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 Alabama’s leading Political Columnist Steve Flowers The 2018 legislative session will be short and sweet. It is an election year. Historically, during the last year of a quadrennium, the legislature convenes early and passes the budgets, then goes home and campaigns for reelection to another four year term.
Our forefathers, who wrote our 1901 Constitution must have been thinking the same thing because they designed for the fourth year of the quadrennium legislative session to start and end early. It is set by law to begin in early January, whereas it begins in February in most years. This year’s session began January 9 and can run through April 23. The consensus is that they will adjourn sine die earlier than the April deadline. Most observers believe that they will pass the budgets and be out of Montgomery by the end of March and home campaigning by April Fools’ Day. Continue reading Steve Flowers: This Week in Alabama Politics
MUSCLE SHOALS–Come see Mike and all the gang at Watson’s Furniture on Wilson Dam Road for all your furniture needs. They have the best deals and can hook you up with the best financing. Continue reading Watson’s Home Furniture has the Shoals Area’s best furniture DEALS
 FreightCar to take control of full manufacturing process at state-of-the-art Shoals facility BARTON — FreightCar America, Inc. announced today that it has entered into an asset purchase agreement with Navistar, Inc. (“Navistar”) to acquire substantially all of Navistar’s operating assets associated with its railcar operations at the Shoals facility near Cherokee, Alabama. The transaction is expected to close on or around February 28, 2018 subject to the conditions set forth in the asset purchase agreement.
“This acquisition will allow us to now control our own destiny and benefit from the full economics of all future railcars built within the Shoals facility,” said Jim Meyer, President and Chief Executive Officer. “This is good news for our customers, our brand, our products, our people and the Shoals community. I want to thank Navistar for the prior relationship and the Retirement Systems of Alabama, the owners of the facility, for its support in this transaction.” Continue reading FreightCar America buys Navistar, Inc.’s Railcar Operations at Shoals Facility
 Christian Author and Pastor Ron Craig
We Christians walk by faith, not by sight. So said Paul in 2 Corinthians 5:7. Well, what did Paul mean by that? Let us break that passage down into its components. WE obviously refers to us believers; we who have been born again—Bonafide Christians, not mere church members. We must face it: Many people who have their names on the role in different denominations have never been saved. They walk by sight, and not by faith. ONLYgenuine, born-again Christians are able to walk by faith! What does walk mean? Lifestyle! We do not exercise faith once in a while, but align our every decision and action to the faith. How many church members live that kind of lifestyle?
Continue reading Walk by Faith not by Sight
 Truck explosion behind Walmart (Shoals Insider) MUSCLE SHOALS–Saturday night was full of excitement at the Muscle Shoals Walmart for employees and customers alike. Around 8:00 pm one of the refrigerator trucks exploded behind the building sending flames and smoke high into the air. Continue reading Muscle Shoals Walmart evacuated after truck explosion
 Pat “Miss Kitty” Cartee MUSCLE SHOALS–The owner of one of the mainstays in Shoals area nightlife Pat Cartee has died at the age of 90. Continue reading Muscle Shoals businesswoman Miss Kitty dead at 90
FDA is advising caution to physicians about prescribing the antibiotic clarithromycin (Biaxin) to patients with heart disease because of a potential increased risk of heart problems or death that can occur years later. Clarithromycin is used to treat many types of infections affecting the skin, ears, sinuses, lungs, and other parts of the body, including Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) infection, a type of lung infection that often affects people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Clarithromycin is not approved to treat heart disease. Continue reading FDA issues warning about popular antibiotic
FLORENCE, Ala. – The George Lindsey UNA Film Festival will open this year’s festival with a full day of screenings and a Kick-Off Party, Thursday, March 1.
Daytime screenings Thursday will include Alabama films, with an entire block devoted to UNA film student projects. Thursday night will feature finalists from the Professional Documentary Category. The festival will host the annual Kick-Off Party at 6 p.m., at the Keystone Building Gallery, at 623 S. Seminary St., Florence. Continue reading George Lindsey UNA Film Festival Kicks Off March 1
MUSCLE SHOALS & PHIL CAMPBELL – Northwest-Shoals Community College (NW-SCC) will feature an I Have A Dream! concert on the Phil Campbell and Shoals campus in celebration of February as Black History Month.
Thursday, February 22, 2018, the NW-SCC Cultural Affairs Committee will hold an I Have A Dream! concert on the Phil Campbell campus at 12 p.m. in the Student Center. The concert will feature the NW-SCC Chorale and Jazz Band, Jayla Green and Elizabeth Harris. Continue reading NW-SCC to Celebrate Black History Month
 Dr. Will Boyd FLORENCE– Dr. Will Boyd, former Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Alabama’s 2017 special election, filed his declaration of candidacy for the office of Lieutenant Governor on February 9th. Continue reading Former U.S. Senate candidate is the Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Alabama
 Cybercrime Lab to Provide Digital Investigative and Forensic Support to Law Enforcement Investigations MONTGOMERY – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall was joined by U.S. Attorney
Louis Franklin and officials with the U.S. Secret Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations, the Alabama Fusion Center and the
Alabama Office of Prosecution Services in announcing the establishment of a Cybercrime Lab in
the Attorney General’s Office to assist all levels of law enforcement in the state with cyber-related
investigations. Continue reading AG’s OFFICE ANNOUNCES ESTABLISHMENT OF CYBERCRIME LAB
 Publisher Jeff Roland That old quote came to mind last week when 17 people were gunned down at a Florida high school. This young man who had been expelled from the school a year earlier mowed his former faculty and fellow students down. The images that came out of the massacre have the whole country in mourning. A week has almost passed and if you’re like me, still grieved for the families and students.
I can remember in the 80’s the pain and grief we felt as students at Sheffield High School when we lost two of our student body to accidents. My friends Todd Mussard, who died in a motorcycle crash, and Sharon Pace, who died in an automobile accident, were taken from us and the community as a whole. Let me tell you it hurt. So I cannot imagine the dread times 17 that must have befallen this school in Florida and that entire community. These 17 deaths were not accidents. It was cold-blooded murder. This week, the young gunman’s lawyers are trying to avoid the death penalty with a guilty plea. Will one more death help anything? Continue reading I have seen the face of the enemy it is us
Alabama’s leading Political Columnist Steve Flowers I have written about the legendary capitol reporters who use to cover Goat Hill. There was Bob Ingram of the Montgomery Advertiser, Al Fox of the Birmingham News, Hugh Sparrow of the Birmingham News, Rex Thomas of the Associated Press, Don Martin of UPI and Clarke Stallworth of the Birmingham Post Herald. A young cub reporter named Jim Bennett joined the Post Herald in 1961 and later had a distinguished career in Public Service. None of these legends is any longer with us.
Today’s capitol press corps also works hard, they stick with “just the facts” by conscientious research of their stories and leave out the speculations, “what-ifs”, opinion and political slants. Continue reading Steve Flowers: “Siegelman prosecuted for political reasons”
Christian Author and Pastor Ron Craig Do you see yourself in God’s Word? Does it seem that the Bible is in one world and you are in another? Do you have a desire to experience the good stuff you read in that Book, but question if you have the right qualifications to gain those benefits? You will remember that King David, in Psalms 103:3, said plainly: “Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits; Who forgives all of your iniquities, Who heals all of your diseases.” Was David better off than we New Testament Christians? Jesus said in Luke 7:28 that no one under the Old Covenant was greater than John the Baptizer, but that the very least disciple in God’s Kingdom (under the New Testament) is greater than he. Many obviously do not realize that we believers are under a BETTER COVENANT, that has BETTER PROMISES, because we have a BETTER MEDIATOR (Jesus Christ), and, therefore, have a BETTER INHERITANCE than those Old Covenant believers (Hebrews 1:4, 7:19, 22, 8:6, 9:23, 11:40). Continue reading Craig: We too are the seed of Abraham
RED BAY–A one vehicle crash at 10:15 p.m. Saturday, February 17, 2018, has claimed the life of a Hamilton woman. Continue reading Hamilton woman dies in crash on 247
BREWER, AMANDA GRACE
Booking #: 1802142249
Booking Date: 02-12-2018
Charges: PROMOTING PRISON CONTRABAND; VIOLATION SUSPENDED SENTENCE
MOORE, ANTHONY DEWAYNE
Booking #: 1802142252
Booking Date: 02-11-2018
Charges: UNAUTHORIZED USE OF VEHICLE
Continue reading COLBERT COUNTY ARRESTS 02/15/2018
 Nikolas Jacob Cruz PARKLAND, Fla.–Authorities have released the picture of the gunman in yesterday’s Valentine’s Day High School shooting. His name is Nikolas Jacob Cruz. He stands accused of killing 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Continue reading The face of the gunman in Valentine’s Day Massacre at Florida High School
Christian Author and Pastor Ron Craig Bible interpretation has fragmented the church! Modern Christians are concerned about many modern problems, but questionable or contradictory interpretations seem not to be important to most of them. Please be not offended, but believers seem to walk around in a stupor. I have observed through the years that most church members fear that they might be led into heresy if they associate too closely with members of some other denomination. They do not consider the possibility that they might have already been led astray, and are themselves heretical in some of their own beliefs. Have I been called to straighten everybody out? No! But, just as a believer, I have the responsibility to both believe God’s Word, and to minister what I have learned to all who will listen. Continue reading Craig: Bible interpretation has fragmented the church
 Jake Landers FLORENCE–Shoals Bluegrass extraordinaire Jake Landers has died at the age of 79. Landers was born in 1938 in Lawrence County, Alabama. Continue reading Jake Landers Bluegrass legend dies at 79
 Dr. Ken and Dena Kitts FLORENCE, Ala. – University of North Alabama President Ken Kitts and First Lady Dena Kitts will provide area third graders with copies of the book “Looking for Leo.”
A team of UNA representatives, including Dr. and Mrs. Kitts, will be heading to every public elementary school in Colbert and Lauderdale Counties Feb. 22. Continue reading UNA President and First Lady to Provide Books for Area Elementary Schools
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