Opinions Articles

Jury Punishes AU Over Free Speech Violation

CONTRIBUTED BYJOHN BANZHAF OPINION — A jury has just imposed a whopping $500,000 verdict in punitive damages, in addition to a verdict of $145,000 for compensatory damages for harm actually suffered, against Auburn University in Lee County, Alabama, for retaliating...

Big Tech Uses Journalism; Big Tech Should Pay For It

CONTRIBUTED BYJOHN GALER, PUBLISHER OF THE JOURNAL-NEWS, HILLSBORO, ILLINOISCHAIR, NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION OPINION — The powers that Google and Facebook have over economic and political power in society — especially over the news industry — has caught the...

Letter to the Editor: Keep a Killer in Prison

OPINION — To the Editor: In September 1967, Eddie Seibold deliberately murdered three children asleep in their beds in Auburn, Alabama — Lynn Sinclair (age 9), Libba Sinclair (age 18) and Mary Durant (age 9). He also wounded the mother of two of the victims, Juanita...

Letter to the Editor: National Rural Health Day

OPINION — On Nov. 17 we celebrate National Rural Health Day, a time to remember your friends and neighbors in Alabama’s rural hospitals. Alabama’s rural hospitals are an essential part of our communities. Over 12,000 people are employed by these hospitals. In many...
Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor: On January 15, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced the recent decade was the hottest ever recorded,...

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Trust God and put your name on it

An identity for all times

By Bruce Green Peter wrote to disciples who were being harassed because they had chosen to follow Jesus (4:16). There’s nothing to suggest their...

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Trust God and put your name on it

Living as exiles

By Bruce Green Peter wrote to “exiles scattered throughout” five Roman provinces. They lived on a land bridge between Europe and Asia that is known...

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Trust God and put your name on it

Too Wonderful for Words

By Bruce Green When Peter wrote to the Jewish disciples dispersed in five Roman provinces of Asia Minor (present day Turkey), he told them that even...

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