Alabama Opinion Editorials

Beginning Sunday, Equality In The Alabama Workplace

by Adam Powell on August 29, 2019 in Alabama Opinion Editorials

A number of new laws are taking effect on Sunday, many of which are aimed at ensuring or promoting driver safety – whether by requiring all riders be strapped in when rolling down the highway or making sure that slower drivers don’t nap in the […]

Kay Ivey Should Listen To Alabama Voters When It Comes To Toll Roads

by David Preston on August 28, 2019 in Alabama Opinion Editorials

Governor Ivey, your people are hurting. They are crying out for help and starving for leadership and starving for the direction that only you can provide. Your lack of listening to Alabamians up until this point has allowed demagogues like State Auditor Jim Ziegler and […]

DNC Gives Alabama Democrats a Scintilla of Hope

by Clete Wetli on August 26, 2019 in Alabama Opinion Editorials

In an unprecedented rebuke of the current leadership of the Alabama Democratic Party, the DNC voted unanimously last week to strip ADP Chair Nancy Worley and ADP Vice-Chair Randy Kelley of their DNC credentials.

Tow Woes Abound in the Port City

by David Preston on August 20, 2019 in Alabama Opinion Editorials

Mobile has a towing problem. If you ask the police administration, they will tell you it started with towing companies overcharging for their services. If you ask the towing companies, they will tell you it started when the police administration started targeting a few companies […]

Alabama’s Silent War on the Press

by Adam Powell on August 20, 2019 in Alabama Opinion Editorials

“The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – the better the teacher, the better the student body.” – Warren Buffett This year’s state legislative session was enough to make even the […]

Tuberville Fails with Education Comments

by Clete Wetli on August 19, 2019 in Alabama Opinion Editorials

It’s worth noting that Tuberville has zero experience in politics and he somehow thinks that it makes him even more qualified for the position. Well, that might be how they pick head coaches in college football- oh, wait- they would never dream of that- oops, scratch that.

Mobile Anti-Toll Leaders Should Stop Fussing at the Kid’s Table

by David Preston on August 13, 2019 in Alabama Opinion Editorials

Like most populist movements headed by the Tea Party Movement, the omissions, the misinformation, and the outright lies are starting to metastasize in the anti-toll movement related to the I-10 Mobile River Bridge and Bayway Project. These untruths and misinformation doesn’t need to stop efforts […]

AL Rep. Mo Brooks and the Straw Man of Socialism

by Clete Wetli on August 12, 2019 in Alabama Opinion Editorials

Brooks has built his whole career on creating straw men that he haphazardly associates with his opposition in defiance of facts and logic.

Let’s Understand the Full Impact of Tourism, Mobile

by David Preston on August 9, 2019 in Alabama Opinion Editorials

It’s time that the city of Mobile stops using a whack-a-mole approach to handling, developing, and managing the different tourist attractions and tourist draws to the city. It seems like this administration hops from one issue to another when dealing with properties in this city […]

Alabama Gun Worship Must End

by Clete Wetli on August 5, 2019 in Alabama Opinion Editorials

So, instead of recognizing the obvious epidemic and widespread carnage of growing gun violence, Alabama politicians keep pushing bills to make gun ownership easier and less accountable. In fact, the cliché of all clichés in Alabama is to watch a conservative campaign ad with the candidate firing a gun.