By Steve Flowers The 2022 annual regular session of the legislature has begun. It began Jan. 11 and constitutionally can last three and one-half...
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Top words of the year 2021: From ‘Vax’ to ‘Breadcrumbing’ to ‘Cisgender’
By GREG MARKLEY The Name of the Wind (2007) is a novel by Patrick Rothfuss. It’s focus is wizardry and a young man’s coming of age. Rothfuss is a...
New Year
By SEAN DIETRICH Lord have mercy. Betty White is dead. She inherited her eternal reward on New Year’s Eve, at age 99. Less than 24 hours before the...
Without Words
By WENDY HODGE Occasionally there are days when I sit in front of a blank screen with only a blinking cursor and the silence of my thoughts to keep...
Dear Dad
By ROBERTSON On Monday, Jan. 10, John Wesley Nettles turned 70 years old. Nettles was born in 1952, in Birmingham Alabama, to John T. and Hazel...
Enliven Meals With The Robust Flavors Of Mexican, Southwestern Cuisine
By Ann Cipperly Now that the warm weather over the holidays is gone, the cold days of January are here bringing thoughts of hearty dishes for...
Making the Grade: MK’s Asian Kitchen
By Stacey Patton Wallace In last week’s column, I said that, for the first time, I would be making my Grandma Patton’s wonderful tomato sauce to put...
The Connection That Counts
By BRUCE GREENTeaching Minister at 10th Street Church of Christin Opelika Paul talks about confidence in the flesh in Philippians 3:3-4....
Breaking Free from the Past
By WALTER ALBRITTON Mistakes are inevitable. We all blunder. So the big question is not how can we avoid mistakes but how can we avoid living in...