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January Proclaimed as Human Trafficking Month

BY MICHELLE KEY MICHELLE@OPELIKAOBSERVER.COM OPELIKA — The Opelika City Council and Opelika Mayor Gary Fuller issued a proclamation declaring January 2023 as Human Trafficking Awareness Month during its meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 3. The proclamation reads as follows:...

Tuberville’s Second Bill Becomes Law Law corrects an error preventing dependents from receiving education benefits

CONTRIBUTED BYHANNAH EDDINS DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY FOR SEN. TOMMY TUBERVILLE ALABAMA  — U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-AL) bill to streamline post-9/11 GI Bill benefits was signed into law in December by President Joe Biden, marking the senator’s second piece of...

Omicron, Loamy and More Words of the Year 2022: Part Two

OPINION — In early December 1987, I was stationed at Fort McPherson, Georgia, as an enlisted leader with a small military history unit. An Army major approved a memorandum on the spot. When he gave it to me, I saw it read “Request for Christmas” with the vital word...

Inside the Statehouse

Richard Shelby Coming Home  OPINION — Our iconic senior United States senator, Richard Shelby, will walk out of the Senate chambers in Washington, D.C., next week and come home to retirement in Tuscaloosa. History will reveal Shelby as Alabama’s greatest U.S....
No Curbside Voting in Alabama

No Curbside Voting in Alabama

Contributed by the Officeof the Attorney General Attorney General Steve Marshall announced that the U.S. Supreme Court granted the state of...

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No Curbside Voting in Alabama

Inside the Statehouse

By Steve Flowers Our 2020 presidential election is less than two weeks away. We Americans will either elect Republican Donald Trump for another...

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