Category: Columns

Lirona Joshi Staff Writer Every morning at 8 a.m., I wake up to the sound of my parents calling on my phone. These days there are no greetings, no good mornings – just plain questions: “How are you?” and “Did you stay home?” We have adapted to a routine where I answer the questions about the news they heard on the television during the day and clarify what the reported statistics mean. They are worried, there is a global pandemic, and their daughter is 8,000 miles away and cannot return…

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Sam Stroud Staff Writer As the global pandemic of COVID-19 sweeps across the Western World, some media voices and politicians have attempted to use the pandemic as a reason to grow the federal government’s reach and power. Such an attempt was made in one of the recently abandoned stimulus bills, in which House Democrats attempted to make paid sick leave a permanent requirement on small businesses going forward. That action, and others like it, to tighten federal requirements on the private sector, are completely and wholly antithetical to the lessons…

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Scott Shelton Sports Editor In a worldwide crisis, people need to cooperate with authorities and work together to find the solutions necessary for the problem at hand. However, progress is deterred when the leader of your country downplays the issue and proclaims the opposing political party is trying to use it against him. That sounds like something that would happen in an authoritarian country, but it happened here in the United States. On Jan. 22, President Trump, in an interview with CNBC, said that he was not worried about COVID-19,…

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Sam Stroud Staff Writer In the middle of a global pandemic, Alabama has political issues to tackle. Alabama’s GOP must decide on March 31, who will challenge incumbent Democratic Senator Doug Jones. Jones was handed the seat on a silver platter after the state GOP nominated an alleged pedophile in 2017 to replace Jeff Sessions, who had been selected to be Trump’s Attorney General. I want to congratulate the Alabama GOP for giving its own party two nominees that are leaps and bounds better than Roy Moore. Whoever wins this…

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Scott Shelton Sports Editor If there are constants in life, they are death, taxes, billionaires burning money trying to buy elections and old people showing up in droves to vote in elections.  The Democratic primary changed dramatically on Super Tuesday with former Vice President Joe Biden winning nine of the 15 contests voting last night with the help of strong showings from black voters and the senior vote. Biden winning the plurality of states doesn’t necessarily seal the nomination for himself. What matters more is the margin of victories and…

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