by The Observer Staff | Feb 17, 2012 | Column
Having recently criticized GOP presidential wannabes for their anti-environmental positions, I should now mention how members of our state’s congressional delegation voted on bills related to environment and public health during the 2011 session. According to a...
by The Observer Staff | Feb 17, 2012 | Column
The Big Event, a one day student-run event sponsored by Auburn University Student Government Association, will be March 24 in Opelika, Auburn, Notasulga and Lee County. There will be a large turnout of Auburn University faculty and students who will lend a hand to the...
by The Observer Staff | Feb 17, 2012 | Column
If you don’t own a radio, have been living under a rock or are just not into music, you may have missed a real gem of a singer named Adele. If you are aware of current popular music at all you’ve probably heard of her. I have yet to find anyone who can say they don’t...
by The Observer Staff | Feb 17, 2012 | Column
In my first “real” newspaper assignment — probably toward the end of 1958 — I covered a speech by Gov. Orval Faubus of Arkansas to the White Citizens Council in a school auditorium in Northport, just across the Black Warrior River from Tuscaloosa. They did not call us...
by The Observer Staff | Feb 17, 2012 | Column
“It’s Cookie Time!” That message haunts me as I drive around town these days, as I see it displayed in store windows and private yards alike, reminding me of my eternal arch-nemesis – the Girl Scouts of America. For years, I’ve given in to their marketing...