Okay, I get it. I already get too many emails in the several email accounts I have. But when I get an email that helps me speed through an activity and helps plan the week, well, thatās different. After several weeks of design, trial, and redesign, I have one more you might find helpful. It arrives Monday morning: a list of events for the week (from the Opelika Daily News) and a list of each… Read More
Category: Jerry Katz Ramblings
Sunday Funnies
He wasnāt a businessman. He was a grifter.
I rented an office in the Round House the month it opened. Kyle Sandler is dead, and ābusinessmanā is the wrong word for what he did to this town. Read More
The Humanitarian Need Is Real
Why Ukraine? Because a young woman I have worked with for four years answered our offer of help by pointing at her neighbors instead of herself. Read More
Keep Dorie Miller’s Name on That Carrier
The Navy is reportedly weighing whether to strip Doris Miller's name from CVN-81 and name the carrier for a sitting president. A former sailor's answer: no. Read More
Katz Ramblings – Bringing It ALL Back!
As some of you know, I’ve been spending evenings the past few weeks bringing the old Opelika Daily News blog — which I’ve now done for two decades — back to life. Local events and news of coming and past events are aggregated from several area news sources. The stories always link back to the original source for context and, in many cases, more information. My blog has gone under several URLs over the years… Read More
A Familiar Look Returns to the Opelika Daily News
The 2009 design by Brett Darnell, an Auburn student at the time, was lost through years of WordPress redesigns. This week, with Viktor AI, it came back. Read More
The Great Upheaval – Where Did Cajuns Come From?
It all began in Canada! The Day of Commemoration of the Great Upheaval is observed in Canada on July 28 each year. It commemorates the Great Upheaval (French: Le Grand DĆ©rangement ), the forced deportation of thousands of Acadian settlers by British authorities between 1755 and 1763 . Acadians were French-speaking people who had settled in what are now Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. Beginning on July 28, 1755 , British authorities… Read More
