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School boards owe a huge duty...
School boards owe a huge duty to the general public. They are tasked with overseeing the overall functions of local schools, approving the hiring of teachers and coaches, seeing that state and federal...
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Fallen Officer?
Every definition of “fallen officer” that we have found refers to an officer killed either while on duty or while reporting to duty. While we have the greatest respect for Brian Faulkner of the former...
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Don't Shoot Him, He's Insolent
We received the following petition in our e-mail earlier this week:Petition by Les Anderson Elkhart, Indiana 94,469 Supporters Sign Les’ petition When my son Zach met a girl through an online dating...
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Just who is the attorney?
Just who is the attorney who committed such a breach of ethics according to the ACLU lawyer representing the incarcerated pregnant Lauderdale County inmate? And are we taxpayers footing his/her...
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Inmate Abortion Q & A
Randall Marshal Who is the inmate? While it shouldn't be hard to discover the name of the inmate, there are enough crazy people out there that we have no desire to make the woman's name public.Why did...
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Why Is the State Housing These Prisoners?
Our state is cash strapped, especially our prison system. Yet, for whatever reason, those individuals sentenced to both state and federal time must do their state time first. Why?There's no real parole...
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Florence Country Club Sale?
A reader asked if there was any new info on the proposed sale of the Florence Country Club back to the city. As far as we know, there isn't. Another reader had suggested some real estate agent would...
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Ms. Missy Hibbett, Circuit Clerk
I’m gonna have a fit like my gramma used to have if things don't change. One of those old fashioned “tell it like it is”. “Politics make strange bedfellows” is a mild understatement. Over 20 years ago,...
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ACLU?
This post is about government abusing its power granted by the Constitution, oppressing its citizens.I am completely against abortion. I don't like the ACLU. They choose ONLY issues to fit their...
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Your Opinions?
As regular readers know, we publish almost all opinions here whether we agree or not. Many times we publish opinion blogs on issues of which we have no knowledge. We always welcome rebuttals. This blog...
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Work How Long, Get a Pension?
If you are elected to our wonderful legislature, you will get a pension after only two years of service? Apparently so. Our tax dollars at work.Our legislature used to have one session every two years,...
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Who Was Driving in the Fatal Crash?
The parents of two-year old Addison Whitaker have filed suit against Robert Chase Capley. The civil suit recently filed in Lauderdale County states that Capley was operating the vehicle in which the...
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Blake Edwards Has Some Interesting Opposition
Florence District Five councilman Blake Edwards, co-owner of Hospice of Tennessee Valley, will be having some interesting opposition next year. A Florence youth, who will barely be the required 18...
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Florence: The Agent Orange City
If any readers think Agent Orange was a type of poison, think again. The chemical used widely in Vietnam was a super-fertilizer. Sprayed on foliage, the chemical caused vegetation to grow to fantastic...
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Your Legislature & Doc Larry at Work
If you've never looked at a list of bills/proclamations passed each day during a session of the Alabama legislature, you've missed something. Much, we say much, of what is processed each day are...
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Canada? Uh, It's Somewhere/Tourism Troubles
Geography? We're sure many can take or leave it, but we also expect professional writers to have a basic understanding of it. Just last week Coffee Road morphed into Coffee Highway in the course of the...
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A “Marquis Organization?”
The third candidate for new director of Florence-Lauderdale Tourism Director has stated the current tourism staff is considered a “marquis organization.” That sounds very nice, but what the heck is it?...
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We Now Have Hospital Lift-Off!
After much money spent fighting Lauderdale County, mostly by Huntsville Hospital via Keller we strongly suspect, RegionalCare now has an uncontested go-ahead to build it's new hospital. We...
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Only 40 or 50 Years?
We've commented before on this trend, if after all these years it can be called a trend. It's built-in obsolescence. Buildings are designed to last around 30 years, unless they're a fast food...
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Rep. Ed Henry Strikes Again
Rep. Ed HenryBoards of Education in our area are notoriously slated for nepotism, do-nothingness, and just plain ignorance. No one can remember a time citizens of western Lauderdale have felt they had...
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