By GREG MARKLEY An old maxim is “Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face.” That may be what the 34% of Alabamians not vaccinated for COVID virus (as of Aug. 3) is doing. After all, the state motto is “We dare defend our rights.” Translated into Latin it is:...

CONTRIBUTED BY THE OFFICE OF ALABAMA SECRETARY OF STATE — JOHN MERRILL Agrowing number of left-leaning political activists and thinkers are proposing that Democrats should legalize non-citizen voting in a purely political power grab. In America, voting is one of our...

Aied Harris from Montgomery was the guest speaker at this years Non-Violence Peace Rally and March held in the Samford Community in Opelika last weekend. Harris lost two of her children to violence. One this last September when a man just started shooting at him at a...

CONTRIBUTED BY THE CITY OF OPELIKA                    The city of Opelika congratulates Stephen Dawe of the Opelika IT Department or recently completing his Doctorate in Management Information Systems from Auburn University. Dawe was able to complete this degree with...