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On the Mark | Opelika sports scene heats up with Media Days, Youth World Series
BY D MARK MITCHELL OPINION — The countdown is on for the 2025 FOX Sports 910-1310 “The Game” High School Media Days, proudly presented by The Orthopaedic Clinic. This two-day blitz of local high school football teams will take place July 29 and 30...

Hyde Park Square project is stifled by politics, and a sidewalk | Opinion
In nearly every major American city, we see the same pattern: the neighborhoods worth revitalizing can’t be touched, the deals that make economic sense get kneecapped and the people who want real progress are told to wait for process, for...

Travel Tuesday: Boston's Mapparium
This summer people will be traveling all around the globe. But only in one Boston museum can people travel inside the globe. The Mary Baker Eddy Library is a stunning 11-story limestone and granite building that holds the papers of Mary Baker...

How The U.S. Government's "Big Beautiful Bill" Will Impact Travel
The contentious tax cuts and spending bill could imperil the turnout of international inbound travel in the U.S., a tumultuous era for the travel industry, according to some tourism groups, especially since American tourism is still trying to...

La Tuberculose en Gambie : Silencieuse mais en Expansion, Révèle le Dr Jobe
Par: Esi Ejoh Le Dr Musa Jobe, médecin exerçant sur la route côtière dans la région de la West Coast, a exprimé son inquiétude face à la menace croissante de la tuberculose (TB) en Gambie, soulignant que les habitudes quotidiennes ordinaires...

Guest View: Sharing disinformation on social media is wrong
Social media has evolved from a way to exchange information and update family and friends on our lives to become a hive of disinformation. That’s why responsible individuals should be careful what they share. Within a day after Pope Leo assumed...

Cal Thomas | Politics in the pulpit
The Internal Revenue Service announced last week it is overturning a restraint on churches and other houses of worship that was supposed to keep them from endorsing candidates for political office. The root of the ban extends back to 1954....

A Quiet Shift in D.C. Could Detonate the Next Bitcoin ETF Rally
Investing Chinnapong / Shutterstock.com Key Points There’s the CLARITY Act, which could provide a framework for the digital assets industry. There’s also the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act, which would keep the U.S. Federal Reserve from issuing...

Wenatchee grapples with growth as downtown businesses voice concerns amid new development
Luana Beauty Lounge and Boutique is located on the east side of Wenatchee Avenue on Thursday, July 10, in downtown Wenatchee near Weidner’s construction zone. Owner Ivy Bailey said she supports any growth in the community. World photo/Jacob Ford...
Job Opportunities for Legal Fellows
I am happy to pass along two job opportunities for new and recent law school graduates. First, the Institute for Free Speech is hiring First Amendment fellows. The Institute for Free Speech's First Amendment Fellowship allows recent law school...

tIllinois bets on solar to meet its climate goals. Trump has the industry in his crosshairs.
President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans earlier this month curtailed federal tax incentives for the solar energy industry and for individuals and companies that purchase solar panels. The move sent shockwaves through the industry...

‘Disrupted a market’: Va. professor uses baseball entertainment craze Savannah Bananas as lesson in business
A Virginia professor says the Savannah Bananas are more than entertainment and their model is a lesson in business. This page contains a video which is being blocked by your ad blocker. In order to view the video you must disable your ad blocker....

Democratic States, D.C. Sue Trump Administration
(MENAFN) Twenty-four states led by Democrats, along with the District of Columbia, have initiated a legal challenge against the Trump administration’s choice to suspend $6 billion in financial support designated for after-school initiatives,...

How Trump’s ‘One, Big Beautiful Bill’ will impact jobs, investment in rural NC
In the mountains of western NC, local renewable energy company Sugar Hollow Solar is already working through contingency plans to avoid laying off staff. by Julia Tilton, The Daily Yonder July 14, 2025 In the mountains of western North Carolina,...

The power of the ‘C’ word
The Oxford philosopher of language J L Austin died on 8 February 1960, just months after receiving a ‘grave’ diagnosis. His friend Isaiah Berlin called it a ‘dead secret’ – Austin himself had ‘no idea’ how little time was left. As Hilary term...

3 Franklin County students head to Washington D.C. for Girls/Boys Nation
FRANKLIN COUNTY — This week, three of the four students representing Vermont at Girls and Boys Nation in Washington D.C. will be from Franklin County. Molly Bernard and Jacoby Soter from BFA-St. Albans and Abby Durkee from Missisquoi Valley Union...

CPB: Majority of Voters Trust Public Media More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on the Rescissions Act of 2025, the cancellation of some $1.1 billion in already approved funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has sent many NPR and PBS member stations...

‘It’s not just a drill’: inside one B.C. community’s grassroots wildfire response
It’s just after 9 a.m. on an overcast May morning and I’m standing in the Argenta fire shed, clipboard in hand, when my radio crackles. “Alex from Hans, Alex from Hans, it looks like the fire is less than an acre at this point,” the voice says. “I...

D&E President’s, Dean’s Lists released
Submitted photo Davis & Elkins College has released the president’s and dean’s list for the Spring 2025 semester. ELKINS — Davis & Elkins College has released the president’s and dean’s list for the Spring 2025 semester. The president’s list...

Trump accuses Schiff of mortgage fraud, which Schiff calls false 'political retaliation'
President Trump on Tuesday accused Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) of committing mortgage fraud by intentionally misleading lenders about his primary residence being in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., rather than California, in order to “get a...