By Michelle Key Publisher With a unanimous vote, the Opelika City Council voted to suspend the 2-reading rule and voted to approve ordinances to...
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Lee County Commission approves agreement with ALDOT for storm debris removal
By Michelle Key Publisher The Lee County Commissioners approved an agreement with the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) pertaining to the...
Why do vaccine rights matter?
Special to the Opelika Observer The Nuremburg Code guarantees personal autonomy. If we allow legislature to violate our rights to medical freedom,...
Democrats reject Rogers, Collins proposal for border funding
Special to the Opelika Observer Reps. Mike RogerRep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, urged colleagues...
Jones and Sewell say expand Medicaid to save our rural hospitals
By Sen. Doug Jones and Congresswoman Terri Sewell Special to the Opelika Observer In the last eight years, 13 Alabama hospitals -- seven of which...
State Senate approves largest education budget in Alabama’s history, along with a 4% pay raise for educators
Special to the Opelika Observer Last week, by a 28-2 vote, the Alabama Senate approved a $7.1 billion Education Trust Fund for Fiscal Year 2020,...
ADOR honored by Federation of Tax administrators for innovation
Special to the Opelika Observer The Alabama Department of Revenue has been awarded a 2019 Federation of Tax Administrators (FTA) Award for the...
Report from Washington: Fixing the Border Crisis
Special to the Opelika Observer As the humanitarian and national security crisis continues unabated at our southern border, Democrats refuse to...
Grid experts decry ‘EMP-Deniers’
Special to the Opelika Observer Last week in what amounts to a lobbying arm of the utilities industry, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)...