by Steve Flowers One of my most cherished lifetime memories is the almost two decades I served in the Alabama House of Representatives. It was...
Inside the Statehouse
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Burger Wars
I feel incredibly honored to have been invited to do some pretty cool things over the past few years—things that are near and dear to my heart. For...
Recollections on Father’s Day
by Bob Mount My late father was born in 1906 in Stilwell, Oklahoma in an area known at the time as “Indian Territory.” His parents died of typhoid...
How Bentley’s scandal stacks up
by Hardy Jackson As the saga of Gov. Robert Bentley played out in the press and in the “social media” (a term I love to hate) I could not help but...
OMS, OHS make coaching changes
by D. Mark Mitchell OHS SUMMER SPORTS REVIEW The girls and boys basketball teams are in the middle of playing games according to the AHSAA summer...
An annotated version of Gov. Bentley’s ‘bona fide b.s.’
By Stephen Cooper As reported (“Gov. Robert Bentley speaks on Mike Hubbard without mentioning Hubbard”, June 11) by Paul Gattis for Al.com, Alabama...
Inside the Statehouse
A few Friday nights ago, a large throng of people gathered at The Club in Birmingham despite a torrential thunderstorm. The event was called Jubilee...
Bumper stickers
Recently, you might recall, I did a piece about pickup trucks in which I observed that truck names were chosen to appeal to the good ol’ boy –...
Summertime in my hometown
First a reminder that there was a lot of difference between a country boy and a town boy, even if it was a small town. With that in mind, lets look...