Since March of 2020, nearly a million people in Alabama have been diagnosed with COVID, and at least a third of these people have continued to suffer with health issues after their initial bout.

Too many men are stuck in a cycle of “idleness and pornography and video games.”

Hey, remember how Donald Trump collaborated with Russians to commit crimes enabling him to win the 2016 presidential election, provoking the two-and-a-half year Mueller investigation and inspiring a news story a day to keep trust in Trump away?

When an industry proposes to locate to an area, nearby residents, businesses and community groups all have a vested interest in what that industry wants to do, and how those plans will affect them and their environment.

“Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.” — Thurgood Marshall

Recent elections show “Defund the police” to be what I expected all along, a slogan better suited for the streets than the ballot box.

Last week my brother and I were in an unexpected place: Section 132, field level, first base side, for Game Six of the 2021 World Series.

The significance of Virginia Lt. Governor-elect Winsome Sears’ victory cannot be overstated. But her victory is significant not only because she is a Black woman and the “first” of her race and gender to hold the office of lieutenant governor in Virginia, but also because she has been descri…

When I was a freshman at Coffee High School, we were required to take one semester of Alabama History and one semester of Civics. That was in 1960.

Forget Congress. It has become a joke. Trusting it with the American future is like trusting Donald Trump to retire from bombast. Perhaps I exaggerate, but a screech or two for help is needed because we are right now witnessing a degeneration that bodes poorly for all of us, even for leftist…

The annual “trick-or-treat” ritual is over. Not so the “tricks” perpetuated by congressional Democrats about their tax-and-spend ritual.

A couple of recent studies by experts who examine what makes us Americans tick politically have found that conservatives are happier than liberals. My response, why shouldn't they be?

Now that fall is approaching not a week goes by that I don’t receive some kind of complaint regarding a homeless person downtown. Accordingly, the police department, as well as our downtown businesses and residents, have legitimate interest in understanding the long-range plans of the Shoals…

China recently launched a test missile that whirled around the entire planet traveling at five times the speed of sound and previewing hypersonic duplicates someday possibly threatening nuclear obliteration all over the place. Getting their adjectives mixed up, some say this could be the beg…

“They’re Coming to America” — Neil Diamond

I’ve been an educated woman for a good portion of the last two decades, working in circles where men made more money than I did and sometimes didn’t work nearly as hard as I did.

Dave Chappelle is in hot water again, testing the boundaries of public sensibilities so you don’t have to.

In 2021, Alabama’s state government took more money from taxpayers than ever before. The big question is, what will state government leadership do with it? It should be used to provide tax relief to citizens and businesses, not to continue to grow government.

Listened to any good books lately?

What is the greatest threat to educating children today? Is it COVID-19, or ignorance? I’m going for number two. There is growing evidence to back me up.

Congratulations, Chicago. The city is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire, although “celebrate” is not the best verb to use.

With the death of Sgt. Nick Risner this weekend, our state has lost 10 law enforcement officers in 10 months and 24 officers in five years.

We Americans are 330,000,000 people trying to find a way to travel together to the same place. Or so we like to think.

It is a metaphor for what is occurring at seemingly all levels of our country and culture. The United States Postal Service (USPS) has announced it will slow service for first-class mail and periodicals while “temporarily” increasing prices on all “commercial and retail domestic” packages ..…

At last, Black girls’ lives matter too.

I’m a 42-year-old mother of four teenagers. For most of my life, I have been engaged in the political process and have instilled the values of engaging in the political process in my children. So, when my son Donovan had the opportunity to visit our state capital as an eighth-grade K-12 onli…

Ben Lamm and George Church are thinking big. Their new bioscience and genetics startup is called Colossal, and Colossal’s first project is mammoth. Literally.

There are forces that wish to destroy America. Some of them are visible and some are stealth.

LOS ANGELES — Forget what you hear most pundits saying about last week’s recall election that failed to unseat California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Some Democrats think, because Newsom ran on an anti-Trump platform, that will bring the party success — or cause them less damage — in the next two elections.

I appreciate constructive criticism, even when I think the critic is full of prunes.

The daunting task of pandemic response and post-pandemic recovery requires input and assistance from all nations if international efforts are to succeed. Thus, it is time for the international community to welcome Taiwan as a full member of the United Nations.

When your home state is prominent in the headlines, it’s usually not a good thing.

Responding to Democrats in her party who are troubled by the massive $3.5 trillion spending bill that would forever transform America into a debtor nation, Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked a question: “Where would you cut?”

As much as they try, soldiers returning home from combat don’t always manage to leave the war behind on the battlefield.

As I watched 13 brave American heroes being brought home after being killed in Afghanistan, it was tragic and heartbreaking.

After President Joe Biden’s tragic spectacle of administrative incompetence, pundits said Afghanistan was going to be the chief issue in the midterm elections. Then the Supreme Court showed up as justices refused to halt a Texas legal maneuver that could stop abortions in the state and later…

I grew up in a rural south Mississippi town. My father was a World War II veteran and a doctor who made house calls. He loved and cared for his family, friends, and his patients.

Evacuating Afghanistan is one thing, but letting the Taliban immediately take over, kill the innocent, destroy rights and oppress is something else. Our allies are aghast, knowing this evil force will align itself with Western adversaries, threaten 9/11-style terrorism and help make egregiou…

In his address to Congress on Dec. 8, 1941, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt said: “... we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us. Hostilities exist. Th…

In Florence, our final mayoral election was decided by 11 votes in 2020. Isn’t that wild? Only about 7% of Florence residents voted that day.