Dear Senator:

For 15 centuries, the Christian Church profited from illiteracy and social chaos, indoctrinating and intimidating the gullible masses.

With President Trump’s pending impeachment inquiry investigation by the House, the Republicans are at a crossroads of decision-making: whether to stay a Trumpet or separate from him. However, the decision they make has consequences. Stay with Trump and they may lose their seats in Congress a…

This town is not “City of McClellan” nor is it “Oxford.” This town is ANNISTON with all its great residents and meaningful history.

Trump is abandoning Kurdish partners in Syria, sending a chilling message to every other American ally.

The Dems are at it again — using hearsay, even if that, to push an unvetted claim against a president they hate, simply due to his getting things done without the business as usual norm, i.e., the draining of the swamp. 

In regard to your story about Lylia’s, I met the photographer after the reporter had left her shop. I’ve been going to Lylia’s since 2002. First, my Sheltie then Jake. When I moved to Odenville in 2014, I still brought my golden doodle, Jake, to have his bathing and cutting at Lylia’s. Nobod…

On June 11, 1963, Gov. George Wallace stood at the portals of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama forbidding to permit two ladies to integrate and register for school. I was 11 years old and glued to our “black and white” TV with sympathy. I wanted so bad to go to Alabama myself a…

This past weekend on Sunday, Sept. 29, Shandrika Christopher of Anniston organized a photo shoot for breast cancer survivors Jackie Judkins, Temecha Williams and herself. They are all longtime residents of Calhoun County. Quad Cities volunteer Assistant Fire Chief B.R. Wilson, chairman of ea…

Our completely competent lawmakers and our politicians, who always get facts before they make laws, sit back and think about how they might hire new guards for our unconstitutional prison system and our inability to keep the issue from happening again, are taking bids to build new prisons, b…

Phillip Tutor, in “Who’s protecting human life in Alabama?” seeks to disassociate the passing of Alabama’s strictive abortion law from the statewide statistics that the reported abortions are decreasing in Alabama. He reports that between 2014 and 2017 the abortion rate fell 23 percent. In 2…

I personally wish to applaud Executive Editor Anthony Cook for again making the right decision in not publishing the identity of nine suspects in the JSU rape case. It is easy for the reading public to sit in judgment acting as "an armchair judge and juror" in criticizing what should and sho…

I am not advocating repealing the Second Amendment. If, however, you tell me we must accept a baby being hit with a random bullet spewed out of assault weapons as the cost of having a right to bear arms, then perhaps it is time to have that conversation. I will not accept that this is the be…

It is my pleasure to congratulate and commend our Anniston City Council’s recent showing of unity and good judgment in their “unanimous” vote to reject the proposal of Forward 4 All. Their action certainly demonstrates that the council CAN work together to push progress and harmony at City H…

Ben Little’s idea of a Civil Rights Museum, combined with honoring Dr. David Satcher in an institute, and, as Dr. Satcher desires, promoting solutions to the rampant health care needs of our people, can be a unifying cause for our community. 

We’ve been experiencing the effects of global warming for some time now, and it’s getting worse every year. Rising sea levels, increased coastal flooding, longer and more damaging wildfire seasons, more frequent and intense heat waves. The increase in extreme weather events. Growing risk to …

Re: “Prosecutors seeking feedback from victim’s family before inmate’s release hearing” (Anniston Star, Sept. 6) 

Human population growth is the ignored crocodile in the family swimming pool.

I came around the corner into the cat food aisle at Walmart to find The Brunette (just this once, I honor the local newspaper tradition of referring to wives by hair color) staring into space and mumbling something about tigers and elephants.

How you judge other people is the same judgment that will come back upon you. That is the reason God told us not to judge. God is the only one who can judge. Amplified Bible says in Matthew 7:1-2: (1) Do not judge and criticize and condemn others, so that you may not be judged and condemned …

William Barr booking at a Trump hotel for a $30,000 party is just the latest in political and taxpayer dollars spent at a Trump property.

Waking up, I had won the lottery, and I had not even bought a ticket. What do you make of that! I am still amazed that as a resident of Anniston I could be shipped off to Oxford-land without even a nod from me. Sneaky, I would say so. Underhanded, Yep!

I, Debra Parker Thomas, do hereby publicly apologize to Jane Cunningham for comments I made about her on Facebook in Feb and March 2018. It was not my intent to imply Ms. Cunningham did anything dishonest in her management of Cheaha Regional Humane Society. Specifically, I retract all statem…