| Mar 11, 2020 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyBirmingham, Alabama is a landmark city for the American civil rights movement. Even today, it’s ground zero for a vital fight over voting rights. I visited Jefferson County Jail in Birmingham recently to deliver inmates a simple message: you are free to vote, even if...
| Aug 13, 2019 | HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyLast week, I dropped my kids off for their first day of school in our small Alabama town of not even 7,000 people. The kids were excited, but I was a nervous wreck. My kids — ages 8 and 11 — are my heart and joy. Would they have everything they need? Like every dad,...
| May 15, 2019 | Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyThis op-ed was originally published on April 24. It was updated on May 15 to include more recent developments. We’re living in the most perilous time for abortion rights and reproductive freedom since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973. While some erosion of...
| Mar 12, 2019 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP FeaturedRecently, I was driving home up highway 169 in Lee County, Alabama. Ten minutes after we passed a roadside business, it was destroyed by 170 mile-per-hour winds. Trees turned into missiles, and 23 lives were lost. This monster storm tracked through Beauregard and...
| Jul 30, 2018 | Rights / DemocracyThis summer, people gathered in cities throughout the country to protest our government’s separation and incarceration of immigrant families. In Alabama, hundreds of local residents came together in Birmingham, Montgomery, and Dothan. It was only the Huntsville rally...
