John Archibald

3 weeks ago | al.com | John Archibald

This is an opinion column. The Birmingham Water Works is gonna make you pay more. Always. Which is not a news flash. The water works wanting more is as sure a thing as death or tax breaks for people who already have too much money. What I should have said is…The water works is gonna make you pay even more. And it’s gonna care even less about what you have to say about it.

4 weeks ago | al.com | John Archibald

This is an opinion column. Note: I swore I’d never become one of those columnists who wrote about their pets. Not even one of those who turned dog stories into best sellers, into movies that made people cry and pay money. Or cry because they’d paid money. I did not intend to write this for publication. I wrote it because I always write obits for the ones I love. It is how I hope to honor them. It is how I work through grief. It is therapy.

4 weeks ago | al.com | John Archibald

This is an opinion column. Lowndes County is a place of haunting beauty, where you can see stars at night and endless loblolly pines by day. It’ll make your heart hurt, if you have one. But now Lowndes, according to the body that continues to call itself the U.S. Justice Department, is a poster child for all the sins of environmental justice and DEI. Because America doesn’t do irony anymore.

1 month ago | northwestgeorgianews.com | John Archibald

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1 month ago | al.com | John Archibald

This is an opinion column. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the way a single reasonable or courageous or simply unexpected voice can change minds. Or maybe nations. You may remember Alabama Sen. Howell Heflin for that Foghorn Leghorn drawl of his – as channeled by Chris Farley on SNL. That was a live one. Or maybe you remember him pulling womens’ undergarments out of his pocket in an ostensible attempt to blow his nose.