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Beth Chapman: Disability Pride Month
July is Disability Pride Month. It’s been 32 years since the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed to prohibit discrimination against people with...
Alabama big 10 mayors: Aniah’s Law is key to preventing future tragedies
Violent criminals should be incarcerated, not walking free in our communities and on our streets. Unfortunately, that is the case in our state all...
Carl: Biden’s immigration crisis continues
Last week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reported 207,416 migrant encounters at our southern border last month, which makes it the worst June...
Dr. Daniel Sutter: Back to normal for the FDA
Operation Warp Speed demonstrated that vaccine development need not occur on a decadal time scale. Americans got vaccines in less than 12 months because...
Sunday Reflections: Is compromise always a bad thing?
I found former Congressman John Boehner’s new book at our library and finished it a few weeks ago. It was interesting to learn more...
Steve Flowers: State legislature will remain super majority Republican
The Alabama Legislature will remain super majority Republican for the next quadrennium. As the dust settles from the May/June party primaries, there have been...
Birmingham City Councilman Hunter Williams: Those 11 days in July changed us forever
One of the images that stick out in my mind when I reflect on the World Games is how welcoming our city was to...
Carl: Misplaced priorities
Last week, Democrats refused to consider any legislation to lower gas prices, reign in inflation, or address any of the serious domestic problems facing...
Beth Chapman: Prevention is the best solution
I’m naïve, but I’d like to think people on both sides of the abortion issue would like for there to never need to be...
Dr. Daniel Sutter: Making sense of woke business
Major League Baseball’s moving the 2021 All-Star Game from Atlanta over Georgia’s new voting law symbolizes businesses’ new willingness to take sides on political...
Sunday Reflections: Does God care what we wear?
A college student applied for the music position in our church. She was a good musician and had a pleasant personality. One Sunday she...
Steve Flowers: Women and young folks prevail in 2022
In my observations of Alabama politics, every election year brings an underlying election year surprise or two. The underlying prevailing theme emerging from the...
Justice Will Sellers: The quest for stable government
Ninety years ago, Portugal was the poster child for instability. New governments came and went roughly every six months. Change seemed the only constant,...
Carl: Fighting for a strong national defense
Every year, the president lays out a budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year. I wrote earlier this year how disappointed I was in...
Dr. Daniel Sutter: West Virginia versus the EPA raises a major question
In one of the final decisions of a momentous term, the Supreme Court halted the replacement of coal-fired power plants in West Virginia v....
Sunday Reflections: A yellow ribbon
Singer Tony Orlando recorded “Tie A Yellow Ribbon” in 1973, the story of a man after release from prison. He tells his sweetheart to...
Flowers: Katie Britt won the Senate race the old fashioned way
Katie Britt won the Republican Senate primary the old fashioned way. She got out and worked for it and earned it and, folks, she...
Secretary of State Merrill addresses redistricting controversies
Recently, the implementation of the newly drawn state legislative district lines has become a point of conversation in large part due to a lack...
U.S. Rep. Jerry Carl: Independence Day
Last year as we entered Independence Day Weekend, the Biden White House bragged that the cost of an average family’s 4th of July cookout...
Celebrate freedom with a prayer: America is under attack from within
As each of those brave souls lifted the quill and placed his signature upon the document known as the Declaration of Independence, our Founding...
Dr. Daniel Sutter: Celebrating national unity?
We celebrate America on the Fourth of July. But do Americans today still respect each other enough to constitute a functioning country? Responses to...
Sunday Reflections: The sound of silence
Simon and Garfunkel recorded “The Sound Of Silence” in 1964, later popularized in the 1967 film, “The Graduate.” Simon explained that he retreated to...
Steve Flowers: Bill Baxley has a place in Alabama history
The 1970 governor’s race between George Wallace and Albert Brewer overshadowed every other political race in the state that year. However, one of Alabama’s...
Guest: 4 myths that can cost you your sight this July 4
Every year, Americans – often youngsters – suffer serious eye injuries from fireworks on the Fourth of July. People like teenager Jameson Lamb, robbed...