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Bob Davis: Remember Alabama? Who can forget it?
Unless he’s standing alongside Nick Saban at a White House Rose Garden ceremony celebrating another national championship for the Crimson Tide, President Donald Trump mentioning Alabama is likely something to → Read More
Bob Davis: Elite? No. Important? Yes.
Last weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner did what White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) Dinners seem to almost always do: Provide fodder for the nation’s manufacturers of outrage. → Read More
Bob Davis: Children and their protection
For most of us, encountering a judge is something we’d rather not do. It usually means we are looking at a stretch on jury duty or something worse involving criminal → Read More
Bob Davis: Buffcoat, Beaver and Zuckerberg
Once upon a time, a crude TV cartoon was seen as the thing that would destroy America. Let us pause here in today’s climate of tweeted threats to hostile nations → Read More
Bob Davis: We need an entire country that’s ‘optimistic, diverse, dynamic’
Speaking during a trip to India last month, Hillary Clinton offered her views on her failed bid for the presidency in 2016. → Read More
Bob Davis: My favorite Le Grand Orange story
There’s really no way for me to confirm my favorite story about Rusty Staub, but I trust its source. → Read More
Bob Davis: Newsroom job-shadowers weather the storm
Meet Christiana Stephens and Zuleika Martinez, a pair of Sacred Heart Catholic School students who picked a heck of a week to job-shadow Anniston Star journalists. → Read More
Bob Davis: Taking aim at open government
When we last visited the next step in improving Alabama’s open-government laws, state lawmakers were challenged to use a 2013 gun law as a model of better informing the public → Read More
Bob Davis: Development bill admits sad fact about Alabama
A bill making its way through the Alabama Legislature would loosen ethics requirements for economic developers. The measure passed the House last week and is now headed to the Senate. → Read More
Bob Davis: The fruit of civic production
The official name of the event Thursday at the Anniston City Meeting Center was the American Values Luncheon. It was part celebration and part fundraiser for the Boy Scouts of → Read More
Bob Davis: In 1965, there wasn't an app for that
Jimmie Lee Jackson, a 26-year-old black man taking part in a civil rights protest, was shot by an Alabama state trooper on the evening of Feb. 18, 1965, in Marion. → Read More
Bob Davis: There's a game in here somewhere
At some point during the fourth quarter of the 1978 Super Bowl, it occurred to your faithful correspondent, then a teenager, that this game was something less than it had → Read More
Bob Davis: Beware your smartphone
It’s time for some of us to treat our smartphones like the new kid in your junior high class. Until you really know him/her and can really trust him/her, it’s → Read More
Bob Davis: Coach Ivey’s next move
On Tuesday evening, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey presented her State of the State address, claiming that “we have successfully steadied the ship of state; I declare that the state of → Read More
Bob Davis: Alabama's Nick Saban for president ... or not
Three reasons Alabama football coach Nick Saban, whose team will compete for the national championship Monday evening against Georgia, should run for president in 2020. → Read More
Bob Davis: Sharp focus of reporting on a difficult story
As an editor, I’ve always followed a rule of thumb: Never promise that a story will be published until it is ready to be published. → Read More
Bob Davis: Aliens vs. fifth-graders
In the mid-1970s, a pair of fifth-grade boys were inspired by a Weekly Reader article on UFOs. The gist of the brief item was how easy it was to demonstrate → Read More
Bob Davis: Alabama's ballot-box wakeup call
For most of our history, Alabamians have preferred one-party rule in our politics. From the late 1800s until the early part of this century, Democrats were dominant. In many cases, → Read More
Bob Davis: What did he say?
In the 2003 mockumentary film A Mighty Wind, one character explains to the camera his offbeat religious practices as represented by Witches In Nature’s Colors (WINC). → Read More
Bob Davis: With apologies to Ray Charles, Alabama is on my mind
During the 1960s, comedian Flip Wilson did a routine about Christopher Columbus discovering the New World. But which asset of the New World is the selling point? The comic had → Read More