Alabama’s concentration of residents who have served in uniform exceeds most other states, but the Heart of Dixie’s veteran population is shrinking faster than the national average, according to the latest estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.The Census Bureau estimates that Alabama had 331,076 veterans in 2016. That is 8.8 percent of the total […]

  Quin Hillyer, my longtime friend and on-again, off-again colleague, wrote last week in this space that “Alabama’s governing systems are a collective mess.” The same can be said for our culture — both in the United States generally and Alabama, specifically. Alabamians have repeated the old joke, “Thank God for Mississippi,” so many times […]