Get the facts right before speaking

My mother called me Sunday about a newspaper ad in the Tuscaloosa News from the Poarch Band of Creek Indians setting the 'record straight' about a group that has started a campaign against Poarch's monopoly on gaming in the state and not paying taxes.

I later read the ad in the Mobile Press-Register. Maybe I've had my head in the sand, but I didn't know there was a 'group' now going after Poarch.

Before I had a chance to read Steve Flowers' weekly column which appears at the bottom of this page every week I had another publisher call me and ask if I had read it and wondered if I would print it...