Opportunity knocking
      Now that all the back-patting and congratulating on securing the gigantic ThyssenKrupp steel mill for southwest Alabama has been done (and it is well deserved we hasten to add), what do the individual counties and municipalities do to make sure they feel the impact of this ne...
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Give Gov. Riley a plane
      Rep. Marc Keahey may mean well in questioning Gov. Riley's use of state aircraft. But the freshman Grove Hill legislator's timing isn't the best. Coming right on the heels of Keahey's introduction of a legislative bill to limit the governor's and other officials' use of the ...
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Letter to the Editor
Honoring our vets
      Dear Editor: We desperately need your help in locating and informing Alabama veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan about a one-of-a-kind, state sponsored ceremony honoring them for their service.
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Alabama Scene
Popping corks in SW Ala.
Bob Ingram
      There is simply no way to overstate the significance of the decision of German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp to locate its $3 billion plant in Mobile County.
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Editor's Notes
Riding the paper bus
Jim Cox
      A couple of weeks ago Ross Wood and I slipped away for a two-day bus tour of some newspaper facilities in north Alabama and Georgia. About 30 newspaper folks from around the country flew into Atlanta for the National Newspaper Association's "On the Road" tour.
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Inside the Statehouse
More 'Miss Mittie' stories
Steve Flowers
      Many of you seemed to enjoy my story about Miss Mittie last week and her legendary prowess as the oracle of Goat Hill. She was such a peculiar looking sight in her floor length black dress and hat, always knitting and never looking up. It was like she had eyes in the top of h...
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Gone South
Resurrection and reconciliation
Hardy Jackson
      This is a story about a little Alabama town where, for years, people didn't seem to care if you were Methodist or Baptist or Catholic or something else. No one was going to put you down for being what you were. Sure, folks had their differences. And, sure, some of those diffe...
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The legend and lore that holds families together
By Tom O'Boyle The Pittsburg Post-Herald
      There's nothing like the blinking lights of a police car, on a back road in rural Alabama at night, to make you think: Perhaps this wasn't a good idea. Which was exactly the thought that ran through this Yankee's brain as the state trooper approached our car. Fortunately, my...
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Congress Reports
'A brighter future'
Jo Bonner
      The news for south Alabama keeps getting better and better. I am extremely pleased by ThyssenKrupp's decision to build its new state-of-the-art steel manufacturing and processing facility in southwest Alabama. Once again, our region, and indeed the entire state, came togeth...
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