By George S. Ford, PhD Special to the Opelika Observer It’s a day of reckoning as sure as a sunrise. Last week, the City of Opelika sold its city-owned broadband system for pennies on the dollar (or, to be fair, nearly a quarter on the dollar). With $43 million in...

Dear Editor. My wife and I attended the screening of First Man, sponsored by Southern Tattler and Opelika Observer, last evening and we found the film very engaging. It was different from what I expected...I expected to see a portrait of a heroic figure surmounting...

Until three years ago, like most citizens in Lee County, I’d never attended a Lee County Commission meeting. I’ve found failure to participate in this duty places all of us at risk: to protect the rights of the public, we must be aware of what the Commission is doing...