Opinion Archives August 2024

Comeback Town: Birmingham music greats gather together

Roy S. Johnson: More citizens’ solutions to gun violence, and haunting Elvis lyrics

Comeback Town: Birmingham must seize opportunities before it’s too late

Alabama is a lab rat on Project 2025 highway to theocracy

Goodman: An SEC Auburn's Pat Dye always wanted

Guest opinion: 'Mr. T.’s’ life ended early, but he burned bright for multitudes

Roy S. Johnson: The browning of Alabama is here to stay, whether some like it or not

Beth Thames: The ‘Haiku Path’ at Monte Sano State Park

Cameron Smith: A hiding Harris sends Trump into chaos mode

Whitmire: Alabama Democrats take their toxic mess to the Chicago DNC

Defending American democracy: op-ed

Birmingham's future, if there is one, as told by its saddest statistics

Goodman: LeBron 'Griswold' James returns home from European vacation

Fearless Kamala Harris stands up to weird, scared bully

Comeback Town: Is it time for a name change at UAB?

Roy S. Johnson: If you were king, queen of Birmingham, how would you stem gun violence?

Peeling back the layers on Clotilda: A journalist’s quest for truth in history’s legends: op-ed

Goodman: Time to rethink everything we know about Alabama football

Roy S. Johnson: Olympics allow us to escape, dream, and root for a better world

American security requires a commercial shipbuilding industry: op-ed

Cameron Smith: Reagan’s big tent has an Alabama champion

Beth Thames: First Stop in Huntsville can help the homeless change their story

A new dawn for Democrats: op-ed

Alabama must pay $5.25 million to the lawyers who sued over redistricting

Snark attack: Top 20 fishy caption contest winners are ‘sworda fun’

Archibald: These Olympics gave us a thing we thought we’d lost

Guest opinion: He lost his life, but his memory might save others

Goodman: Kirby Smart is more like Urban Meyer than Nick Saban

Bridgy McBridgeface? Readers offer names for new I-10 Mobile bridge

Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission showing blatant disregard for law: op-ed

Co-parenting and doing the right thing for the children: op-ed

Comeback Town: What do we give up by living in Alabama? Ask Nick Saban

Roy S. Johnson: For true parole reform, Gwathney must go

Cameron Smith: Democrats decide to make it weird

Something weird is happening. Democrats are having fun again.

Roy S. Johnson: Trump at NABJ - 'a 35-minute SNL skit' with no laughs

Into big fish, fishnet stockings and caption contests? Let’s hook up

Beth Thames to Olympic viewers: Get over the ‘Last Supper’ incident and watch the games