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Allen Mendenhall: DEI's days in the corporate world are numbered |
3+ hour, 51+ min ago (581+ words) The arc of progressive corporate governance, it turns out, bends toward conservative accountability " when sufficiently prodded. For four decades, federal contracting imposed race and sex preferences on corporations, burdening taxpayers with real costs while substituting demographic arithmetic for merit. Corporations…...
Crowd goes wild as Nick Saban joins Morgan Wallen for 'Still the
3+ hour, 51+ min ago (274+ words) TUSCALOOSA " Saturday night, the University of Alabama hosted its first concert in over three decades with Morgan Wallen, Ella Langley, Vincent Mason and Zach John King taking to the stage. The day of the concert looked like a gameday around…...
Weekend Recap: No. 11 Alabama baseball avoids sweep, drops two of
16+ hour, 8+ min ago (481+ words) No. 11 Alabama baseball dropped a second straight weekend series with a series loss against No. 4 Texas. The Crimson Tide did their best to try and salvage the series, taking the finale on Sunday to avoid a second straight sweep. Sunday's…...
Mike Schramm: How to be a good friend according to Aristotle
18+ hour, 51+ min ago (288+ words) Aristotle speaks of philia, the love of friendship, in his famous work, "Nicomachean Ethics." According to Aristotle's ethical framework, there are virtues that should guide a person's actions, even an action that many consider morally neutral like choosing a friend....
Annie Holmquist: Raising autonomous children starts at the dinner
18+ hour, 51+ min ago (490+ words) The family was having dinner, but all was not well. The stillness of my father's sandbox foray was broken by the deep voice of Mr. Johnson bellowing " presumably at his young daughter Susie " "EAT" YOUR" SUPPER!" Mr. Johnson's firm insistence…...
Tax the rich: NEA advertises May Day marches in Alabama " No ICE,
18+ hour, 32+ min ago (455+ words) The National Education Association (NEA) is advertising May Day protests and marches across Alabama, with the aim of a one-day economic boycott to oppose Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and call for taxing "the rich." The NEA has begun advertising…...
KCarl Smith: Alabama built the rocket that took us back to the moon |
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (538+ words) On the evening of April 10, more than 1, 000 people filled Big Spring Park in downtown Huntsville. They came with their kids, their lawn chairs, and their phones held high. They were not there for a concert or a football game. They…...
Weekend Recap: No. 6 Auburn baseball picks up first series win in
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (1155+ words) No. 6 Auburn baseball picked up its first series win in Gainesville since 2013 with a 2-1 series win over No. 7 Florida this weekend at Condron Family Ballpark. Auburn dropped game one 6-3, bounced back with a gutsy 5-3 win in the middle game and…...
International Hot Rod Association moves upcoming Montgomery race to
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (195+ words) 1819 News is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Alabama Policy Institute, which has been one of the strongest voices in the state, promoting and preserving Alabama Values for 33 years. Oversight for 1819 News is provided by a separate not-for-profit board of…...
Jeff Minick: The necessity of becoming your own internal cheerleader
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (182+ words) And that's when I began talking to myself." Normally, we associate such conversations as a sign of craziness, witnessed in some homeless person weaving down the street while gesticulating and talking to the air. We might also think of some…...