Editorials
November 25, 2009
Editorial: A bloated salary in cash-strapped two-year system
Hold onto your hats: Alabama’s new chancellor of postsecondary education, Frieda Hill, will receive salary and benefits exceeding $350,000 annually.
November 24, 2009
Editorial: Fort Bragg media ban is a wrong move
If a politician ‘goes rogue’ and no one is there to report it, does she make any noise?
November 22, 2009
Editorial: Explain to us your opposition to electronic bingo, Gov. Riley
How can you flatly state that electronic bingo is illegal on the grounds that the devices are slot machines without including the state’s largest gambling hall? The omission is glaring, and the people of Alabama have not missed it.
Letters to the Editor
November 25, 2009
Letter: Hitting the nail on the head
If people are going to gamble when they really cannot afford to do so, then they will also spend their money elsewhere, such as on booze, drugs, sleazy clubs or many other options that are available to people willing to waste their last dollar instead of spending it wisely — bingo or no bingo!
Letter: Have we learned nothing?
You would think that Wile E. Coyote was president of the United States.
Letter: Thankful for Sarah Palin
She has the wholehearted support of such anti-America figures as Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter.
Columnists
Dothan: My kind of vanilla
A friend of mine called me and told me that Dothan had been named by BusinessWeek magazine as one of the best places in the country to raise kids.
A better understanding of war
Over the past eight years, this newspaper has written numerous stories about soldiers leaving for Iraq and Afghanistan and returning home from war.
Dinosaur go rrrrr, Daddy go huh?
There are many great questions in life.


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