Anniston City Councilman Ben Little is right.

Everything about Anniston Army Depot’s good news this week is splendid. Except, of course, this:

Alabama has known shame before, deep, embedded embarrassment that lingers like a chronic disease. But nothing since the days of George Wallace and Bull Connor has shrouded Alabama with as much shame as the anti-abortion bill Gov. Kay Ivey signed into law Wednesday.

Thank God for Louisiana.

A question for Alabamians: Are you confident that the state Legislature can orchestrate a successful overhaul of public education?

The Army closed Fort Devens, about an hour’s drive from Boston, in 1996. It closed Fort McClellan three years later. The unmistakable redevelopment differences that separate these two former military posts remain firmly in place. And the reasons are clear.

In state capitals all across the land, Republicans are gleefully using women as pawns in their political game. So deep is their desire to overturn the Roe v. Wade abortion ruling that they’re oblivious to their lunacy.

Fifteen in 15 months.

Let’s thank Alabama Rep. John Rogers, D-Birmingham, for his despicable comments about the state’s proposed abortion legislation. He’s done us a favor.

Alabama’s prisons are cesspools of violence, rape, black-market commerce, extortion, suicide and mismanagement. They’re understaffed and overwhelmed. Alabamians have heard that condemnation with alarming regularity from journalists, activists and most recently the U.S. Department of Justice.…

State lawmakers leading Alabama’s latest crusade against legal abortions want us to believe their effort is about preserving life, at all costs, in virtually all situations. Life over women’s reproductive rights, we might add. But that’s not the whole story.

The immigration crisis on our southern border cannot be dismissed as politics, but politics, to be sure, is exacerbating the problem. And not just U.S. politics.

Alabama doesn’t need a statewide lottery. It needs better public schools and lower poverty rates and properly run prisons and improved infrastructure and a host of other things — some massive, others less so but nonetheless important. But a lottery isn’t a must-have.

No life-support system exists for the Alabama Democratic Party. If it dies, it dies. Alabama Republicans, dominant and omnipresent, wouldn’t dare try CPR, nor should they. Politics aren’t that kind.

Welcome to Anniston, Matthew Alexander.

Alabama Sen. Del Marsh says he’s not running for Congress. “I’m not running, and I’ve not made any plans to run,” he has told The Star. That may tamp down the swirls of conjecture. But it doesn’t answer this question: What’s up with Del Marsh?

Alabama’s First Class Pre-K is the nation’s best pre-kindergarten program — again. Thirteen years in a row, so says the National Institute for Early Education Research. It’s an astounding feat. But if our state can do pre-K right, and do it right for so long, why is it so lacking in other cr…

There is no single reason why Anniston City Schools suffer from financial pain, post unremarkable academic results and operate too many facilities for a system of its size. Blame is widespread.

Should irredeemable Roy Moore run for Congress, he’ll back Alabama Republicans into a dark corner from which escape will require Election Day risk or luck, or perhaps both. What would Alabama Republicans rather have: Moore in Congress or U.S. Sen. Doug Jones, D-Birmingham, re-elected?

With the Alabama Legislature, a deliberative body scarred by its repetitive and self-inflicted sins, inaction can count as victory. Alabamians often win when legislators fail. This is one of those times.

At risk of sounding like a pom-pom-waving cheerleader whose objectivity is imminently debatable, we’ll nonetheless ask: Why not Alabama?

Filming has wrapped in Anniston for The Devil All The Time, the Netflix flick that’s not about the Anniston City Council. But imagine if it were.