Editorials

• Give thanks

  Congress made Thanksgiving Day an official holiday in 1941, less than 100 years after President Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November a national day of thanksgiving.

• Recession casualty

  Faced with unemployment or underemployment, many young adults are moving back in with their parents to survive the recession.
  One casualty of the recession has been young adults.

• Obama's bow

  President Obama is being criticized by some for bowing to Japanese Emperor Akihito during a diplomatic junket.

• Hits and misses

  Thumbs up to the Colbert County Commission for its decision to clean up overgrown lots and ditches in the county industrial park. Commissioners said they want to set a good example in hopes that businesses and building owners will follow their lead.

• Public's business

  The approval of $2.03 million to buy the Florence Golf and Country Club raised questions about how Florence city leaders could make their decision without discussing it with each other at an open council meeting.

• Around the state

  The Tuscaloosa News on Sen. Sessions and a federal media shield law:
  A federal law that would provide some

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