Opinion

Celebrate Foster Care Month in May

Each May, National Foster Care Month provides an opportunity to highlight the experiences of over 400,000 children and youth in the foster care system and ... Read more

Spring is here for Shelby County

Spring is here! Even though we have the occasional cold snaps, the flowering trees and singing birds tell us that spring has come again. This ... Read more

Students assume leadership roles

Two years ago, Thompson High School students decided to help out a fellow student, Josh Carden, who has cerebral palsy and whose grandfather had recently ... Read more

Time to manage Medicaid care

Medicaid reform proposals now in the Alabama Legislature could help save hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ dollars and improve medical care that the agency provides ... Read more

Local economy looking up

I’ve gotten a chance to write about some pretty exciting developments in Shelby County’s economy over the past few weeks. And I’ve got to say, ... Read more

Letters to the Editor

Thompson needs better track surface

As a former student of Thompson High School and a member of the track and field team from 2006 to 2008, I noticed a major ... Read more

Chelsea residents should decide about tax

There seem to be some good points to support Chelsea's proposed one-cent sales tax increase, and I'm also hearing some good points to oppose the ... Read more

Home should not have been demolished

When I read the article about the house on Pebble Lane, I was shocked and disappointed. Have we as a community become so materialistic that ... Read more

Legislature needs to follow Bentley

Remember when we were children and we played follow the leader? One person was chosen as the leader and the rest followed. Well, the state’s ... Read more

A rebuttal to Cam Ward column

I am an Alabama educator, and I am writing in response to Cam Ward’s column, “The real story behind educational changes.” Read more

More Articles

  1. Traffic light needed at Pelham High School
  2. UM brings international perspective
  3. An inspiration to all of us
  4. Locals share in shock of Boston Marathon
  5. Bring understanding to parental alienation
  6. Ingenuity is key to state’s success
  7. ‘Doctor shopping’ bills sorely needed
  8. 5K race teaches us to never give up
  9. Martin should resign from BOE
  10. The real story behind educational changes
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