Editorial Board Articles

Unfortunately, mental health is an issue not often discussed by many. That’s a shame because an estimated one out of every four American adults...

Normally, within the realm of student theatre (especially high school student theatre), audiences are forced to put up with tepid, watered-down...

Editors’ note: For a time now, we’ve given the local daily paper a break from being discussed in our pages. We wanted to give the new staffers a...

During this week’s Lee County Commission meeting, the subject of appointments to one of the commission-appointed citizen boards was on the agenda....

It isn’t just that she was the driving force in putting together and getting out 209 issues of this newspaper - although she did. It wasn’t just the...

To all of us in the Opelika Observer family, she was always Bita Bullet. Somewhere, deep within us, we knew she was actually Rexena Murrielean...

If we told you Alabama used to be an agricultural state most of you would nod your heads in agreement. If I told you it still was many of you would...

It’s sometimes okay, even necessary to blow your own horn. Growing up in a fairly genteel Southern home (I guess that means “poor but proud”), you...

You know what a hero looks like? Look for Bennie Adkins. He’s one of them, certified by the President of the United States. That luminary awarded...