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...

By Bruce Green The wilderness is a humbling place. You don’t “impose your will upon it”- you learn how to survive it. Each day brings forth its own challenges that can quickly turn into dangers for those who are arrogant or unprepared. To survive, you must learn to be...