Columnists
Progress more important than perfection
I want to follow up on Sketches No. 1565 concerning our trip to Germany. In that Sketches I shared a lot about the process of ...
Hank Sanders, Author at The Selma Times‑Journal - Page 3 of 17
Columnists
Building bridges is so powerful
Building bridges. That was the theme of our trip last week. Building bridges. That was the theme of our many meetings in Germany last week. ...
by Hank Sanders, Tuesday, June 6, 2017 10:11 pm
Columnists
Monuments impact past, present, future
I write this letter out of reluctant hope and constant pain. I am reluctantly hopeful the perspective set forth in this letter will be heard. ...
by Hank Sanders, Tuesday, May 30, 2017 9:27 pm
Columnists
Circumstances can make a difference
Ain’t no fun when the rabbit got the gun. Senator Bobby Singleton proclaims this phrase with gusto. He is making the point that the hunter ...
by Hank Sanders, Tuesday, May 23, 2017 10:13 pm
Columnists
Graduations and deaths are very much alike
Death and graduations. So very different but so very alike. My week was filled with graduations and death in one form or another. There were ...
by Hank Sanders, Tuesday, May 16, 2017 9:38 pm
Editorials
Appreciate mothers every day of the year
Mother’s Day is a coming. It’s always on Sunday. This year, it’s on May 14, 2017. It’s always a very special day. Let us all ...
by Hank Sanders, Tuesday, May 9, 2017 9:33 pm
Columnists
Looking at one day in the Alabama Legislature
What’s happening in the Alabama Legislature? I get this question all the time. My answer is usually laced with examples. So I could not ...
by Hank Sanders, Tuesday, May 2, 2017 9:37 pm
Columnists
Judicial overreach is no more
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. These words and or concept were initiated by Theodore Parker in the ...
by Hank Sanders, Tuesday, April 25, 2017 9:32 pm
Opinion
Transparency, accountability needed in politics
Sen. Sanders, I called to let you know that Gov. Robert Bentley will resign at 5 p.m. today and Lt. Gov. Kay Ivey will be ...
by Hank Sanders, Tuesday, April 18, 2017 10:17 pm
Columnists
Small cuts to public education add up
Death by a thousand cuts. Reputedly this was a form of death by torture practiced centuries ago in China. Instead of a quick death by ...
by Hank Sanders, Tuesday, April 11, 2017 10:54 pm
Columnists
We must get to the root of the problem
Bending the Arc of History: African Americans and the University of Alabama School of Law. This was the name of the conference at the ...
by Hank Sanders, Tuesday, April 4, 2017 9:55 pm
Columnists
Injustice in courts today make me have flashbacks
Did you ever have flashbacks to something from years ago? Did something in the present so jolt you that you flashbacked to decades ago? I ...
by Hank Sanders, Tuesday, March 28, 2017 8:01 pm
Columnists
Breaking down the latest Senate happenings
Can you move with me? Can you move with me through one legislative week in this 2017 Session? Do you want to? I hope so ...
by Hank Sanders, Wednesday, March 22, 2017 5:53 pm
Editorials
Alabama Memorial Preservation Act deceptive
The name sounds so innocent. In fact, it sounds good. But it is not what it is named but what it answers to. This Senate ...
by Hank Sanders, Tuesday, March 14, 2017 9:07 pm
Columnists
Wrapping up Jubilee weekend in Selma
Come. Come with me. Come with me as we share the Bridge Crossing Jubilee on the 52nd Anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the Selma-to-Montgomery March and ...