By WALTER ALBRITTON The word “persevere” is seldom used in everyday conversations. If we want to encourage a struggling friend, we are more apt to...
Column Articles
Opelika Returns to Action
ON THE MARKD. MARK MITCHELL Opelika school students returned from Christmas break on Wednesday after having over two weeks off for the holiday. The...
Feel, See, Smell and Hear The Cold of Winter
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.” Ecclesiastes 3:1. By Beth Pinyerd I visited my son, Gus, in...
Inside the Statehouse
By Steve Flowers Happy New Year. It is election year in the good ole Heart of Dixie. Alabama, like a good many southern states, has our monumental...
Mo Brooks Seeks a Loftier Political Perch: the U.S. Senate
By GREG MARKLEY At 7:09 EST on June 14, 2017, shots rang out at a baseball stadium in Alexandria, Virginia, in a case of domestic terrorism. That...
Hall Family Celebrates New Year’s Day With Traditional Foods
By Ann Cipperly On New Year’s Day, the family of Vondalyn Hall celebrates with traditional southern foods. The day would be incomplete without hog...
Trees of Alabama
By SEAN DIETRICH Somewhere in Alabama. A small town with a cute main street, lots of muddy trucks and men who wear neon orange, even to church. The...
CHRISTMAS LAGNIAPPE
By WENDY HODGE This past weekend, I spent a couple of hours sitting in the living room floor surrounded by a dozen rolls of wrapping paper, a couple...
Making the Grade: Chuck’s Bar-B-Que
By Stacey Patton Wallace 3:42 a.m. central time … an incredibly early hour to be awakened by the insistent blaring of an alarm clock. However, for...