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...

President Trump’s nomination of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court is great for America and the State of Alabama. As Alabamians, our State Motto “We Dare Defend Our Rights” is fitting to also describe Judge Kavanaugh’s service, since 2006, as...