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December 14, 2008
Paul Davis: AU president, former coach, dinner and cheer
There were no Scrooges at the Gogues Thursday night. Boy, the Auburn University president and his lady sure know how to throw a Christmas party.
December 08, 2008
Paul Davis: Believe what you will, but Tubs was fired
Auburn football coach Tommy Tuberville, one of the most successful coaches in the history of Auburn University, was fired, resigned, has taken a leave of absence, has gone duck hunting in Arkansas, has been executed, is an enemy combatant being held at Gitmo, is on sabbatical at Lake Martin, or is in an underground bunker at an undisclosed location, according to (you may choose more than one) The Birmingham News, The Tuscaloosa News, The Opelika-Auburn News, ESPN, the Paul Finebaum Show, blogthis.com and a host of other reliable sources.
December 01, 2008
Paul Davis: With family, who could ask for more?
Merry Christmas and a Scary New Year. All those people who are supposed to know tell us the New Year will be worse than the old year.
November 29, 2008
With family, what else is there?
Merry Christmas and a Scary New Year.
November 24, 2008
Paul Davis: Bailing out auto industry a dangerous road
How did we come to this? The American automobile industry is dying. The Big Three – General Motors, Ford and Chrysler are just a crankshaft and an SUV away from going belly up. I can’t quite fathom any of this. My generation accepted the mantra that what’s good for General Motors is good for America.
November 03, 2008
Paul Davis: Auburn University ... sold to the highest bidder
Going once, going twice, going three times! Sold. For 25 million dollars
October 27, 2008
Paul Davis: National election nightmare nearing an end
Just nine more days, count ‘em, until our national nightmare is over, or, perhaps, just beginning. We have the (pick one) duty, right, obligation, chore, difficult task, falling on our own sword, or playing Russian roulette with a six-shooter which is loaded with six bullets.
October 20, 2008
Paul Davis: Tuskegee Airmen, role models, earn deserved respect
Those lumbering U.S. World War II B-17 bombers, their pregnant bellies filled with 500-pound bombs, were easy targets for the German Luftwaffe fighters, determined to shoot them from the sky before they would unleash those weapons on German troops, factories and command centers.
October 13, 2008
Paul Davis: Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and today’s politicians
I wish we could just skip November’s election and just head straight into Christmas, but I hear that has been postponed. The only trickle down that most Americans are feeling is being caused by wetting their pants as they watch their retirement incomes and life savings sink into a political black hole.
September 29, 2008
Paul Davis: Government’s debt passed on to our grandchildren
Marriage is the union between a man and a woman, thus saith the Lord. I wonder how the shotgun marriage between Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is going to work out.
September 08, 2008
Paul Davis: Gubernatorial candidate list taking shape
The next thing on the agenda is the election of a president to lead the United States of America, but it’s hard to ignore the number of folks lining up for the race to be chief executive officer of Alabama.
September 02, 2008
Paul Davis: Robbing the public trust a serious offense
State Rep. Sue Schmitz, D-Toney, represents Madison County in the Alabama legislature. She has worked for years as a schoolteacher, is married and the mother of three children.
August 18, 2008
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.
August 11, 2008
Paul Davis: Bryce Hospital decision at crossroads
After months of often testy discussion and debate and with negotiations going on at the highest levels of state government, the University of Alabama, under heavy pressure from preservationists and mental health advocates, has backed away from its tough stand in opposition to placing Tuscaloosa’s Bryce Hospital on the highest level of national historic recognition.
August 04, 2008
Paul Davis: Newspapers not dying, not yet
Are newspapers in America dying? I keep hearing that on an almost daily basis. Newspapers are morphing. Large news-papers, particularly those owned by major newspaper chains are hurting. A few are attempting suicide.
July 28, 2008
Paul Davis: Marriage survives illness, other maladies
I’m ready to go back to school. After a grand start, summer has become rather boring. You agree? I even had a granddaughter, Janie, stop by and say that for the first time in her life, she is looking forward to going back to school. Boring, boring summer. Nothing to do.
June 23, 2008
Paul Davis: Harbert nomination to AU Board of Trustees in doubt
Why was the nomination of Birmingham billionaire Raymond Harbert to the Auburn University Board of Trustees unceremoniously rejected by Sen. Myron Penn at the close of the recently completed session of the Alabama legislature?
June 09, 2008
Paul Davis: Combing through Miss Windham’s favorite tunes
We were asked, kindly, by Miss Windham to play the soprano line, to stay in the high, female octave and to contribute with gusto.
May 12, 2008
Paul Davis: Choice of new AU trustee raises old eyebrows
It was a first-class, black-tie affair. The 1856 banquet in the Grand Ballroom of the Auburn Hotel and Conference Center. Raymond Harbert walked up and started a conversation with Ralph Jordan, son of the legendary former Auburn football coach.
March 03, 2008
Paul Davis: Tuberville leads Auburn the right way
Pity poor Nick Savior — oops — Nick Saban. He gets $4 million per year to coach the Alabama Crimson Tide, plus four billion headaches.
February 25, 2008
Paul Davis: Once-thriving Cuba hasn’t changed in many years
It has always fascinated me that it’s a longer trip from Auburn to the Atlanta airport than from Miami to Cuba. Yet Cuba seems to be millions of miles away from the world that we know, with its socialist
government and dictatorial rule.
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