By GREG MARKLEY On the first day of high school in 1971, as freshmen, two friends and I bought elevator tickets from burly and angry-looking...
Greg Markley Articles
Iron Bowl Publicity Leads to Research on Alabama Politicians With a Gridiron Background
By GREG MARKLEY It happened a few days after I arrived at Fort McClellan, Alabama, in November 1989 to serve as editor of The McClellan News and...
Dick Cheney, Heart Attacks, Stubborn People and Me
By GREG MARKLEY With the death of former Chair of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Colin Powell in October, I was reminded of the amazing durability of Dick...
Tokenism in Assigning Book Reviews: Worthy Idea or More Wokeism?
By GREG MARKLEY In a recent piece in New York Times magazine, opinion writer Jay Caspian Kang wrote a commentary titled “The Reductive Practice of...
No College Degree? No Problem. Reading Can Propel You to Success.
By GREG MARKLEY I remember reading Alice Walker’s “Possessing the Secret of Joy” (about female genital mutilation) in 1994, riding a city train in...
Why Do Politicians Tell So Many Lies? Answer: Laziness and Partisanship.
By GREG MARKLEY American humorist Mark Twain said, “There are three kinds of lies: “lies, damned lies, and statistics.” Many people believe he was...
Colin Powell Knew How to Treat People — Even The Unruly Press
By GREG MARKLEY Colin Powell, son of Jamaican immigrants in Harlem, rose to the zeniths of American authority—military, diplomatic and moral....
Mental Health Crisis Centers Remind Me of My Sister’s Schizophrenia
By GREG MARKLEY A warning I heard at home from my parents was, “Don’t volunteer for anything.” Like that would stop me! I was in college studying...
Despite Surges in Auburn, ‘Everybody Knows Everybody.’ Untrue.
By GREG MARKLEY The U.S. Census Bureau recently released population numbers for the states and cities. Huntsville is now Alabama’s largest city,...