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Know Your Hibbetts (or Who is Suing Whom?)
Do you know your Hibbetts? It all started with Mr. Rufus Hibbett, a former superintendent of Florence City Schools. From various public sources:In 1945 Rufus G. Hibbett, a high school coach and teacher...
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New Revelations About First Friday Incident
Assuming yesterday’s public statement by Florence chief Ron Tyler is 100% correct, we offer the following observations on the recent attack in Wilson Park:1. The incident happened around 9:40, at least...
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Violence on Lawrence Avenue
Have an apartment complex for a neighbor? You automatically have parties, alcohol, drugs, fights, and stabbings/shootings.There was a shooting earlier this year at a Brinks’ apartment complex. Now we...
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George Weakley Rhodes Is Out on Bond?--Update
George Weakley Rhodes Jr. has quite a record. What better way to read about it than in our own words?“Old School”He left prison in January of this year. That’s five months of freedom. Now...
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Father's Day 2015
Remember who you are. You will never be sorry for investing in your children!Shoalanda
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To Shoot or Not?
In May:An Alabama State Trooper fired his weapon at a 38-year-old man who struck the officer with his car during an attempted traffic stop. When law enforcement caught up to the man, who suffers from...
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FLIP FLOPS, WINDS, and MUSICAL CHAIRS in Lauderdale County....
From a reader:Billy Jackson was appointed by Bob Riley as the District Attorney in 2002 as a Republican. He ran for re-election in 2004 (that was a condition of being appointed), lost, then ran for won...
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Basden's Grid Iron Girls? Sexist, Much?
From a Muscle Shoals reader: Muscle Shoals Taxpayers financed a Football Dynasty of 10 million dollars. The PUBLIC facility is locked. Residents are not allowed to walk on the TAXPAYER track at the...
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Jim Bonner Running for Office?
I would like to announce my candidacy for the Democratic nomination to be your next presidentMy platform:1) all southerners will be tried for treason and if they admit their guilt as traitors may be...
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Northwest Alabama or Nazi Germany?
We have had several comments about our guest editorial on restrictions at the Muscle Shoals football field. First, some questioned the publication of the article itself. Let's look at that.The author...
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Darren Rhodes & Gingerbread Antiques
For the past 8 years one of the most unique and interesting places to browse during a lunch break, or shop for collectibles in downtown Florence, has been Gingerbread Antiques. Located next to...
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Muskrats & Malls
From Tuscumbia Muskrat: The biggest waste of Tuscumbia tax payer money is the continued employment of our incompetent Park Manager, Joel Kendrick. The Times Daily (again) delivered Kendrick's whitewash...
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Love Letters from Prison
“Is any of it really true?” We actually had someone ask us that question recently concerning several articles we had published over the years concerning a local thug/sociopath. It seems this man had...
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Enforcing Traffic Laws
This is an article that I had hoped would never be written. As a former law enforcement officer, and having had relatives die in the line of duty, the subject of law enforcement is very close and dear...
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When Politics Wins, Children Lose
Second only to the feuding between rival political parties, is the in-house feuding of 'educational politics'. In this, small school systems seem to excel. One only has to look at what has been...
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Censorship & the Cult of Muscle Shoals
A guest editorial:Before settling in North Alabama, my husband and I lived in Kentucky and Tennessee. While he worked in engineering, I taught high school English. I'm now retired to write full time,...
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Angel Nava: Paying for his Upkeep
He's an illegal alien and you're paying for his upkeep—hopefully for the rest of his natural life. He's Angel Nava Campos and he killed his long-time girlfriend in an extremely brutal manner, then left...
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Justin Matthew Green...Again
From a reader:Could you help me to understand why XXXXX is being charged with taking someone's life that was of an age that could have refused to take drugs, then when XXXXX gets caught again with...
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Hershel Dale Graham--Now Our Problem
Since 2008, the state of Alabama has allowed some prisoners to return home under house arrest if they are dying...as in soon. Those convicted of Capital Murder and Rape are excluded from this...
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