by The Observer Staff | Feb 15, 2013 | Column
International Data Privacy Day was Jan. 28 and the odds that the majority of my readers celebrated that day are in the slim-to-none range. The possibility that the majority of my readers had even heard of International Data Privacy Day is also in that limited range....
by The Observer Staff | Feb 15, 2013 | Column
It has always bothered me that music arrangers (speaking here of big bands, but it applies to other musical forms also) don’t get enough credit. One guy may be the leader of the band, but it is the arranger who gives the band its sound. Of course the leader may be an...
by The Observer Staff | Feb 15, 2013 | Column
Imagine you’re walking Rover down the street when he slips his collar and dashes in front of an oncoming vehicle. Depending on the degree of his injuries and the clinic you take him to, the treatment costs could range from hundreds to thousands of dollars. Would you...
by The Observer Staff | Feb 15, 2013 | Column
I trust that everyone had a nice Valentine’s Day. I’m sporting a new little emerald on my ring finger. It pays to hint. Sometimes hinting is not enough, as I learned from some of my sister-friends this week. I suppose we are all different, but I have lived with the...
by The Observer Staff | Feb 8, 2013 | D. Mark Mitchell, Sports
By D. Mark Mitchell Sports Editor OHS Basketball Opelika’s girls and boys basketball teams each have two regular season games left, tonight at Valley and Saturday in Montgomery against Carver. Girls The girls won the right to host the Area tournament with a 6-0 Area...