by The Observer Staff | Feb 24, 2024 | Column, D. Mark Mitchell
BY D. MARK MITCHELL OPINION — Opelika’s Brady Campbell won the AHSAA State Wrestling Championship in the 157-pound weight class last weekend at the Vaughn Braun Civic Center in Huntsville. This is Campbell’s second-straight AHSAA wrestling State Championship.Ten...
by The Observer Staff | Feb 24, 2024 | Column, Greg Markley
BY GREG MARKLEY OPINION — Memories came flooding back to me on Feb. 1 after I attended the opening of a United Service Organizations (USO) facility for active-duty service members and their families stationed at Fort Moore. In 1984, I spent a lot of time at the USO at...
by The Observer Staff | Feb 24, 2024 | Politics
CONTRIBUTED TO THE OBSERVER AUBURN — Auburn University will host a working courtroom on March 14, when members of the Alabama Supreme Court convene in the Gogue Performing Arts Center (GPAC), creating a historic moment in the university’s history and offering a...
by The Observer Staff | Feb 24, 2024 | Politics
BY DAVID BELLFOR THE OBSERVER LEE COUNTY — Auburn attorney Kris Patton is the lone Democratic candidate for District Judge of Lee County in the March 5 Presidential Primary election. Patton is seeking to replace Judge Russell Bush, who is retiring at the end of this...
by The Observer Staff | Feb 24, 2024 | Column, Steve Flowers
BY STEVE FLOWERS OPINION— “Friends and Neighbors” politics and “all politics is local” has gone by the wayside. Instead, we are a state and nation divided along partisan and racial lines. In Alabama, almost all white voters are Republican and almost all black voters...
