The University of Alabama system hired Rep. Jo Bonner as its lobbyist just months after he was reelected to the U.S. Congress. He is the brother of University of Alabama President Judy Bonner. UAS employees ...
“Let’s go for a picnic,” I said to my wife the other day. We went for a picnic at the top of a mountain. We argued a little first.
Editor’s note: I am from Mobile, Ala. I graduated from the University of Alabama in 2005 and married a beautiful Alabama gal. I have roots there and care about its future. At last the University ...
I volunteered for the DeKalb History Center during this year’s Decatur Arts Festival. I sat behind a long table stacked with pamphlets about the History Center, which is located inside the historic DeKalb Courthouse on ...
Walking home on Saturday I passed crowd of people gathered around a man on the Church Street sidewalk. I stopped to join them. Gary Simpson-cox, wearing a tee-shirt and long shorts, sat cross-legged behind paintings ...
One day Isaac Newton, a man so brilliant he had to partially lobotomize himself just so he could stand the company of others, was sitting beneath a tree. That date of that day wasn’t written ...
The nation bought into the hype when Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008. Many of us believed, for a time, President Obama meant what he said on the campaign trail. We believed, or maybe ...
At the Weavehouse in Decatur the looms clack together in an unsynchronized chorus. The half dozen workers, mostly women, turn scraps of garments into works of art. Tee-shirts and old sheets become rugs, belts, and ...
The Daily Home editorial board used the word “nepotism” in a June 2 editorial about the University of Alabama System’s recent hiring U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner, R-Mobile. Jo Bonner is the younger brother of University ...