By Gerald W. Johnson For the Observer Did you vote in the Aug. 15 and Sept. 24 special primary elections for our next U. S. Senator? Will you vote in the Dec.12 general election? Not many voters did. Why not? Does it matter? In the August election, Lee County ranked...

Dear Editor: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information reported: “In 2017 (as of July 7), there have been 9 weather and climate disaster events [and counting] with losses exceeding $1 billion each across the United States. These events included 2 flooding...

By Dr. Joe Godfrey First, let’s end the pretense about what alcohol is. A mixed cocktail isn’t a soft drink. A beer isn’t the equivalent of a bottle of Gatorade. Sipping a glass of wine isn’t the same as sipping a glass of iced tea. We should stop talking about...

By Cameron Smith We don't need the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board (ABC) in Alabama. It's a bureaucratic dinosaur waiting for its extinction-level event. Now, the ABC has done the dirty work of raising taxes for the Alabama Legislature and Governor Kay Ivey. The ABC...