While observing the legislature the other day, I fondly remembered a very eventful day as a youth. As a teenager, I grew up working at the Capitol...
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It’s never too late
In 1997, I was student at Southern Union State Community College. I’d just completed my first stint in the Army a year earlier. I was working full...
Use of Mosquito Fish to control Zika vectors
Mosquito fish, Gambusia affinis, are small live-bearing fish occurring naturally in permanent streams and lakes throughout eastern and southeastern...
Inside the Statehouse
Sometimes the best thing that the legislature can do in a session is to pass very little legislation. That can be said of this year’s regular...
Old time religion
Somebody mentioned the lack of catalpa worms this year. They are prized as fishbait. The mention reminded me of the big catalpa tree that stood near...
Purging the rolls
One of the great questions that has hung over American elections since forever has been “who should be allowed to vote.” All sorts of qualifications...
Drinking in the heart of Dixie
(This is the fourth and last in a series of columns that trace the history of efforts to regulate the manufacture, sale and consumption of alcoholic...
Inside the Statehouse
A few weeks ago former Alabama Chief Justice Perry O. Hooper Sr. died at his home in Montgomery at age 91. He was the epitome of the southern...
Remembering our fallen soldiers
Dear Captain Fuller, In science this week, we’re talking about the human body, and I hope your human body doesn’t get shot, but I have homework to...