‘Don’t drink and drive’ isn’t that confusing, is it?
For years, we’ve heard the same message: “Don’t drink and drive.” It’s alarming and discouraging, however, that so many of today’s drivers fail to heed that message.
Fuller deserves 4 more years
The last four years has seen two central themes in Opelika: industrial growth and privatization of public works. One is a sign of prosperity. The other is a sign of controversy.
Editorial: Cannon, Lazenby bring clout to city council
Opelika City Council Endorsements: Wards 3 and 5
Jones, Menefee best choices for Opelika Wards 1, 2
For 13 years, Patsy Jones has been a dissenting voice on the Opelika City Council, and with Harris leaving office, it’s important we have someone on the council that is willing to take a stand and ask questions. Jones’ presence on the council has always given it a good sense of checks and balances. When questions are to be raised on decisions affecting the citizens of Opelika, Jones historically does her best to make sure due process is followed.
Area high school bands deserve attention
Let’s show our local high school marching bands some love.
Letter: Barbara R. Patton not same as former Opelika mayor
My name is Barbara R. Patton. I was born and raised in Opelika, and I am a staunch supporter of Mayor Gary Fuller.
Letter: Meadows is best candidate for Opelika mayor
I want to make it perfectly clear that I am endorsing Rainer Meadows as a candidate for Mayor. After an advertisement that ran Sunday, I have had a number of calls from people stating that they were surprised that I had changed my mind. That is not the case.
Nation defends the innocent, but allows choice for abortion
My husband is an avid “letters to the editor” writer. The letter he last submitted ran in Saturday’s paper and was titled, “Glad to live in a nation where women have choice to give birth.”
I would just like to say that I have seen the grief that comes with abortion. I myself have not had one, nor will I ever have one.
Letter: Right to life doesn’t include right to exist in another’s body
Anita Bledsoe (Aug. 8) argues that if we’re glad we’re alive, then we logically ought to oppose abortion, since we wouldn’t be alive if our mothers had chosen abortion.
Letter to editor: Glad to live in nation where women have choice to give birth
Every afternoon at work, I look forward to going home to see my 9-month-old daughter. She has beautiful blue eyes and a smile straight off the Gerber bottle. My wife and I were very excited when we found out we were having a baby. She purchased a book titled, “What to Expect When You Are Expecting.”
Bill Robinson: Why didn’t Helen Keller return?
At 19 months, Helen Keller was stricken with an illness that left her deaf and blind. When Anne Masefield Sullivan wasn’t brought to Helen’s home in Tuscumbia on March 3, 1887, a new world was slowly opened to the little girl.
Bob Mount: Indigo snake important to keep around
Among the wide variety of subjects discussed and debated by the Order of Geezers, A.K.A. the Geneva Street Think Tank, are snakes. A few, Bo Torbert for example, are not snake enthusiasts but tolerate their presence on rural property they own.
Bob Sanders: Gas shortages nothing new
Gas problems are nothing new. Some of us remember the War, when gas was rationed and you could buy only what your A, B or C sticker allowed. As we much later found out, there was no shortage of gas, we had it to burn. Rubber was the stuff in short supply.
Brittany Branyon: I’m not as liberal as I thought
The attempt I made to bring the issue of progressives being misunderstood came back to bite me.
Desmond Scaife: Clouds roll in, roll out, just like issues of everyday life
The “congressional six-year-old” said to me, “those are stratus clouds!” I was not paying much attention to her at that time so I asked her to repeat what she said. She answered with some irritation, “those are stratus clouds!”
Jennifer Foster: Conventions, protesters and peaceful assembly
The conventions are right around the corner, and you know what that means: Long-winded speeches with painfully predictable sound bites. Goofy pins and hats that look more at home in the Disney costume collection. The hackneyed balloon-and-confetti drop.
Joe McAdory: ‘Somebody knows something’
I wonder what James Heard’s murderer is doing today. Whoever it is has freedom.
Lisa Brouillette: Politics plays part in planning
A few months back, another columnist in this paper made the comment “there is no politics in planning.” Recent ap-pointments to the Auburn and Lee County planning commissions alone show the reverse is true – the planning process is full of politics.
Malcolm Cutchins: Media distorts Obama’s poor TV performance
Presidential nominee Barack Obama did so poorly in the Presidential Forum at Saddleback Church over the weekend that his media friends have been in a frenzy ever since to distort coverage of the event.
Mary Belk: Don’t fiddle with Auburn’s music program
I’ve heard it said that life is what’s happening while you’re making other plans. And Shakespeare had something to say about the best-laid plans of mice and men going astray. I’m not up on the plans of mice, but I do know that some of the best things in my life just sort of happened.
Paul Davis: Barron is what’s wrong with government
One of the most fascinating things is the way the English language and our spelling and use of words continue to evolve. Computers have brought us a geek language and teenagers have brought us a freak language.
Mike Rogers: Economy taxing on our laborers
With Labor Day around the corner, many hard working folks across East Alabama are looking forward to a day of rest.
Mike Hubbard: National convention means busy week ahead
During the first week of September, the Republican National Committee will hold its convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn., for the purpose of nominating our choice for president and vice president of the United States.
testJoe Turnham: Chance to nominate president an awesome obligation
No experience or responsibility as party chairman can compare with the awesome obligation to coordinate a state’s participation in selecting a nominee for the Presidency of the United States.
Barbara Patton: Special fundraiser around the corner
Just around the corner lies a special fundraiser! Special because it benefits the renovation and transformation of the Miriam S. Brown School into a Community Cultural and Small Conference Center.
Velinda Wheeles: Main Street Opelika holds its own
‘The grass is always greener on the other side.’ That is true in some instances, but I have figured out that sometimes you have to venture out and find that maybe what you are doing is OK, that there is always room for improvement and you should be open to change. Are you wondering where I am going with this?
