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Bob Davis: Improved schools stuck on the shelf
Speaking last week about the federal dollars allotted by Congress that will assist ailing schools around the nation, Alabama Superintendent of Education Joe Morton called the state’s $149 million share “a salvation for many school systems to get through the year. I don’t know what we would have done if it hadn’t come.” (As the AP noted, only one Alabama congressman, Rep. Artur Davis, D-Birmingham, voted for the lifeline to schools feeling the pinch of shrinking budgets.)
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H. Brandt Ayers: Russia in a jam
It was shortly before Thanksgiving, 1975, and the mood in my Moscow hotel room couldn’t have been more bleak. Clouds so low, almost level with my fifth floor room, were spitting a light snow as I transcribed a taped recording of the Soviet nuclear physicist and dissident Andrei Sakharov.
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Phillip Tutor: Katrina, Starships — and us
The tale of Hurricane Katrina and McClellan’s ill-fated Starships barracks is one of those quintessential Anniston stories. Five years later, the divisive remnants haven’t completely disappeared.
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H. Brandt Ayers: The glacial Senate
One spring day in 1964, I rose from a red leather couch in the press lounge of the U.S. Senate, where the cushions bore permanent impressions from reportorial rears past, and wandered out to the gallery to watch debate on the civil rights bill.
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Bob Davis: Some rights worth defending
We dare defend our rights. Really?
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Phillip Tutor: Recalling the Wakefield way
Twenty-something years ago, an editor at The Star thought it’d be wise to dispatch me to a clothing store on Quintard Avenue, where I’d learn a little about Anniston High, Coach “Chink” Lott and the boys — now men — who played for him.
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Harvey H. Jackson: 'Reality' on the Redneck Riviera
Disclaimer: I have never watched more than bits and pieces of Jersey Shore. And the few times I did, my only thought was, “well, at least they are making someone other than Southerners look like a bunch of (bleeping) fools.” I shoulda known better.
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H. Brandt Ayers: Bring back confederacy — The legacy of John C. Calhoun
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Every time I drive down from our retreat in the cool North Carolina mountains and cross the South Carolina line, I experience a sudden, momentary, but profound sense of gloom.
Bob Davis: Behold Alabama's teacher tax
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In 2001, President George W. Bush and congressional Republicans had money burning a hole in their pockets. Bush's predecessor, Bill Clinton, had left behind a projected $5 trillion budget surplus, and the R's in Congress and the White House had a plan for the loot. A massive tax cut resulted, one that in order to pass fiscal muster came with a time limit; the tax cuts would expire at the end of 2010.
Phillip Tutor: Getting Anniston into the top 10
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Donna Satterlee Ross lives in Anniston. Proudly, I might add. "My goal," she told me, "is to see Anniston in the top 10 cities in America in 2020." OK, then. Sounds like a splendid, if not wildly optimistic, goal.
Harvey H. Jackson: Year of the pretty populist
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Not long ago, The Anniston Star ran a dandy op-ed column by Doyle McManus of the Los Angles Times titled “2010: Year of the Conservative Woman?” It was about how the GOP was going after the female vote by — guess what —running women for office.
H. Brandt Ayers: What about rednecks?
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At first they laughed, but then a look of baffled disdain appeared on the faces of colleagues on a Harvard advisory board when I said, “There’s one group we’ve overlooked. What about rednecks?”
Bob Davis: Seeking civility in American discourse
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The setting at Samford University’s Brock Recital Hall a couple of weeks ago was almost perfect. The air-conditioning was working on full blast, a must for late July in Alabama.
Phillip Tutor: Anniston, an inquiry — and Oxford?
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Things you can do while waiting for the next installment of CSI: Anniston, otherwise known as the Anniston City Council’s corruption inquiry.
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