Column Articles

Inside the Statehouse

Reapportionment and Gerrymandering By Steve Flowers Hopefully, you participated in the census last year.  It is vitally important for each state that every person is counted. One of the first premises set out by our nation’s founding fathers is that there be a...

OHS Boys’, Girls’ soccer win area

On the MarkBy D. Mark Mitchell The OHS girls’ and boys’ soccer teams won the area championships last week with wins over Eufaula at the W. James Samford Soccer Complex in Opelika. Lady Bulldog head coach Jaclyn Button guided her team to their seventh straight area...

The Lifeblood of Relationships

By Walt Albritton Since my wife died, caring friends often ask me, “How are you doing?” It is a gracious way of asking if I am handling my sorrow well. They know that Dean’s death after 68 anniversaries left me with a heavy burden. But I sense as friends tenderly pose...

MAKING THE GRADE: ANOTHER BROKEN EGG CAFÉ

By Stacey Patton Wallace We’ve all heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day and that it should be the largest one. There’s even an old adage: “Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and sup like a pauper.” However, I’m afraid that my meal habits...

Reminiscing again

Some of you have heard some of this before, but some of you haven’t, so bear with me. We are going to do some high class remembering. Three years...

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December rains finally arrive

Following a lengthy period of droughty winter weather, the “December Rains” arrived. My rain gauge indicated that altogether, at least 16 inches of...

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My pets are spoiled

My cat, Abby, is literally sitting in my lap with her front paws on my desk as I’m typing this column. Her presence is creating a challenge, but...

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Big bands and girl singers

Unofficially, of course, the Swing Era, or the Big Band Era started about 1935 and petered out about 1947. Of course there were fine big bands...

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Picking time revisited

I occasionally get letters from readers. At times what they write is better than what I wrote, but I don’t tell them that.  Wouldn’t want to lose...

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