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When I was in high school, there was a short story which my class read that had as its setting some time in the future when polling and surveys were so accurate that only one man was needed to vote to decide who would be President of the United States. He was chosen by a statistical process and requ More ...
MONTGOMERY—The decision by the U. S. Supreme Court to hear two cases relating to the public display of the Ten Commandments was no victory for Roy Moore, who was ousted as Alabama’s Chief Justice after he refused to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the State Judicial Building. No matter how t More ... Our Opinion Support United Way A number of agencies that received United Way dollars have been active in Clarke County and southwest Alabama in recent weeks in the aftermath of Hurricane Ivan. More ...
Fredda White-Cren-shaw was not just any relative looking for kinfolk. By way of Coffeeville, she found guides that connected her with me. Linda Deas and Mary Alice White both seem to have told her about the White family research and this place called Chilton where a “kindred spirit” lives. More ... Letter To The Editor Tax renewal critical for local schools Dear Editor, On behalf of the Clarke County Board of Education, our employees and most of all the students in the public schools in Clarke County, I want to ask for the support of the voters for the renewal of our Ad Valorem taxes (Property taxes) on Nov. 2. These are not new taxes but a renewal More ... Letter To The Editor Picture offends trucker’s wife Dear Editor, I’m afraid I have misjudged your intelligence. A couple of weeks ago you ran a story using the picture of the 18-wheeler that ran into the bay during the storm Ivan. More ...
But beloved 86-year-old author and storyteller says she has reasons to be hopeful for her home state too By Kathryn Tucker Windham I wish you had known my father. Born in 1866, the year after the War Between the States ended, he was the oldest of nine sons of a dirt-poor Marengo County farmer. Growing up in those hard Reconstruction times, he had little opportunity for education: he went to school only three months in his entir More ... |
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