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Greg Markley Articles

Allen Follows Through With Positive Changes to Alabama’s Voter List

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,...
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To Me, It’s Appropriate to Say ‘Greatest Generation’ But Some Say ‘No’ — Part Two

OPINION —My father Joseph Markley of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, easily fits into the category above. Born into a blue-collar home in 1919, he endured the Great Depression and served four years in the Army Air Corps during World War II. A staff sergeant, he was an...
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It Sounds Catchy, but “Bucket List” is a Many-Headed Hydra — Part One

BY GREG MARKLEY OPINION —Fargo, North Dakota, and Moorhead, Minnesota, share a visitors’ center near the state line. It is not a rare sight to see visitors declare that their “Bucket List” of visiting all 50 states is ending there. Many people on the chase for the 50...
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‘Staying Back’ in Grammar School Can Be Necessary — Just Ask Me

BY GREG MARKLEY OPINION —In spring 1963, I was told I would have to take first grade a second time. A seven-year-old, I did not have a good overall grade to advance to second grade. This was in a strict Catholic grammar school. I enrolled two months before turning...
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