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Our Opinions Highway priorities One of the long and persistent problems of southwest Alabama is the lack of adequate highways and other infrastructure. A 1941 Alabama highway map showed that the problem existed even then. Red lines indicated paved highways on the map and blue and dotted blue lines were unpaved roads. More ... Our Opinions At last, a coach Salaries for coaches and athletes, Maybe now the world will tilt back to its normal axis: The University of Alabama has a new football coach. Assuredly, Nick Saban, wooed away from the Miami Dolphins, is the best in the business. At least his salary is at $4 million a year or $32 million plus for ... More ... Our Opinions Comings and goings It has been hard to keep up with the changing of the guard in local offices over the last few weeks. Clarke County and its neighbors are seeing big turnovers as many longtime elected officials are retiring- most of their own doing, but some by the voters. More ... Our Opinions Amazing deed Just when we think we are losing all confidence in our fellowman, someone like Wesley Autrey of New York comes along to booster us. Autrey was standing on a New York subway platform with his two young daughters when he saw a man suffer some kind of medical distress and fall onto the tracks of an o... More ... Our Opinions Changes in Congress The Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives got off to a good start under its first-ever female speaker, Nancy Pelosi of California last week. Tough new ethics rules bars House members from accepting gifts from lobbyists, including free or reimbursed plane trips. More ...
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'Outhouse Inauguration' Bob Ingram You might think that after attending or covering every gubernatorial inauguration in Alabama since 1950 that on the eve of yet another one I would be full of stories to tell of those past events. A few highlights stick out, of course, but very few. More ...
Thanks for the memories At the end of a year, the big newspapers, magazines and TV shows all reflect on the deaths of the famous and influential over the past year. Last week, The Democrat remembered those whose obituaries we published in 2006. We had been keeping monthly lists since last January and I had no idea that ... More ...
Ray Sheffield was first elected sheriff in 1970 and this family photograph ran in a campaign ad in The Democrat that year. From left are Randy Sheffield, Ray Sheffield, Jane Sheffield holding baby Tony, and Tammy Sheffield, now Tammy Cross. More ... From Our Files 79 years ago Dr. C. A. Cary, state veterinarian, and E. A. Gaston, federal inspector sent word to county commissioners by Dr. R. E. Jackson, inspector in charge of tick eradication in Alabama that the county must resume the dipping of cattle. Commissioners, "for reasons they deemed good and suffi... More ...
Big scandal breaking in junior college system Steve Flowers George Wallace was a product of rural Alabama and came of age during the Great Depression. Alabamians who knew the Depression days are dwindling every year, much like our treasured World War II Veterans. Tom Brokaw was right when he called them the "Greatest Generation." They made our country great... More ... Southwest Alabama one big community; should work as one By Larry Lee Thomas Friedman's widely acclaimed book "The World Is Flat" details the series of events over the last two decades that have remarkably changed the global supply chain for services and manufacturing. More ... |
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