The return on investment for Alabama’s retirement systems, one for teachers and education employees and one for judges and other public workers, hasn’t fared as well as those in other states over the past two decades. More...
• On June 11, 1509, King Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon, the first of six wives he will have in his lifetime. When Catherine failed to produce a male heir, Henry divorced her against the will of the Roman Catholic Church. More...
The news a couple of weeks ago that Alabama’s three largest daily newspapers—in Birmingham, Mobile and Huntsville—will reduce publication from seven days a week to three was unsettling. More...
House ready to work to avert student loan interest rate hike
Jo Bonner
This White House is already known for its publicly stated practice of letting no crisis go to waste. However, if no crisis exists, it will apparently invent one to exploit for political gain. More...
Dear Editor, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, (1906- 1945) a German Lutheran pastor, theologian and activist member of the German resistance movement against Nazism, is quoted as having said: “Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” More...
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