Columnists
Act aimed at restoring Gulf Coast
More than a year after the tragic and deadly Deepwater Horizon explosion, thankfully, most of the visible oil has been removed from our beaches and ...
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Columnists
Economic growth smothered
The Obama administration has made no secret of its efforts to affect change in America. From higher taxes on workers and business, to greater government ...
by Jo Bonner, Wednesday, October 5, 2011 3:00 am
Columnists
Tax increase won’t help create jobs
Americans are fed up, and it’s no wonder. Unemployment hovers at 9.1 percent nationally and investors feel like they’re riding a roller coaster as the ...
by Jo Bonner, Wednesday, September 28, 2011 3:00 pm
Opinion
Ideas to end the economy crisis
While this summer marks the second year since the supposed end of the economic recession, it is an anniversary that no one is celebrating. Recent ...
by Jo Bonner, Wednesday, August 17, 2011 8:44 am
Columnists
What ‘recovery summer’?
Happy one-year anniversary of what President Obama and Vice President Biden referred to as the “recovery summer.” For most Americans, the impact of the “great ...
by Jo Bonner, Tuesday, June 21, 2011 5:00 pm
Columnists
Biden visits lower Alabama
A month after President Barack Obama toured the U.S. Coast Guard Gulf oil spill incident response staging area in Theodore, Alabama, Vice President Joe Biden ...
by Jo Bonner, Wednesday, July 28, 2010 9:32 am
Columnists
President tours Gulf Coast
Last week President Barack Obama made his first visit to coastal Alabama to assess the physical and economic damage caused by the Gulf oil spill. ...
by Jo Bonner, Wednesday, June 23, 2010 4:00 am
Columnists
Focus is on shutting off well
For more than a month, I have devoted space in this column to the crisis in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil leak continues to ...
by Jo Bonner, Wednesday, June 2, 2010 12:45 am
Columnists
Oil spill is disaster in slow motion
Thursday will mark 30 days since the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform and the tragic deaths of 11 personnel aboard. It also ...
by Jo Bonner, Wednesday, May 19, 2010 4:00 am
Columnists
Watching oil spill unfold
Like most of you, I have been watching developments very closely with the British Petroleum oil spill and want to see that no option is ...