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Auburn, Opelika Mayors Pen Letter to the Editor

CONTRIBUTED BY AUBURN MAYOR RON ANDERS AND OPELIKA MAYOR GARY FULLER LEE COUNTY — To the Editor: In the 1950s, over 50% of American workers were unionized. Today, the percentage of American workers who are unionized is approximately 10%. The numbers for just the...

Tuberville, Manchin Announce Feedback from NIL Stakeholder Outreach

CONTRIBUTED TO THE OBSERVER OPINION — U.S. Sens. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced last Thursday some of the key findings from their outreach to various athletic leaders to build consensus around legislation related to name, image...

Fentanyl Overdose Risk is Significant

OPINION — Experts participating in a Facebook Live webcast sponsored by the Medical Association of the state of Alabama are alerting the public to the grave risk the synthetic opioid fentanyl poses to millions of Americans. While physicians sometimes medically...

Letter to the Editor

OPINION — The news therapist will see you now …. Given my background in journalism, it may seem blasphemous for me, of all people, to advise folks to limit their news intake for mental health’s sake. Yet, as a professional news junkie, I am alarmed by the...

Liberty in crisis, COVID-19 has changed everything

Liberty in crisis, COVID-19 has changed everything

Apr 1, 2020

By Zach Alsobrook Special to the Observer “That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn’t even any...

To Be A Bird

To Be A Bird

Mar 25, 2020

By Bradley Robertson Wow. What a wild, and perhaps adventurous, last couple weeks it has been. In processing all the events unfolding around us, my...

Courting down South

Courting down South

Mar 25, 2020

By Hardy Jackson Of all of the ways Southerners are stereotyped and slandered, few are more insulting than what “they” say about our rituals of...

As quarry victory shows, politics takes many forms

As quarry victory shows, politics takes many forms

Mar 25, 2020

By Greg Markley In a classic Folgers commercial, an Army sergeant gets up early to make coffee for his unit. “Top” arrives and the NCO says: “Good...

Alabama Medicaid should use every tool it has to save lives

Alabama Medicaid should use every tool it has to save lives

Mar 25, 2020

Written by Jim Carnes Special to the Opelika Observer Gov. Kay Ivey and her cabinet members deserve applause for taking swift and decisive action to...

On a hill far away

On a hill far away

Mar 18, 2020

By Bruce Green There are passages of Scripture that are profoundly rich, deep and endlessly expansive. They seem to tower over other texts and have...

Letter to the Editor – Take Time to Complete the U.S. Census

Letter to the Editor – Take Time to Complete the U.S. Census

Mar 12, 2020

To the Editor: Starting March 12, the United States will undertake a census to determine how many people live in this country. It happens every ten...

On a hill far away

I Wonder How That Happened?

Mar 12, 2020

By Bruce Green Submission is a prominent theme in 1 Peter. He speaks of the younger being submissive to the older (5:5), wives to their husbands...

On a hill far away

Thinking about reverence

Mar 5, 2020

By Bruce Green There’s something about Jesus’ cleansing of the temple that is startling. It seems out of character with Him, but it’s not. It’s...

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