Recounting 2019. The Third Most Read Post Of The Year.
Editor's note: Courtney Welborn was principal of White Plains middle school in Calhoun County in the 2018-19 school year. (She has since moved to the central office.) Early in 2019 Senator Del Marsh mounted an effort to eliminate the Alabama College & Career Ready...
Recounting 2019. The Fourth Most Read Post.
Editor's note: The following post got 2,956 views. The charter school fiasco in Washington County dominated our "most-read" list. This is another one of them. Washington County Charter School Fiasco Gets National And International Attention Apr 14, 2019 As we all...
Reviewing The Most Read Posts Of 2019
Editor's note: It's the season when the media is full of recounting the best football games of the year, the top political stories, the most expensive divorcees, which states had the most possums to cross the road, etc. So in the spirit of such, we will bring to you...
The Irony Of Amendment One
Alabama voters will go to the polls next March 3 to decide the fate of amendment one. At the heart of this amendment is an attempt to deny all citizens the right to vote to elect their state school board members. The irony of this vote is that 55 years and four days...
Another Gem From Our Friend, J. L. Strickland
Editor's note: There was so much reader response to our recent story from J. L. Strickland, we share another. It is especially appropriate at this season when joy and mirth should abound. If this doesn't bring a chuckle, check your pulse. "Back in the fifties, as I...
A Christmas Story
Editor's note: J. L. Strickland is a retired textile worker from east Alabama who has spent his life in what the locals know as the "valley." It straddles the Alabama-Georgia line and for generations was home to numerous mills were cotton was turned into cloth. ...
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