Current Commentators

Pat Lynch Host, Super Talk Arkansas Network Pat Lynch was born in Mobile, Alabama. He moved to Little Rock in 1983 and worked for Citadel Radio for 17 years. He writes a weekly column for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. In 2005, Lynch joined WAI radio. In addition to a daily webcast, his show is broadcast statewide on the Super Talk Arkansas Network. 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. If you have a comment about something you heard on Arkansas Viewpoint, click here to send us an e-mail.