OPINION | While safer than smoking cigarettes, vaping still isn’t safe
BySo is it actually cool to Juul in Auburn? Or is it indicative of bigger problems worth discussing.
So is it actually cool to Juul in Auburn? Or is it indicative of bigger problems worth discussing.
While everything else can look bleak, the goodness of people is what you see the most. That’s what I will remember about Auburn — a community made up of good people, people with flaws, but good people nonetheless.
There is a nationwide problem with survivors not feeling comfortable enough to report.
City Council’s inaction and undue amendments trample on the last hope to protect what little remaining community Northwest Auburn’s residents have.
Doughty took the most difficult situation and made something positive out of it. He represented the Auburn Family with pride and showed what it truly means to be an Auburn man.
The fact that our players controlled their unimaginable and justified frustration speaks volumes about their character. It also means that if they aren't angry with the refs, we can't be either.
The idea of a “moderate” Democrat or Republican has been on the decline for several years now and is only getting worse.
Alabama’s budget is sorely needing sources of funding. No longer can the state face more budget cuts, and Alabama’s politicians are unwilling to increase the state’s main tax sources.
Alabama’s healthcare system is floundering. In eight years, 13 of Alabama’s hospitals have closed. Seven of them were in rural areas. These hospitals were serving Alabama’s poorest — meaning they count on state or federal dollars, through Medicaid, to compensate for the lack of funding from their patients.
Auburn’s basketball program is now one of the best basketball programs in the SEC, and five years ago, nobody would have guessed that would be the case. Auburn's a basketball school now.
It goes without saying that a moderator has never asked a male actor how he’s coping with playing unlikable men. The burden of monitoring one’s likability is decidedly a female one.
Two things can happen when tragedies like this occur. A community can separate and fail or come together and rise. Lee County has chosen the latter.
The Auburn City Council was given an opportunity to prevent this encroachment of student houses into historically single-family neighborhoods but instead chose to table a vote on an ordinance pertaining to ADDUs, thereby prolonging gentrification.
Evangelical Christianity is losing the battle and most of the war, even as it believes it is prevailing. The short-term effects of its obsession with political power are obvious. This distraction brings disastrous long-term effects as well. We see them now, and they’re not pretty.
The rabbit hole that led me to Tatum arrived not by way of a desire to explore the forces that are pushing out local independent businesses — although that came later — but out of pure personal frustration.
Last Thursday, 115 years after Lesseur's murder and 11 miles from Thomaston in the town of Linden, Alabama, a man wrote and published an editorial piece that called for the Ku Klux Klan to lynch public officials in Washington D.C.
Remnants of our violent, racist past linger with us today. They are not gone. The racism of today is generally more subtle. It is words spoken behind closed doors, sentences prefaced with, “I have a black friend” or “I am not racist, but,” and through empty apologies and denial.
For far too long there has been a belief among some men that if a woman is drunk, then she may as well be giving him consent to have sex with her. This is not just a problem on Auburn’s campus, but throughout the country.
The irony of Northam calling out fellow candidate during the 2017 gubernatorial race as a racist should not be lost on the American public, and democrats should no longer give Northam their support.
