Dear Editor: On July 19, NASA reported: “Each of the first six months of 2016 set a record as the warmest respective month globally in the modern...
Letter to the Editor: Global warming
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Letter to the Editor: Political apathy
Dear Editor: APATHY- the lack of interest in something that might ordinarily elicit interest or emotion. My grandson spent an afternoon with me last...
Letter to the editor: The importance of this election
Dear Editor, We the people of legislative District 79 will be going to the polls soon to elect a new legislator to take the seat recently lost by...
Letter to the Editor: Thank you for ‘Lending a hand’
Dear Editor, I commend you for including the "Lending a Hand" story in the June 29 issue of the Opelika Observer, and Morgan Bryce for a carefully...
Letter to the Editor: The problem with racism
Dear Editor, “There is no such thing as race. None. There is just the human race. Scientifically, anthropologically, racism is a construct – a...
An annotated version of Gov. Bentley’s ‘bona fide b.s.’
By Stephen Cooper As reported (“Gov. Robert Bentley speaks on Mike Hubbard without mentioning Hubbard”, June 11) by Paul Gattis for Al.com, Alabama...
Opinion: All the Speaker’s men and the collapse of Auburn Athletics
By John Sophocleus* Revealing Wall Street Journal articles (11/11/14 and 8/27/15) report a local contractor with connections to athletic director...
Ross joins Observer sales staff
Staff Reports Lifelong area resident Woody Ross has joined the marketing staff of the Opelika Observer.The well-known former radio...
Open letter to the fans of the Opelika Chiefs
I would like to take this opportunity on behalf of the coaches, players and staff of the Opelika Chiefs semi-pro football team to say a heartfelt...