By Steve Flowers Currently, congressmen/women win reelection at a 98 percent rate. The communist politburo does not have that high of a reelection...
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Prepare scrumptious, fresh dishes for mid-summer nights
By Ann Cipperly “Summer afternoon- summer afternoon, to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” Henry James...
Watch out for sharks
By Hardy Jackson A dispatch from the coast. Earlier this summer I was standing in waist-deep warm Gulf water, June weed gone and it was so clear I...
Same gun, different hands
By Wendy Hodge I shot a gun for the first time today. That makes me something of an anomaly, I suppose… a Southern girl, born and raised right here...
Inside the Statehouse
By Steve Flowers The storyline of last week’s GOP Primary runoff was the extremely low turnout. The big surprises to me were the big victories by...
The Nurse
By Sean Dietrich A frozen yogurt joint. I’ve just finished supper. My belt is tight from eating too much pizza. There are too many yogurt flavors to...
Grandmother, granddaughter enjoy special time during summer
By Ann Cipperly After Martha Hill’s husband, Hoyt, passed away in 2015, life has changed, but faith and family have remained the most important....
Inside the Statehouse
By Steve Flowers You have the results of Tuesday’s runoff elections. I had to go to press with my column before the results were known. There are...
A summer at the Observer: intern Anna Riley shares her experiences
By Anna Riley My name is Anna Riley and I started interning at the Opelika Observer in the middle of May this year. I grew up in Rome, Georgia, but...