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Letter to the Editor: Shelby’s Final Christmas “Gift” to Taxpayers

CONTRIBUTED BY DREW WHITE OPINION — In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, Senate appropriators finally released the text of a gargantuan 4,155-page omnibus spending bill in a last-minute bid to gouge taxpayers, reward K Street allies and further expand the reach...

Who Makes Sure My Doctor is Competent?

CONTRIBUTED BY MARK H. LEQUIRE, M.D. OPINION — Who ensures the competency of my doctor? It’s an excellent question, and a recent U.S. Supreme Court case of two physicians convicted of overprescribing pain medications makes it even more important. In Alabama,...

Top-Heavy Government

CONTRIBUTED BY PHIL WILLIAMS OPINION — I was pumping gas at a local station near an interstate offramp once and thought I heard a bomb go off. It reminded me of the sound of a car bomb that went off next to my convoy in Baghdad. It was that loud. It turns out it was...

Letter to the Editor:

Hugh Freeze Hire Dear editor, AU Athletics submitted a press release to the Nov. 30th “Opelika Observer”, which announced Hugh Freeze as the new Auburn University head coach. The release proved as public relations puffery, but woeful as reporting. For example, several...

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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