Scott Shelton Sports Editor In Alabama, we typically use our neighbor to the west, Mississippi, as a scapegoat to make ourselves feel better about the current situations of our state. But during the current COVID-19 pandemic, even Mississippi is showing better leadership by having a shelter-in-place order to try and flatten the curve of the virus. Read More

Asem Abdelfattah Opinion Editor Two years ago, I moved into a house that did not have window blinds. Not that it had inadequate ones, it had absolutely no way to block sunlight whatsoever. To make matters worse – or ironically brighter – the  window in my room was more than 70 inches wide and 50 inches Read More

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 Read More

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 Read More