Editorial Board Articles

When Julius Caesar divorced his wife, Pompeia, he was asked why. Supposedly he replied that Pompeia was suspected of some offense, and that the...

When I was a young man I was in the National Guard. Actually I was in two National Guards: the Alabama Guard and the Maryland Guard. I liked them...

Alabama’s state primary elections are now less than a month away, and, for the most part, we see a slate of candidates that will drift into the...

How many times have you read or heard about something and thought, “Darn, why didn’t I think of that!” or, worst still, “Why didn’t I do something...

Last week, we used an old, tried and true journalistic device: raising a question in a headline that we proceeded to answer, or at least attempted...

Sherman Edwards may have been penning song lyrics about the enmity in the Second Continental Congress when he wrote these lines, but we think those...

Our dear Mrs. Sikes, remember what happend to Dewey in 1948? It’s time for history to repeat itself once again. While our headline proudly declares...

While it may not seem like an important issue to many citizens, the Genealogical Society of East Alabama and its quest to change the organizational...

In this country, we have two major holidays celebrating the men and women of our armed services, the people who keep this place “the land of the...