Location, location, location. That’s the old rule in real estate, right? You can have the best house in the worst neighborhood and...
The harm to our economy caused by Joe Biden's socialist wish list is growing worse every day. Self-inflicted crises have dominated...
1819 News, Eagle Forum, LOCAL Alabama, and Thatcher Coalition hosted a gubernatorial forum in Birmingham last week. It’s political...
Several years ago, I wrote a blog about how nations rule over their people. It was a contrast between the Communist dictatorships of...
University of Alabama alumni, indeed most Alabamians, delight in the high caliber of Crimson Tide athletics. Coach Nick Saban consistently...
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” No truer words have ever been spoken. I am worried that the Alabama...
Recently, abortion-related news has been somewhat quiet in Alabama, but not around the rest of the country. At the federal level, it’s...
The last few years in the Alabama legislature, well, they haven’t been great. As soon as the new members were voted into office in...
I‘ve been clear on the record: Joe Biden disappoints me every day when he wakes up in the morning. Last week during his first State...
This is part 2 of a 3-part series on the successful strategy of Frederick Douglass, our country’s greatest American Dream Story. These...
On Tuesday, the Alabama House of Representatives passed an $8.17 billion Education Trust Fund (ETF) budget for fiscal year 2023. The...
It was a terrible bet. Atlanta Falcons receiver put down $1,500 on a three-game parlay last November. It cost him $11.1 million. That’s...
"We're monitoring the situation closely." That statement was of little comfort to Chris and me. Well. Me. Chris was cool. I, however,...
Administrators, teachers and elected officials, I’d like to let you in on a little something that you should already know: parents...
Where the old rhyme “sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never harm me” draws a true and useful distinction, it misses...
Scott Stantis lives in Birmingham and is currently the editorial cartoonist for The Chicago Tribune. He previously was the staff cartoonist...
Priorities of work. That’s a military term used in the Infantry to denote those things that have to take place in a certain order because,...
Last week the Alabama Senate passed a $2.7 billion State General Fund budget, the largest in Alabama history. The budget passed by...
Had she lived, the Queen of Soul would have been 80-years-old this month. For at least 60 of her 76 years, Aretha Franklin shared her...
I was talking with a professional counselor recently and he confirmed something I had heard. Modern psychology believes in the inherent...
We missed Opening Day. At least, some of us did. Major League Baseball’s Opening Day was “postponed,’’ according to MLB, due to a work-stoppage,...
Scott Stantis lives in Birmingham and is currently the editorial cartoonist for The Chicago Tribune and USA Today. He previously was...
Hot in the legislature this week: House Bill 272, which would allow adult citizens in good standing to conceal their firearms without...
The backdrop for President Joe Biden’s State of the Union lecture may have been the House chamber, but it occurred in an alternate...
Wednesday, the Alabama House Ways and Means Education committee approved a bill to provide an additional $1.3 billion in funding for...
Despite the best efforts to exercise appropriate vigilance and provide guidance, my firstborn son yielded to the enticement of marijuana...
This is part 1 of a 3-part series on the successful strategy of Frederick Douglass, our country’s greatest American Dream Story. These...