I worked at Landmark Park for almost 9 years. I managed the old Martin Drug Store that was in Enterprise for 85 years. The drug store is the first stop for folks visiting the park. I saw almost every one of the guests. I talked to the ones who wanted to talk. I listened, like a bartender, fr…
Long before I ever considered writing as a vocation, I was a reader. I cut my teeth on Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are.” I studied P.D. Eastman’s seminal “Go, Dog, Go,” with its dark themes about class struggle and responsibility. From the shelves of the Houston-Love Memorial Lib…
All week long I have had the feeling that I’d forgotten something important. I’ve run through lists of things I needed to have done, calculated birthdays, looked to make sure I didn’t have any outstanding bills, checked to see that the stove wasn’t on. Everything seemed to be in order. So wh…
Supreme Court had no choice but to knock down the loan reduction program
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Even though it is not an election year, the Alabama political pot is heating up and beginning to boil as we celebrate the 4th of July, and the summer heat settles into the Heart of Dixie.
Commentary: Increasing polarization is behind the erosion of national pride.
A bipartisan bill introduced by Sens. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., would close several loopholes identified by The Washington Post in an investigative series published last fall. The investigation found hundreds of retired U.S. military officers taking lucrative jobs advising foreign governments known for human rights atrocities and political repression. The Retired Officers Conflict of Interest Act would require public reporting about who is working on behalf of which foreign governments and for how much.
In celebration of the United States’ birthday, here are five surprising facts about the nation’s founding document:
The state of the republic is precarious. But I am hopeful that democracy will prevail because it is resilient.
More Americans over the last several decades have abandoned their faith — usually Christianity — to join the ranks of the non-religious. This includes people who describe themselves as atheists, agnostics or “nothing in particular.”
I was reading the New York Times a week or so ago and came across an article by a sportswriter, Christopher Clarey, with an intriguing headline: “Thousands of Bylines to His Name, and One that’s Not.” Since bylines have been my wheelhouse for 40 years, I clicked on the link to read the story…
The death of a pregnant woman can only be a tragedy. But the loss of 2016 Olympic medalist Tori Bowie, a Mississippi native who died in May from childbirth complications, also serves as a reminder that America’s maternal mortality rate is far too high.
Alex Anastasio voted for Donald Trump for president twice, attended Trump rallies, organized events for him and placed signs in front of her home in Pennsylvania. And she was deeply hopeful in the early days following the 2020 election that once all of the votes were counted, he would serve a second term -- so hopeful, indeed, that she was initially involved in a voter recount effort in support of that.
Watch out for China. This nuclearized, troop-laden, threatening, ultra-aggressive military monster has just come up with another warning of evil intent. It is negotiating with Cuba about a joint military training and enhanced intelligence center 100 miles from Florida. The center would no doubt host vast numbers of China’s 2 million-plus active troops as combat readiness grows and U.S. military secrets become a reading pleasure.
During the failed August 1991 putsch in Russia, the good guys were reformers Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. The bad guys were an incompetent claque of the military and KGB within the Politburo, and the rebellion fizzled when Yeltsin climbed on that tank in Moscow. The Kremlin’s nukes were kept secure, and the world caught its breath. The once all-powerful Soviet Union then peacefully flickered out of existence.
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My thoughts go out to their loved ones. Sincerely. But how sad should we feel about their deaths?
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie once was a Republican star. His Jersey tough talk and handling of Superstorm Sandy helped him coast to reelection in a blue state.
Like many people, I was glued to the news for much of Saturday, watching what seemed, at least for a moment, to be the first stages of a coup d'etat -- and it still might be. The only thing we know for certain is that if this is the beginning of the end of Vladimir Putin's rule, that story won't begin with the mutinous mercenary warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin leading an armored column of troops, guns a-blazing, into Moscow.
A rattled Vladimir Putin’s political end is approaching. All that really matters now is whether it comes sooner or later.
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” So said Abraham Lincoln in his “House Divided” speech, given 165 years ago.
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6 gift ideas for the outdoorsy person in your life
Here are 10 great gift ideas that are sure to please everyone on your list.
The Justice Department must be more transparent about investigation
CNN's Dana Bash talks to Retired General and former CIA Director David Petraeus about his thoughts on the state of Russian President Vladimir Putin following the failed Wagner insurrection.
I was having a discussion with a couple of guys the other day, and we were recalling some other fellows we hadn’t seen in a while. Or perhaps I should say that we were attempting to recall.
DC: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says special counsel may be needed in Hunter Biden probe
The first question asked when a baby is born is their gender. That question is always binary — a boy or a girl.
What do 9-year-olds need to know about sexual activity or gender fluidity? For most parents, the answer is, “Whatever I choose to tell them at home.”
Employees unhappy over orders to return to the office are evidently tearing their garments with grief. But they may need the garments to keep their current employment, and we're not talking about pajamas.
Congress is considering the massive Farm Bill, legislation that is reauthorized every five years. The bill includes federal assistance for low-income families such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to help low-income families buy food.
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