We’d like to take this opportunity to once again welcome the widely-respected Bob Sanders to our family of columnists here at the Opelika Observer. We think he fits in far better with our local columnists than he ever did getting edited to death by the daily paper ......

Loyalty: you don’t see much of it any more. Loyalty is a faithfulness to commitments or obligations. Loyalty is faithful adherence to a cause, a group, an employer. Loyalty is a pledge of truth to oneself and others. Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of...

Some of you may have noticed this week’s issue of your beloved Opelika Observer seems to look a bit different. You aren’t crazy; things really are on different pages this week. This week, and over the next several weeks, we’ll be making tweaks and changes to some of...

State of Alabama, City of Opelika, citizens of both cannot afford tax-free days/weekends. Although it does little good to keep reminding us all, we are already the lowest taxed state in the nation. We don’t rank anywhere near the top in any category of what tax...