by The Observer Staff | Oct 4, 2023 | Community
BY AUDREY KENTFOR THE OBSERVER OPELIKA —The Rev. Clifford Jones of Opelika, senior pastor of Greater Peace Missionary Baptist Church, was recently named one of the most influential men of Alabama by the Tuskegee United Women’s League.According to Jones, The Tuskegee...
by The Observer Staff | Oct 4, 2023 | Column, Steve Flowers
BY STEVE FLOWERS OPINION —It’s official and final, Alabama will elect our seven member congressional delegation under new lines next year. The federal court has spoken. The special master drawing the lines has acted and the final omnipotent power, the U.S. Supreme...
by The Observer Staff | Oct 4, 2023 | Column, Sean Dietrich
BY SEAN DIETRICH This is not my story. It was told to me. In fact, I’m hearing it for the first time, just like you are.The year was 1982. The old man climbed out of a rust-red Ford. He was ancient. He walked with a shuffle as he hobbled into the supermarket....
by The Observer Staff | Oct 4, 2023 | Column, Greg Markley
BY GREG MARKLEY OPINION —“It doesn’t matter what I think, it doesn’t matter what I feel, the dead are still dead,” so said a guard who allowed hundreds of women and children to die in The Reader (2008). I have lived in five U.S. states (Rhode Island, Texas, Georgia,...
by The Observer Staff | Oct 4, 2023 | Column, Stacey Wallace
BY STACEY WALLACE /PHOTOS BY MIKE WALLACE FOR THE OBSERVER Unbelievably, my husband Mike and I will soon celebrate our 8th year living in Auburn, and it has been such a blessing. As I may have mentioned before in this column, Mike, out of the blue, sprang the idea of...
