Opinion

The 2012 Regular Session of the Legislature begins this week. The Republican majority House and Senate produced a prolific amount of conservative legi...

Alabama Senator Shadrack McGill created quite a stir this week when he seemingly said that teachers shouldn’t receive pay raises because their pay sho...

Excuse me while I go get my soapbox to stand on. Now, let me say this in perfectly clear English: emergency vehicles with lights on and/or sirens soun...

I suffer from what I can best describe as insomnia. Part of the problem is my waking up late on some mornings, especially on the weekends. This means ...

Believe it or not the 2012 election season is upon us. The legislature, in a cost-savings measure last year, moved our primaries up to March 13. Our p...

Things are most certainly different today than they were 50 years ago in terms of the way people treat one another, but I’ve noticed recently that thi...

There is no great secret to improving education in Alabama. We have an impressive track record of raising student achievement by developing our own pr...

I was watching the NFL playoff divisional games two weekends ago. The Ravens’ stadium music guy played Machinehead by Bush, Even Flow by Pearl Jam and...

The second round of the gambling corruption trial begins this Monday in Federal Court in Montgomery. Last year’s first trial ended in a victory for al...

Everyone has pet peeves — those little things that drive you nuts. Those things that make you want to scream or simply shake your head in disgust. As ...