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January 09, 2009
Joe McAdory: No New Year’s resolutions, just wishes
It’s time the leaders in our state and nation worked with one another to get things accomplished.
December 19, 2008
Joe McAdory: Time for legislators to earn that raise
A reader called this afternoon and asked if I could explain why Alabama legislators were willing to give themselves a 61 percent pay raise when money for Alabama schools was being sliced to shreds.
December 12, 2008
Joe McAdory: Real trees bring life to Christmas
I love Christmas trees. I love the way they smell. I love the way they feel. I love what they stand for. I love the way they brighten a room during the holidays, and in my case, sometimes until March.
December 08, 2008
Joe McAdory: Education dollars about to get tight
We value education. We must, for it holds the key to our children’s futures.
November 14, 2008
Joe McAdory column: Few are more determined
Spence McCracken leaned back in his office chair and talked about his late father. He spoke of things like determination, the will to win and hard work … traits that were obviously passed down.
November 07, 2008
Joe McAdory: Obama’s opponent now himself
Who’s going to run against Barack Obama in 2012? That’s what I was asked just hours after Obama’s historic victory Tuesday night.
October 31, 2008
Joe McAdory: Spring Villa once scared me to death
My heart pounded. My head broke out into a sweat. I’d never been more frightened in my life.
October 10, 2008
Joe McAdory: My old Trash 80 was a true treasure
What is one man’s Trash 80 is another man’s treasure. Ah yes … the old, drab Trash 80, otherwise known as the Radio Shack TRS 80. It was not Internet-capable. You couldn’t play Solitaire on it. You couldn’t download pictures or play tunes. All you could do was write and save Word document files. But for a man whose living depended on writing and saving Word document files, this little machine was a workhorse.
October 03, 2008
Joe McAdory: Leaders in D.C. put party above country
It’s no wonder our bumbling leaders in Washington can’t get things done. They don’t have answers. They don’t have accountability. All they have is blame.
September 19, 2008
Joe McAdory: 1996 Auburn-LSU football game a real barnburner
Carl Stephens, Jordan-Hare Stadium’s venerable public address announcer bellowed to the crowd, “Tonight’s attendance, 85,214.” The sports writer to my right in the stadium’s press box turned to me and said, “Wow, that’s the largest number of people to ever watch a fire in the state of Alabama.”
September 11, 2008
Joe McAdory: Democracy, heroism rule in face of death
Horror. Terror. Absolute fear. Despair. Then somehow, bravery — the fighting spirit this nation was founded on.
August 15, 2008
Joe McAdory: ‘Somebody knows something’
I wonder what James Heard’s murderer is doing today. Whoever it is has freedom.
July 30, 2008
Joe McAdory: State trooper becomes man’s ‘guardian angel’
His Nissan Altima barreled down Alabama Highway 165 in excess of 60 miles per hour, the left side of his body went numb and he had difficulty seeing. His mind and heart racing, hands struggling to grip the steering wheel, pine trees whizzing by on this early July evening, Daniel Diaz was in dire straits.
July 25, 2008
Hard news in demand, like it or not
It gives me no great pleasure to knock on a person’s door, tell them I’m with the newspaper and would like to speak with them about their precious son who was shot to death the day before.
July 21, 2008
Joe McAdory: Desperate times calling for desperate crimes
After spending a few days vacationing out of town, I couldn’t help but wonder how things were going back at the ’ol homestead in east Alabama. That’s much easier to do that these days, compliments of the World Wide Web and our newspaper’s Web page, http://www.oanow.com
July 11, 2008
Joe McAdory: Charred wire teaches lesson in life
I have a wire. It’s gray, about three inches long, perfectly cut on one end and burned on the other.
June 29, 2008
Joe McAdory: Saw palmetto doesn’t fight the sands of time
If turning 40 means I’m over the hill — as black balloons might soon suggest — then maybe life’s downhill slope will be less taxing.
June 06, 2008
Joe McAdory: General election has the firepower to bring voters out
Poll workers informed me I was the 49th person to enter my precinct Tuesday and grab a ballot, … and that was at 5 o’clock.
May 30, 2008
Joe McAdory: Dancer had no business getting into automobile
Get this – a woman who works as a dancer at a Birmingham strip club alleges that her employer is to blame for an alcohol-related accident she had attempting to drive home.
In fact, she’s filing suit.
May 23, 2008
Joe McAdory: Legislators should go stand in the corner
What if Mrs. Wilder didn’t care? What if she didn’t inspire students to complete SRA reading assignments and learn to read faster — opening the imagination of third-graders?
May 02, 2008
Joe McAdory: Small towns still the heart of America
Pillows were stuffed with goose feathers. A terrycloth bathrobe hung in the closet of my metropolitan high-rise hotel. An unopened bottle of Perrier sat on the nightstand beside a gold-plated lamp activated by touch.
April 08, 2008
Joe McAdory: Satan flipped me off and broke my arm
Planted on an emergency room hospital bed, I fought and squirmed and gave any responding personnel a battle they didn’t bargain for. They wanted to give me a shot, or two, in the arm. I refused and fought back with any functioning limb available.
March 31, 2008
Joe McAdory: Poll says citizens happy with state, not Legislature
A majority of Alabamians are satisfied with the overall direction of the state. A new poll said so.
March 28, 2008
Joe McAdory: Bill could have created more safety problems
Making it legal for students and faculty members to bring firearms on campus could cause more problems than the one they are trying to solve.
March 14, 2008
Joe McAdory: Great American war rages right here at home
We are a nation at war. At work. In our homes. On the streets. On television. On the radio.
March 07, 2008
Joe McAdory: Spend more time with your pet
He pranced from one side of the yard to the other, balancing a large two-by-four in his mouth. Prince firmly gripped the wood with his teeth and held his head high. It was obvious, that block of wood was pretty darn important to him and he wanted the world to know it.
February 19, 2008
I’m going to miss my old Pontiac, even with its multiple malfunctions
My windshield wipers work only when the left turn signal is displayed. The lock to the driver’s side door is broken. A crack zigzags its way across my windshield. Neither the cruise control nor alarm has worked for five years.
February 08, 2008
Joe McAdory: Primaries drew some racial lines in state
Would you vote for or against a presidential candidate because of the color of his or her skin?
February 01, 2008
Joe McAdory: Pride burned Challenger, Columbia
Noon was approaching, and the sun shone majestically, but the central Florida sky was never darker.
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