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Stay safe but don’t delay cancer treatment or screenings, UAB doctors warn

Healthcare workers are seeing fewer people getting routine cancer screenings for fear of coming into contact with the novel coronavirus. With no end to the pandemic in sight, doctors are urging people to get screened and move forward with treatment if they have a diagnosis. Not delaying treatment is of paramount importance, said Barry Sleckman, … Continued

Micah Danney

July 10, 2020

Opinion

Coronavirus will stretch Alabama hospitals and healthcare facilities to the breaking point

With cases of the coronavirus now being reported in Alabama, healthcare – especially in rural parts of our state – has become more important than ever. Several years ago, our state had the opportunity to expand Medicaid at almost no new cost to Alabama taxpayers. The federal government would have funded over 90 percent of … Continued

Craig Ford

March 17, 2020

Opinion

We need to stop drinking the Florida Kool-Aid

“He could sell snow cones to Eskimos.” Nothing could be more true if some of the Eskimos are a handful of Alabama legislators and “he” is Jeb Bush. They gobble up any and everything Bush or his Foundation for Excellence in Education foundation peddles–no questions asked. However, there are people in Florida who are not … Continued

Larry Lee

May 22, 2019

Opinion

Alabama should wait and watch before considering Medicaid expansion

If only Alabama’s leaders had a magical Medicaid “Choose Your Own Adventure” book, so they could flip ahead and see the different outcomes we could expect by expanding the government insurance program that was originally designed for the poor and disabled. Would it end in a stronger economy, more jobs and a vibrant system of … Continued

J. Pepper Bryars

April 30, 2019

Opinion

“Once in a lifetime” is happening far too often in our lives

Earlier this week, I listened to Dr. James B. McClintock speak to students in the University Honors Program at UAB. McClintock, the renowned Endowed University Professor of Polar and Marine Biology at the university, once again showed, with ample evidence, what climate change is doing to polar ice in both the Arctic (Northern Hemisphere) and … Continued

Joey Kennedy

September 13, 2018

The rise of the oppressed straight white male is no laughing matter

According to Randy Blazak, former professor of sociology at Portland State University and an expert on hate crimes, a particular segment of white men feel under siege. “All these men are motivated by the desire to defend the myth of a country ‘created by and for’ white men like them, which they believe is fading … Continued

Bill Britt

September 4, 2018

Sewell says Congress must hear from Manafort, Gates and Papadopoalos

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Monday, it was announced that former Trump 2016 Campaign Manager Paul Manafort and his partner, Rick Gates, had both been indicted by charges brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Mueller also announced that former Trump Campaign Foreign Policy Adviser George Papadopoulos had accepted a guilty plea. U.S. Rep. Terri … Continued

Brandon Moseley

November 2, 2017