The state of Georgia is getting push back against legislative efforts to strengthen the integrity of their elections.

The Alabama Senate approved a record $7.6 billion education budget that was $400 million more than the previous year. Not only was it the largest budget to fund education in state history, but it also included a 2 percent pay raise for all public school employees.

It has now been a year since March 13, 2020, when the first reported case of the coronavirus was made public in Alabama.

In 1971, I had the opportunity to ride my bicycle around Europe for nine months, staying in youth hostels and cheap hotels. It was a great adventure!

There are no words, but I have to find 250 to speak about Trump's breach of trust, democracy, the Constitution, sworn duties and obligations, justice and his madness.

Now that there have been two vaccines approved for emergency use in the United States to protect against the coronavirus by the Federal Drug Administration, all eyes will be on the states as to how they will distribute the drugs.

It has been speculated for several years that Alabama could lose a congressional seat after the 2020 census. 

Much has been said about leaving the hurt and disappointment of 2020 behind and welcoming 2021.

Everyday, all day long, they tell us how many people have caught COVID-19 and how many have died from it. Not once do you give the percentage of those that have caught it and survived it, which is the majority.

Those who hate Trump can be happy, but they will see this country be destroyed, and it will affect them as well as those Americans who use to believe in justice and the American way. 

Had he stood up and led as he should have in the wake of his defeat, Trump could have left town well-positioned to make another presidential run in four years. Instead, the way he has conducted himself the last two months will stick to him the way Watergate did Nixon.

As we close the book on 2020, we will close the door on national politics and get back to the basics, good old Alabama politics.  

The attorney general and the corrections system should strongly push back if the DOJ wants to force the state to release prisoners who could be a danger to the public. 

As this 2020 presidential election year comes to a close, allow me to share some final thoughts on the results with you.

Sen. Richard Shelby finally speaks out about the massive amount of cheating that has taken place in the 2020 election. He says it’s time to accept cheating and move on without investing any and all accusations and incidences.

In the past couple of weeks, many Auburn football fans were shocked and angered upon learning that football coach Gus Malzahn had been fired. 

When Black on Black crime occurs, there is a deafening silence that comes over the Black community. Sometimes, we witness the crime and will not say a word. How long, Black Talladega, can we continue to be silent?

While neighboring Georgia has become a purple state, Alabama will clearly continue to be ruby red for the foreseeable future. 

These shoes of Auschwitz are a stark reminder of just how cruel and inhuman we can be to our fellow man.

Why blame the Confederacy for slavery in America when the Confederacy only exsisted for four years, while slavery had exsisted on this continent long before the founding of America?

The pandemic goes on with ever-rising numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths. Does the current president now focus on the health and welfare of Americans? Does he move on and work for the good of all? No.

It was during the waning days of the 2020 election that a dear friend and I agreed to step up and answer the clarion call of civil duty. We decided to volunteer as poll watcher supervisors in our rural Alabama community.