Opinion & Policy

  I’m watching the reports of a “leak” from the Supreme Court of the United States. We have now lost all sense of integrity, honesty, principle, and trust in the halls of our government. We have grown accustomed to it in the halls of Congress, our top law enforcement agencies and security agencies, military, and…

  We’ve just completed the month designated by U.S. lawmakers as Financial Literacy Month. It would appear many of them aren’t financially literate, and it shows. But we are fortunate here in Alabama to have government leaders who are. Alabama just passed historic budgets, and our state has the lowest unemployment rates ever. Financially speaking,…

Special to the News Op-Ed by Secretary of State John Merrill   In Alabama, it is illegal for any individual to return or mail another individual’s absentee ballot application or their absentee ballot. This practice, known as ballot trafficking or ballot harvesting, is a dangerous practice that often leads to ballot traffickers stealing the votes…

Libertarians believe in the ideals that our nation was founded upon, notably liberty, freedom and individual responsibility for one’s actions, while fully recognizing the liberty, freedom and rights of all others. We oppose excessive government overreach into the private lives of free citizens. While the list of cases of government overreaches is excessively long, one…

  Recently Alabama passed a law as to where citizens of the state no longer have to have a permit to carry a concealed pistol. There was already an open carry law that allowed a person to carry a gun in a holster in the open, but if you were operating a motor vehicle, even…

Special to the News   Alabama Republican Party Chair John Wahl issued the following statement on the possible overturning of Roe v. Wade and the leak from the Supreme Court: “The sanctity of all human life, including the unborn, is one of the most important planks of the Republican Party platform. Without the right to life,…

Dear Editor, One of the most interesting and shocking bits of information that I gained once leaving childhood is that no matter how much a thing might matter to any given individual, that thing, in reality, might not matter at all in the enormous schemata of our whole solar system. Wishing on the first star…

  Did any of you notice anything new and exciting about last week’s edition of “The Coosa County News?” I actually didn’t notice it, but had it pointed out to me. I’m going to refer to three different columns from last week, but they are NOT the new and special, so think about it and…

For more than 150 years, every president of the United States, as well as every governor of Alabama, has been either a Democrat or a Republican. Just two political points of view. The same is true, as well, for almost every other political office that one can imagine. Left or right alone, without any consideration…

  Alabama’s unemployment rate just matched the lowest in the history of the state. At 2.9 percent, it tied the all-time record low reached in pre-pandemic 2019. This is an amazing statistic that other states wish they could duplicate and shows the efforts state and business leaders are making  to return Alabama back to better economic…