If it wasn’t for guns, around 50,000 more of our fellow Americans would be alive this year. That is 50,000 preventable deaths in the U.S. per …
Jeff Martin
Publisher
The Alabama Democratic Party (ADP) hasn’t played a significant role in state politics for most of the last decade, but it wasn’t until this pa…
“No additional information is available;” typically the last sentence in most reports from the media after a shooting occurs. The truth is, th…
On the evening of November 4th 1980, I sat in front of the family typewriter and pecked out a letter to President Jimmy Carter as election ret…
In March, the Martin family celebrated 25 years of publishing since purchasing The Montgomery Independent in 1997. This week The Independent t…
I attended the funeral of a close friend’s father this week. Army Ranger Gabriel Kinney would have turned 102 in February. Gabe is survived by…
My little girl isn’t so little anymore. 'Little' might not be the appropriate adjective, Olivia has been the tallest member of the family for …
Tuesday is Election Day. On the ballot will be a U.S. Senate race, most statewide offices, all 140 legislative seats - including a tight one i…
Montgomery Academy JV Volleyball team celebrate CCC championship.