Craig Ford

By Craig Ford This past week was National Teacher Appreciation Week, and certainly our educators deserve appreciation now more than ever. Even in normal...

By Craig Ford In a few weeks, most students in Alabama are scheduled to return to school. With so few days left before students return, there are important...

By Craig Ford The Republican and Democratic primary runoff elections are still scheduled to take place on July 14, and many voters are understandably...

By Craig Ford Alabama should be building better schools, not better prisons. It’s as simple as that. And the truth is if we had done so from the beginning,...

By Craig Ford One of the biggest arguments against charter schools is that they have been hotbeds of waste, fraud and corruption. Nationally, charter...

By Craig Ford There is a lot that has been said lately - both online and in the media - about the future of the Gadsden Goodyear plant. The families...

By Craig Ford In the military, we have a saying that a platoon is only as strong as its weakest soldier. That concept applies to a lot of things in life,...

By Craig Ford The education budget passed by lawmakers in the final days of the 2019 legislative session is the largest in terms of dollars that the state...

By Craig Ford One of the positive things to come out of the 2019 Legislative Session is a piece of legislation that has finally brought pay equality to...

By Craig Ford I sometimes feel like a broken record, but here we are once again. Another year, another budget, and another failure to provide our retirees...