Letter to the Editor Articles

The Honorable Mayor Anders and Auburn City Council Members,

RE: I disagree with Ordinance No. 3288 dealing with short-term rental but what is really sad is how the implementation of that ordinance is being carried out.  (https://auburnalabama.org/short-term-rentals/Ordinance3288.pdf) We live in the house that my wife grew...

Editor:

The conflicting reports concerning the proposed National Commission to investigate the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, include:  Senator McConnell’s “House Democrats slanted and unbalanced proposal;” Congressman Mike Rogers’ “a partisan commission;”...

Letter to the Editor: Steve Flowers’ Fundamental Misunderstanding of the US Senate

In the May 13 edition of the Observer, former state Rep. Steve Flowers argued in his state-wide political column that the retirement of U.S. Senator Richard Shelby “will be nothing short of devastating” for the state of Alabama. Furthermore, Mr. Flowers claimed that...

Letter to the editor

I have just completed reading the book “Glimmer of Hope”, the account of the March For Our Lives which had an estimated 800,000 peaceful participants in March 2018, after the mass shooting of students at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida....
Letter to the editor: Pre-championship game message

Opelika’s Cinderella story

Dear Editor, Everyone is a sucker for a good underdog story. There is nothing greater than an upset in March Madness or an FCS team going in and...

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Letter to the Editor: The importance of term limits

Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor, Recently I read Mr. Fred Woods’s very interesting Jan. 16, 2016 article online about the history of the Spring Villa plantation owned...

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