Well, here I am again...a snake in the grass. This is in reference to my letter to you in your June 15 Opinion Column. Along with your News Editor,...
Visit to recent Cooper Library Board meeting perplexes local citizen
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What loyalty means to us
Loyalty: you don’t see much of it any more. Loyalty is a faithfulness to commitments or obligations. Loyalty is faithful adherence to a cause, a...
Pardon our progress
Some of you may have noticed this week’s issue of your beloved Opelika Observer seems to look a bit different. You aren’t crazy; things really are...
We can’t afford more ‘tax-free’ holidays
State of Alabama, City of Opelika, citizens of both cannot afford tax-free days/weekends. Although it does little good to keep reminding us all, we...
A salute to William White, true community journalist
Earlier this week, the local daily paper announced the retirement of one of its long-serving employees - reporter and photographer extraordinaire...
Citizen wants more stories about city issues, not more about library board
Dear Editor: I’m from the old school of the Opelika three-man commission form of government back in the 1970s and 80s. when a million dollar blunder...
Opelika resident concerned about Sen. Whatley’s Auburn University trustee amendment
During the special legislative session, I vacillated between publicly calling to task my own state senator or remaining silent while Sen. Tom...
Senator Tom Whatley: ‘Auburn trustee bill ensures stability for long term’
Imagine with me for a second that 65 percent of the starters on Auburn University’s football team were set to graduate and we didn’t have any idea...
Citizen angered by laziness caused by government entitlement programs
I have an extended family member living in Alabama who is fully able to hold a full time job except chooses not to. Why should he even look for a...