Dear Editor: I read with interest your report in the May 31 issue of the Observer concerning Flags for Vets. I already have a flag pole but the...
Letter to the Editor Articles
Letter to the Editor: An alternative to the Paris Agreement
Dear Editor, Archimedes said, “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I can move the world.” We have the lever and...
Letter to the Editor: Paris Agreement on climate change
Dear Editor, Withdrawing from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change (now with 196 nations on board) is a perverse version of “American...
Letter to the Editor: Who are we?
Dear Editor, I’m an Alabamian - born and raised. I’ve lived 40 of my 53 years here. I want to be a proud Alabamian – a proud American. Here’s what...
Letter to the Editor: Lee County jeopardy: What is a bond?
Dear Editor, Since the Commission and its Chairman have declined to explain why the County Engineer was un-bonded for nearly five years, a...
Op-Ed: Opelika needs broadband, here’s why
By Gary Fuller Mayor of Opelika Editor's note: The Observer has published several letters to the editor critical of city-owned and operated fiber...
Opinion: Extending Opelika’s internet fiber should wait
By Alan Seals * Since the end of the Great Recession, just twenty counties generated half of the new businesses and the better part of economic...
Letter to the Editor: Thankful for Opelika
Dear Editor, Three days before this past Christmas (2016) we came through Opelika on our way to South Carolina to spend Christmas. We were traveling...
‘Unonimous’ installation of AU’s 19th president
By John Sophocleus For the Observer I observed installation of Steven Leath as AU’s 19th President at the University Ballroom March 20th. AU’s...