In addition to having 46 million people without health insurance, Examiner’s Ryan Witt says statistics from the Congressional Budget Office suggest that, by the time I’m 60 and my children are in their...

Did you know that Mercedes Benz is consistently ranked as one of the safest car makers? Although the automobile manufacturer has a reputation for luxurious, high-performance vehicles, their products are...

In short: The issue of legalizing bingo in Alabama should be decided by voters. In an editorial in Sunday’s Tuscaloosa News, state Sen. Roger Bedford, R-Russellville, proposed putting what he described...

If there’s one phrase I got sick of during this year’s SGA campaign, it was “perception is reality.” The problem with hating that phrase is that it’s too true to ignore. Perception really is...

Editor’s note: This is the second column in a two-part series. In the presence of a constitution that restricts local decision-making and centralizes power in Montgomery, Alabama’s citizens need to...

In a little less than a month’s time, my days as an elected official in the SGA will be over. My time as a senator has been rewarding in countless ways, and I plan to continue to serve through the remainder...

In short: For a law that does little other than enforce the religious and moral belief of a few, the Sunday alcohol sales ban stirs a lot of controversy. While the argument that lifting Tuscaloosa County’s...

On Monday, I went to the viewing of a documentary titled “Vincent Who?” detailing the brutal murder of Vincent Chin in 1982. On a June evening, Chin and his friends were enjoying his bachelor party...

Whenever I tell someone I don’t drink, I always get the same response. “Oh, so you’re one of those hardcore Christians,” they say. The sad part about that statement is not that everyone drinks,...

During the six years I have been on this campus, the Student Government Association has come to resemble, in my mind, a predator that wounds prey and then allows its young to finish that prey off. The...

In short: When a student organization is requiring its members to vote for certain people, democracy is not served, and officials need to stop covering for these organizations. Just as Americans have...

George Orwell proposed that the best way to obfuscate a fact is to simply state the opposite. Republican strategists must be taking notes, because they’re now labeling the Democrats’ attempt to pass...