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The Real Cost of Heroin in the Shoals
We regularly see women who are pulled into the underbelly of society by drugs. These women leave their families to trade their favors to drug dealers, or perhaps to anyone who can pay, in order to...
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Doc Scumbag?/Site News
In case you missed it, one of the Shoals’ state senators, Larry Stutts, was crowned state scumbag of the year 2015 by Al.com. We read the article and our opinion is the man having sex with the family...
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Get Your Red Hot Sculptures Here
The cities of Florence and Tuscumbia still don’t have their rock-n-roll sculptures in place…or even in line to be in place. Actually, as far as Tuscumbia goes, for all we know that Colbert County town...
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Did Judge Billy Jackson Throw a Monkey Wrench?
We’ve received many inquiries as to why Lauderdale County Circuit Judge Billy Jackson is retiring 50 weeks before the end of this term. We can only speculate and are still left with more questions than...
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Before You Say Blog…/Frank Mallonee
Bill Britt of the Alabama Political Reporter says he cringes whenever he hears the word blog; we’re assuming that’s mainly when it’s used to describe his news site. The word “Blog” is short for web...
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Is Muscle Shoals Guilty of Illegal Sports Recruiting?
From Leslie M. Shoals:So what is the law on recruiting for high schools????TIMESDAILY TODAY -...
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$1,800,000.00 Doesn’t Buy What It Used To
Home to Bentley or Bin Laden?What would you do with an extra 1.8 million dollars you just happened to have lying around? If you’re the State of Alabama, you’re refurbishing the Governor’s Mansion South...
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Is the TimesDaily Depressed?
We understand that several e-mail addys for the TimesDaily are returning any communication sent to them. Well, it does cut down on negative comments.Along that line, we understand the TVT forum is...
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If You Don't Laugh at This...
You're just not human:In case you missed the articles in the TimesDaily and Decatur Daily, this six year-old child (whom we won't name) is going to the national championship game. Did his family tell...
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Ed Henry Strikes Again
Ed Henry, Republican state representative, doesn’t want increased background checks on gun sales which require all dealers to register. Why? It seems it’s his hobby to buy and sell at gun shows and he...
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Colbert Superintendent/E-Mail Addy
Several years ago a Lauderdale County man faced trial on an extremely serious charge. Due to the somewhat odd circumstances of the legal proceedings, it made many national blogs and news sites....
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The mythical 'gun show loophole', background checks, internet sales, and FFL...
There IS NOT, and NEVER HAS BEEN a 'gun show loophole' .ALL federally licensed dealers that 'set up' at gun shows ARE REQUIRED (and always have been) to run background checks on ALL firearm purchases...
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Judges Are Like Bloggers
We’re sure that some judges are shuddering at that thought, but indeed judges and bloggers have one very important trait in common: They both make decisions every day and invariably receive negative...
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We’ve recently received communications concerning Veterans Park and the Blackberry Golf Course in Florence. Both are said to be in various stages of neglect. Why?It’s been reported that the city didn’t...
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Tony Cox/Two Very Different Habitat Volunteers
From Tony Cox, candidate for Lauderdale County License Commissioner:Thanks for the opportunity to address you and your readership. The business of politics in general, and politicking in particular, is...
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No Bargain?/Endorsements
We don't usually comment on local businesses, but a faithful reader has sent us a very interesting comment on a local catalogue return business. This is an opinion piece and does not necessarily...
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How Many Chances for Drug Addicts?
Probably most of us have known someone who was seriously injured in an accident and then prescribed narcotic pain killers for a great length of time. Some of these people do become addicted, and many...
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No Wake Up Calls for These Bad Boys?
PresleyWhen rehab doesn't work:Everyone in Franklin County knows Elvis Adam Presley—the perennial bad boy that is. He even once recruited an immediate family member to bring him drugs to the Franklin...
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UNA Parking/Mickey D's
Someone actually paid for a study to tell UNA officials that the university needs more parking spaces? We need to tell them we’re available, for the right fee, to investigate repeated reports of two...
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Bentley is What?/Gerald Surratt Jr.
A recent AL.com article on capital punishment called Gov. Robert Bentley a former physician. What? His medical college has stripped him of his diploma? No, he's simply a physician who is not currently...
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