The Decatur School Board won’t reveal the name of an investigator who’s looking into an embarrassing situation for City Schools of Decatur. Board members also won’t say if the investigator is being paid. Susan Riley, ...
This post has been updated. Governments are owned by the people they serve. The people may not realize it, or may not feel that it is truly theirs, but it is. Because governments are owned by ...
There’s a certain amount of poetic justice in seeing Donald Trump, king of the jerkasses, upending the GOP presidential primary. I have a few GOP candidates that I like this year. Oddly enough, I like ...
Whenever a politician wants to tell the truth, they ask reporters not to write it down. That’s the essence of what “off the record” really means. Politicians, as a general rule, don’t trust the public ...
We were on I-85 South, headed toward Montgomery, Ala. on the second stretch of the Tour de Baby. My infant son, J.P., was in the car seat and I was sitting next to him in ...
Approximately one year ago, I got an email from someone named Dena Mellick. “If you think my copy editing experience at CNN and other local organizations could be of use to you and Decaturish, please ...
Mitch Hedberg once quipped that he never waved at a stranger, because what if they didn’t have hands? Then he’d just look cocky. I feel a little cocky showing off a picture of my newborn ...
This story has been updated. Somewhere along the way, our country gave up on education. I don’t mean people stopped caring about it. There are people who have made careers out of caring about it. ...
True leadership doesn’t always translate into victory. I think people forget that sometimes, especially football fans, Alabama fans in particular. The wins come easily for us now under Nick Saban’s tenure. We are so unaccustomed ...
Reporters should tell the truth, at least to the best of our ability, even when the truth isn’t all that pretty. I felt pretty good about the results of my first year. Not everything panned out ...