Dear Editor, If you’re wondering what you should be focusing on in the month of June, there is only one thing: defending the ACA aka Obamacare. ...
Letter to the Editor Articles

Letter to the Editor: Flags for Vets article
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: 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...