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Election reflections
Another primary season has come and gone, and we’re left sitting here sifting through the returns trying to figure out what it all means. Well ......
Poorly graded bell curve
It has often been said that you can’t un-ring a bell. That is true. What you can do is ring another bell and hope someone out there will listen....
Election workers must continue to act, be ‘above suspicion’
When Julius Caesar divorced his wife, Pompeia, he was asked why. Supposedly he replied that Pompeia was suspected of some offense, and that the...
A Word from the Editor – Citizen Soldiers
When I was a young man I was in the National Guard. Actually I was in two National Guards: the Alabama Guard and the Maryland Guard. I liked them...
Competition good for democracy
Alabama’s state primary elections are now less than a month away, and, for the most part, we see a slate of candidates that will drift into the...
Searching for Opelika’s “Rosies”
How many times have you read or heard about something and thought, “Darn, why didn’t I think of that!” or, worst still, “Why didn’t I do something...
Dangerous debt limit? No, not here
Last week, we used an old, tried and true journalistic device: raising a question in a headline that we proceeded to answer, or at least attempted...
‘Piddle, twiddle and resolve’
Sherman Edwards may have been penning song lyrics about the enmity in the Second Continental Congress when he wrote these lines, but we think those...