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Beth Chapman: Was ‘justice’ really served?

Beth Chapman -
I’ll take the names out of it so it’s not so personal. Last week the state executed a man who killed his ex-girlfriend in...

Dr. Daniel Sutter: In defense of fossil fuels

Dr. Daniel Sutter -
Governments are promising to end fossil fuel use by 2050 or sooner. Fossil Future by Alex Epstein, founder of the Center for Industrial Progress,...

Sunday Reflections: A bag with holes

Michael J. Brooks -
Best-selling author James Patterson in his new autobiography told about being on the “Oprah” show in Chicago. He and his co-writer came to promote...

Flowers: 1962 governor’s race

Steve Flowers -
It is hard to believe it has been 60 years since George Wallace’s first victorious race for governor. Let’s go down memory lane and...

Beth Chapman: Disability Pride Month

Beth Chapman -
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

Alabama Big 10 Mayors -
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

U.S. Rep. Jerry Carl -
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

Dr. Daniel Sutter -
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?

Michael J. Brooks -
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

Steve Flowers -
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

Hunter Williams -
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

U.S. Rep. Jerry Carl -
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

Beth Chapman -
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

Dr. Daniel Sutter -
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?

Michael J. Brooks -
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

Steve Flowers -
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

Will Sellers -
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

U.S. Rep. Jerry Carl -
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

Dr. Daniel Sutter -
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

Michael J. Brooks -
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

Steve Flowers -
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

John Merrill -
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

U.S. Rep. Jerry Carl -
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

State Rep. Tracy Estes -
As each of those brave souls lifted the quill and placed his signature upon the document known as the Declaration of Independence, our Founding...
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