BY STEVE FLOWERS OPINION— The 2024 Legislative Session begins next week. It will be difficult to replicate the success of last year’s regular...
2024 Legislative session begins next week
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Lucky Pot lives up to hype
BY STACEY WALLACE OPINION — As I have probably mentioned before in this column (It’s hard to remember because, unbelievably, I have written for The...
America’s Aunt
BY SEAN DIETRICH OPINION — Nobody knows when it started. But it did. The first jar of pickles to appear on Aunt Bee’s grave in Siler City, North...
Out of this world — part two
BY BRUCE GREEN OPINION — Last week we looked at the “heavenly realms,” a phrase Paul uses five times in Ephesians. We talked about it being 1)...
We have to live by affirmation
BY WALT ALBRITTON OPINION — He was already 77 years old when I met E. Stanley Jones, but God used that encounter with Brother Stanley to change my...
Girls wrestling perfoms well
BY D MARK MITCHELL BY D. MARK MITCHELL OPINION — WRESTLINGTwo Opelika High student-athletes, Heidi Peralta-Fernandez and Gabrielle Reese, earned a...
Winter needs snow, soup, sleep, sharing
BY BETH PINYERD CONTRIBUTED TO THE OBSERVER OPINION —My little dog, Cookie, keeps this fur Mom on a regular routine and schedule. At 6 a.m. she...
The Race to Watch
BY STEVE FLOWERS OPINION— The most interesting race to watch this year in Alabama will be for the newly drawn second con-gressional district.The new...
New faces in DC: House and Senate gain Millennials and Gen Xers
BY GREG MARKLEY OPINION — When Lee County election results were announced for the 1996 general election, it was apparent that Republicans made great...