by The Observer Staff | Nov 9, 2022 | Community, Featured, Politics
BY WIL CREWS ANDMICHELLE KEY PUBLISHER’S NOTE: These results are not official. Results will be certified by election officials next week. LEE COUNTY — Residents around the state turned out to vote in Tuesday’s general election. The results from Lee County...
by The Observer Staff | Jul 17, 2014 | Politics
By Greg Markley Opelika Observer If everyone who voted in the Republican runoff election in Lee County on Tuesday took a seat at Auburn University’s Plainsman Park, there would still be some 2,300 seats unoccupied. Spurts of hard rain, the fact that Democrats had no...
by The Observer Staff | Jul 10, 2014 | Politics
By Greg Markley Opelika Observer The late U.S. Sen. Arthur Vandenberg once said that “Partisan politics must stop at the water’s edge.” He meant that in international matters, partisanship must be set aside. In that vein, partisan politics quickly stops at the...
by The Observer Staff | Jun 6, 2014 | Politics
By Greg Markley Opelika Observer Most Lee County legislators were easily renominated on Tuesday. The smallest margin was for first-term State Sen. Tom Whatley (District 27). He defeated Andy Carter by 53 percent to 47 percent. Born on a dairy farm near Opelika,...
by The Observer Staff | Jun 2, 2014 | Politics
By Greg Markley Opelika Observer With the 2014 Alabama primaries four days away, voters deciding whether their solitary vote might matter can draw lessons from the 2008 U.S. Senate race in Minnesota. There, Democrat Al Franken unseated Republican Norm Coleman by just...
