Category: Editorial

Congressman Jerry Carl Parents have the right to make decisions for their children, especially when it comes to their education. Unfortunately, countless school districts have been ignoring input from parents while special interest groups try to influence the education of our children and negatively label involved parents.Thankfully, the House is expected to take action this week on a bill introduced by my friend and colleague from Louisiana, Rep. Julia Letlow.…

Congressman Jerry Carl In each Congress, the majority party’s highest priority legislation is labeled as House Resolution 1 (H.R. 1), declaring it the most important issue facing America. Last Congress, Democrats controlled the House, and their H.R. 1 was called For the People Act. It really should have been named For the Politicians Act because it was an attempt to radically transform our elections by taking election decisions away from…

Congressman Jerry Carl Last week, House Republicans took two very important steps to protect your pocketbook and pump the brakes on President Biden’s out-of-control spending habits.The first thing we did was vote to overturn a Biden Department of Labor rule that hurts retirees. On January 1, 2022, the Department of Labor published a final rule allowing retirement investment plan managers to consider environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors when making…

Congressman Jerry Carl Over the weekend, the mainstream media began reporting on what we’ve all known for a while: COVID-19 likely originated in a lab in China. For over two years, so many of us have been saying the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) actively and purposely deceived the world about the origins of COVID since day one.To make matters even worse, our own government officials lied to us about the…

By BONNIE BARTEL LATINO In last week’s Atmore News I wrote about US Army SP5 Rayford Gohagin, who was my classmate at Escambia County High School and who was killed in Vietnam on May 13, 1969. I mentioned two other young men, who were only a year or two younger than the students in Rayford’s and my class and who also died in Vietnam. They were Larry Gonzales and Allen…