August 23, 2012 RSS feed / Editorials

EDITOR’S NOTES

All elections from local to national are important

This coming Tuesday, voters who reside within incorporated municipalities across the state will have the opportunity to choose who will lead their cities for the next four years. More...

Big hoax heralded life on moon in 1835

• On Aug. 24, 79, after centuries of dormancy, Mount Vesuvius erupts in southern Italy, burying the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. More...

Thanks, Tom!

If everyone who lives in Jackson and Clarke County believed in the city and county the way Selma resident Tom Bolton does, it’d be a better Jackson and a better Clarke County. More...

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Alabama Viewpoint

Here’s full story on Ala. Trust Fund

Alabama votes Sept. 18th to decide the fate of a constitutional amendment which would strip $437 million dollars from the Alabama Trust Fund (ATF) to patch a $437 million hole in the state’s general fund budget over the next three fiscal years. More...

Congress Reports

Airbus ramping up for full employment in Mobile

Last week, I was pleased to join Governor Robert Bentley and Austal USA interim president, Brian Leathers, in marking another milestone for the local Navy ship builder. More...