Opinion

Plight of VictoryLand affects lives

The continuous merry-go-round opening and closing of Macon County’s VictoryLand is like a circus. It is a comedic ...

Jaine Treadwell

Frankly speaking of Southern comfort

Knowing good grammar and speaking it are two different things. I do different things. Having grown up around ...

Opinion

Will bench trial gamble favor BP?

The much anticipated BP trial began February 25th in New Orleans. British Petroleum faces billions of dollars in ...

Jaine Treadwell

Thoughts turn to quilts and birds

Sometimes thoughts get scrambled up in my head and don’t seem to have any rhyme or reason.

Editorials

Alabama lacks unified budget

We in Alabama are only one of a handful of states that do not work off of one ...

Jaine Treadwell

I didn’t get lockjaw & I didn’t die

Waste not, want not. Somebody famous said that. Or maybe it was what the Good Lord wrote on ...

Daniel Sutter

A time for choosing

Back in 1964, Ronald Reagan asked Americans to use common sense to evaluate the value of government programs. ...

Opinion

The real answer to immigration

America has almost 12 million illegal immigrants. Many of them came here on visas and never left. But ...

Blogs

Honesty really is the best policy

A few weeks ago, a Kansas City, Mo. woman had one of the worst days of her life. ...

Daniel Sutter

Speak truth to power

A few weeks ago, I had someone come up to me after a public lecture and say, “I ...

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