Snakes are a part of the fabric of the South
Publisher's Comments
Jim Cox
      A few weeks ago we ran a photograph of James Young of Bladon Springs holding up a big coachwhip snake that he killed at Perdue Hill over in Monroe County. Coachwhips are kind of unusual. You don't see them nearly as much as you do rattlesnakes, copperheads and other snakes.
More ...

New book says man can't stop global warming
Guest Column
By Gary Palmer Alabama Policy Institute
      Proponents of man-made global warming and the liberal mainstream media want us to believe that there is "total agreement among all reputable members of the scientific community" that mankind is the real cause of global warming. In other words, a consensus that humans - especially those of us who ...
More ...

Cartoon
Read the Story...

Alabama's Watergate?
Alabama Viewpoint
Bob Martin
      A few months back Don Siegelman stated that his conviction and imprisonment would become "Alabama's Watergate." At the time I dismissed such a suggestion as Siegelman hyperbole. Then came allegations by a Rainsville lawyer that she overheard a telephone plot to use the Justice Department to get t...
More ...

Local children donate to cancer center
Report From Congress
Jo Bonner
      Last week I had the honor of presenting the ambassador of Kazakhstan, Erlan A. Idrissov, with $2,400 raised by students at Mobile's Dodge Elementary School. In an effort the students named "Coins for Cancer," students at Dodge Elementary School collected coins for three years to donate to the Sem...
More ...

Report card on homeschooling
      Using an article from the Washington County News, Lisa Dyess of Millry, in a recent Letter to the Editor to The South Alabmaian, quoted David Davis, Washington County Board of Education Truancy Officer: "The main problem we face comes with parents telling us their children are being homescho...
More ...