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All hail the Gallant 54? ‘You can’t hide stupidity,’ says lawmaker who wrote 2012 Shroud Award winner
Every year, the Alabama House of Representatives, in one last flurry of frivolity, presents the “Shroud Award” to the legislator who introduces a bill so doomed to defeat that it should have been declared “dead on arrival.”
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Defenses against same-sex unions
President Obama has embraced same-sex marriage. What now? The response to Obama’s public support will run from adulation to revulsion. How should people who are religious respond?
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A wonderful Anniston brunch
We have just left Classic on Noble after having a wonderful Mother’s Day brunch with my beautiful 96-year-old mother in Anniston. There we met the sweetest lady, Betty Carr. What a jewel you have representing your city.
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Liberty at stake: Supreme Court has opportunity to properly handle Siegelman’s case
by The Anniston Star Editorial Board
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When prosecutors look at former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman they must see a version of Pig-Pen, the Peanuts comics figure constantly obscured by a cloud of dust. Look at that dirty mess, we can hear prosecutors exclaiming. There must be something illegal going on.
Same as it ever was: You may ask yourself, can Montgomery change its ways?
by The Anniston Star Editorial Board
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When Democrats ran state government, political promises were quickly forgotten, squabbling began and parochial interests took control.
Stop the grave flower-robbing
by our readers
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There is no way I can describe the following story with the emphasis I would like and expect it to be published in your newspaper.
Dangerous intersection
by our readers
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On the first day the intersection of Henry Road and Veterans Memorial Parkway in Golden Springs opened, I pointed out the danger of the poor design.
Chernobyl: Of zombies and hope
by Glen Browder
Special to The Star
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In a few days, Hollywood premiers Chernobyl Diaries, a horror movie about six teenaged “extreme tourists” who visit the radioactive hotspot on vacation, only to discover that the place is populated by mutant zombies.
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