Roy S. Johnson
Columnist and Director at AL.com
Columnist; Director, Content Dev., Alabama Media Group/ @aldotcom; Pulitzer Prize Commentary finalist; Edward R. Murrow winner; 2023 NABJ HOF inductee, Dad
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5 days ago |
al.com | Roy S. Johnson
This is an opinion column. I’d long since left my hometown, but it still hit home. I was in an office high above Midtown Manhattan on this morning 30 years ago when Timothy McVeigh parked a rented Ryder truck across the street from the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City — a rented truck containing a 5,000-pound bomb. He lit several timed fuses and strode to his nearby getaway car.
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1 week ago |
al.com | Roy S. Johnson
In his youth, Dan Williams spent summers visiting family in Huntsville, where his uncle, Ray Greene, spent two stints as head football coach at Alabama A&M. Soon, Alabama will be Williams’ new home. Now 52, he will become the new president and CEO of the Greater Birmingham Convention & Visitors Bureau, the organization announced Thursday. Williams is the former chief sales officer at Experience Columbus in Ohio. He succeeds John Oros, who’s retiring after leading the organization for 10 years.
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1 week ago |
al.com | Roy S. Johnson
This is an opinion column. All Michael Mays wanted was to buy his father’s childhood home — the house in Fairfield, Alabama, where Willie Mays grew up. Buy the now dilapidated and neglected house that, until recently, was covered by overgrown foliage such that you could not see the once-proud middle-class home from the street. The son of the greatest baseball player to ever live wanted to buy the house so long forgotten that Fairfield’s city leaders did not realize who once lived there.
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2 weeks ago |
al.com | Roy S. Johnson
This is an opinion column. “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.” — excerpt from Deuteronomy 4:6Rep. Ernie Yarbrough touts that scripture on his website. In context, it’s not a decree of what is but what would be if the nation — Israel, in this case — observes God’s laws. This precedes the excerpt: “Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding to the nations, who will hear about all these decrees and say, Surely …”.. see above.
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2 weeks ago |
al.com | Roy S. Johnson
This is an opinion column. We’re not there yet. Two gun homicides and the shooting of two others in just two days this week were stark and sobering reminders. We’re not there yet. We’re not yet the “safest city in America,” as Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin’s vaunted crime commission aims us to be. Safe for all residents. Safe, at least, for all who want to be safe. We’re just not there. We’re closer, though. Closer than we’ve been in a long while.
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And tariffs are OFF, for now. https://t.co/XGu43lXUPY
Tell 'em 'bout it, Kyle @WarOnDumb
When Donald Trump tries to de-woke African-American history, Alabama history is at the center of the target. My latest. https://t.co/LsnYWzR0fv
An Alabama lawmaker touts scripture, but surely @RepYarbrough knows Jesus would cringe at his immigration bill, which would resurrect stop & frisk, putting the safety of the state's brown residents at risk. Again. https://t.co/jBPjeSVRlQ
