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When the dawn stopped cracking

Waking at the crack of dawn to the crowing of a rooster gave me a strong sense of ...

Daniel Sutter

A better way to spend more on education

Alabama school districts miss an opportunity to save tens of millions of dollars every year. This is the ...

Daniel Sutter

Minimum wage, minimal help

The ongoing campaign to increase the minimum wage raises numerous issues, some of which I have weighed in ...

Jaine Treadwell

Good girls don’t do snuff

Like a lot of women of my childhood, my grandmother dipped snuff. My granny said there wasn’t a thing ...

Daniel Sutter

Economists’ cost confusion

Last week I discussed how college football illustrated how costs are less tangible than people suppose. Many decisions ...

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P.G. or not to be?

The image of the stork winging its way to our house with my baby brother cradled in a ...

Daniel Sutter

College football and costs

The economic landscape of college football is rapidly changing. This is the first year of the Bowl Championship ...

Lifestyles

Skipping bars: Icing on the cake

If I’d ever had five brand new dresses before, I didn’t remember.

Daniel Sutter

Is this a human rights violation?

The United Nations last week accused the city of Detroit of violating residents’ human rights by disconnecting water ...

Opinion

Speeding locomotives = train wrecks

Earlier this year a Federal Appeals Court upheld the Alabama constitution’s limits on taxation.  The plaintiffs in Lynch ...

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