by The Observer Staff | Oct 26, 2012 | Editorial Board, Opinions
“PREMIERE ISSUE: Community newspaper makes debut in Opelika” That’s what the first above-the-fold headline of the Opelika Observer read when we opened our doors almost four years ago. We feel honored and blessed to have succeeded in our endeavor to create and maintain...
by The Observer Staff | Oct 26, 2012 | Politics
Special to the Opelika Observer Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta presided over a change of director ceremony at Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) headquarters in Washington, DC in July that was of more than passing interest to several Opelikans. The outgoing...
by The Observer Staff | Oct 26, 2012 | Column
Ken Perenyi’s book, “Caveat Emptor,” is a study in audacity. The title of his book “Caveat Emptor” (The Secret Life of an American Art Forger) reflects a dark side. And it gets worse. When he was just getting started as an art forger during the late 1960s, he figured...
by The Observer Staff | Oct 26, 2012 | Column
My paternal grandmother, Janie Ruth McCollum, was an interesting individual. Set in her ways and more stubborn than a team of mules, she knew full well what she wanted to do and the way she wanted to do it, and no one, not even her well-meaning sons, could convince...
by The Observer Staff | Oct 26, 2012 | Column
There is no better advice you can give to someone who is interested in saving money than the advice to “stay out of the malls;” however, an important exception to that rule is that you may visit the outlet malls. It is also important that you have extreme self-control...