Daniel Sutter

The space shuttle and the stock market

Last week marked the 30th anniversary of the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger, a shared national tragedy ...

February 3, 2016

Guest Columnists

Immoral Girl Scout cookies

The Girl Scout cookie season is upon us — which means people with nothing better to do will ...

February 2, 2016

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Lingering longings: Memories inspire professor’s music

When Tim Phillips came to Troy University and started playing Carl Vollrath’s music, Vollrath considered that the greatest ...

January 30, 2016

Guest Columnists

Regardless of whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, a conservative or a liberal, all of us ...

January 29, 2016

Daniel Sutter

How to overcrowd prisons

Alabama’s prisons currently house 24,000 inmates, but were designed to hold 13,000. The legislature’s 2015 sentencing reforms ...

January 27, 2016

Guest Columnists

Surviving the winter blues

Boy, it’s cold outside. It’s so cold, politicians are picking their own pockets ... people are flocking inside ...

January 26, 2016

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A friend in need isn’t necessarily a ‘friend’

Several us “girls” were sitting around the other day and a couple of them were commenting on how ...

January 23, 2016

Guest Columnists

Now, the voters will decide

Everywhere I go, people want to know who will win the presidential nominations. And I tell them, wait ...

January 22, 2016

Opinion

Political news from 2015 will dominate 2016

A good many of the news stories that were the most noteworthy events of 2015 will continue into ...

January 21, 2016

Daniel Sutter

The unintended consequences of Uber

The disruption of established taxi markets around the nation and world by ridesharing services like Uber and Lyft ...

January 20, 2016