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Our Opinions Slugging senators By now, everyone has heard and seen the famous Alabama State Senate punch. It not only made the news everywhere in Alabama but across the nation and around the world, too. Certainly, there is no excuse for it but given the tempers and tantrums that have been boiling in the Senate all session it i... More ... 2% will be OK A recent report by an Auburn University Montgomery professor as to the impact of the new ThyssenKrupp steel mill on southwest Alabama caused a stir with the prediction that Clarke and Washington counties and other area rural counties will each see less than a 2 percent impact from the project. More ... What Others Say No timetable on 84 Joe McInnes, director of the Alabama Department of Transportation (DOT) in Montgomery, couldn't say when the project to four-lane U.S. Highway 84 from Monroeville to Evergreen might be completed. More ...
Read the Story... Valium needed for senators By Bob Martin There have certainly been incidents in the past of near fistfights in the hallowed halls of the Alabama Legislature. There was also an incident back in the late 1960s or early 1970s when a fight between two senators was fictionalized by a few members of the Capitol press corps. More ... Slavery apology about satanism Dear Editor: We read and see on the news about certain black people wanting white people to give an apology for slavery. Let me first say that this is not about racism or the Rebel flag and never will be because it's about satanism! Satan is always at the root of any problem between people. You c... More ... From Our Files 37 years ago "Two new Conservation Officers have been stationed in Clarke County. They are Norman Douglas Bruce, who will be in Grove Hill, and Robert Hill, who will be stationed in the Thomasville area…Hill is a native of Thomasville. He has been stationed at Uriah for the past 20 months... More ... |
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