas Times

Max is a native of Lake Charles, La. He majored in Journalism at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., and then joined the staff of the Arkansas Gazette in 1973 as a reporter. He later became editor of the daily newspaper, and when the paper folded in 1991, he became Editor of the Arkansas Times, Arkansas' weekly "newspaper of politics and culture."

Ann Bennett Clemmer
Instructor, UALR Department of Political Science

Ann Veasman Clemmer (nee Bennett) has taught political science at UALR since 1992, teaching courses in the American Politics subfield. A native of the Arkansas Delta, she has been active in Arkansas politics since the late 1970s, serving on the three-member election commission for Mississippi County for a number of years. She is also a frequent panelist on AETN's "Arkansas Week".

John DiPippa
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy, UALR William H. Bowen School of Law

Professor DiPippa practiced with the Legal Aid Society of Roanoke Valley, Virginia. He joined the UALR faculty in 1983 and teaches Constitutional Law, Legal Profession, Law & Religion, Interviewing & Counseling, and Alternative Dispute Resolution and served as the Associate Dean from 1990 to 1993. He is the co-author of The Counselor-at-law: A Collaborative Approach to Client Interviewing and Counseling (1999) as well as articles in the areas of legal ethics and constitutional law.

Gwen Moritz
Editor, Arkansas Business

Moritz has been editor of Arkansas Business, a statewide business weekly published in Little Rock, since 1999. She is a native Arkansan, a graduate of North Little Rock Northeast High School and Harding University at Searcy. Her career has included reporting jobs with the Pine Bluff Commercial, the defunct Arkansas Gazette and the Nashville (Tenn.) Business Journal.

David Sanders
Columnist, Arkansas News Bureau

Sanders has been involved in state politics since the early 1990s. While a student at Ouachita Baptist University, he was a member of then-Lt. Gov. Mike Huckabee's 1996 transition team and became a policy and communications aide to the governor after graduation. He left the governor's office in 1998 to serve as press secretary to Fay Boozman during Boozman's failed U.S. Senate campaign. Sanders is also a commentator for AETN's Arkansas Week.