By Bruce Green Near the end of their journey in the wilderness, Israel started complaining—again. It began with them losing their patience, and once the lid was off, everything spilled out. They spoke against Moses, God, the food the Lord had provided, the lack of...

By Justin Smith The Small Business Administration (SBA) announced last week that it had exhausted its $349 billion authorization for the Payroll Protection Program, designed to assist small businesses with maintaining payroll and certain other expenses resulting from...

By Bruce Green Almost every wilderness has some water somewhere—it’s just a matter of finding it. In the wilderness John was part of, that is the Jordan River. The river flows north to south and in many places its banks are thick with reeds that grow tall and thin....

Special to the Opelika Observer We are in the midst of a historic and unprecedented event. The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 will be one for the history books. How will history judge our response to this crisis? Certainly we as a nation and as a health system were...