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A Little Customer/Client Service, Please?

Mr. Gibbs: A Heavenly Shelter Rescue!We receive scads of e-mails about bad customer service or inferior service or lost/stolen items/pets. We choose not to publish these since we don't have space, they...

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Did Someone Say It Was Impossible?

   Photo courtesy USA TodayAhem, way to go Auburn! Let's keep that crystal football in the state!The Staff at Shoalanda Speaks

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Gary Hugh Stancil: Another Blot on Franklin County Schools

Subjects TaughtPhysical EducationBioI have been a physical education teacher for 14 years.  I received my MAEd and BSEd degrees from The University of North Alabama(2001, 1993) and  a BSEd (social...

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Bronner Hog Tied

Like Dr. David Bronner or not, it's obvious a resolution passed by the RSA board will severely limit his ability to invest RSA funds. Bronner just may become the Internet Explorer of Alabama investing:...

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Nothing Wrong with an Attractive Sow's Ear

There's nothing wrong with wanting to do better and be better. There is something wrong with failing to comprehend or admit one's limitations. The 450#, 78 year-old ballet dancer isn't going to perform...

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It's 1950, and...

* The local university is rampant with crime against women.* A local pol has just used his influence to secure a job for a family member. * Florence has lost a fantastic opportunity to a larger city.*...

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History Repeats Itself?

Yesterday we compared 2013 to 1950. It would seem a bit of more recent history is about to repeat itself in Lauderdale County. Many officials have remained mum on the big story, but not all. Watch this...

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The Florence Christmas Parade Miracle

I told Miz Shoalanda that I had to tell ever body about this, it being the Christmas season and all. Last night was supposed to have been the annual Dog Ear holiday parade, but the school had to hock...

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Have You Been Blessed?

Most who are reading this today have been richly blessed. If you doubt it, just compare your income to that of those who live in 99% of other countries. Now compare your income to the average U.S....

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Got a Light?

The Florence-Lauderdale Detention Center may soon begin to sell electronic cigarettes. One rationale for the sale of these e-cigs is said to be inmates destroying electrical wall outlets when trying to...

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Would Muscle Shoals Walmart Lie?

Quick, everyone, what does O.B. hate more than Auburn? If you said Walmart, you're obviously a regular reader of OB's Corner. It seems our local Muscle Shoals WallyWorld has ticked some customers off....

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Mirror, Mirror: Municipal Court

If you've been to one municipal court, you've pretty well been to all. The number of available seats may vary, and the judge's dais may rise to greater heights in some courts, but one thing is...

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Dear Santa: Some Peace on Earth?

Dear Santa:We here at Shoalanda Speaks would really like some peace on earth this Christmas. How about it?BTW, we've all been very, very good this year. SS Dear Shoalanda:You'll be happy to know I have...

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Joel Moyers Gets an Early Christmas Present

Joel Moyers, the Limestone County man accused of murdering Brandon Hydrick, has received an early Christmas gift--bail. Moyers has been granted bail by an Alabama appeals court and quickly bonded out...

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Graham Files Second Appeal

Convicted killer Hershel Dale Graham has filed his second appeal on the last legal day to do so. Graham was arrested and tried for Felony Murder in the shooting death of David Andrasik. After being...

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Tourist Wars?

Lodging tax is what most of us would call big money. Now there seems to be some dissension as to what entity will control this money in Florence-Lauderdale. As it stands now, all funds go back to the...

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Jordan's Wife New Director of Rosenbaum Home

Libby Watts Jordan, third wife of Florence councilman Dick Jordan, has been named the new director of the Rosenbaum home. Watts, who's undergraduate degree is in geology, beat out 29 other applicants...

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Who Will Be Next "Director of Cultural Tourism?"

Now that Libby Stoddard Watts Jordan has officially taken the new position of curator for the Rosenbaum home, who will replace her as the Director of Cultural Tourism with the Florence-Lauderdale...

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Blood on the Streets of Tupelo

It's the birthplace of Elvis. It's smaller than Florence. It's not the wild west, and one doesn't expect a shootout between bank robbers and police. Yet that's what the small Mississippi town got for...

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Merry Christmas 2013!

Merry Christmas fromD.K., J. Redmon, Bailey Quarters, &Shoalanda

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