The Alabama State Capitol
The Alabama Education Association has filed a lawsuit protesting Alabama Board of Education policies banning two-year college employees from serving in the state Legislature.
The policies were a reaction to a slate of scandals involving two-year colleges across the state in which two-year colleges were paying legislators huge consulting fees for little if [...]
The Tuscaloosa News is reporting that, at long last, Alabama Gov. Bob Riley has reimbursed the state for his use of an ADEM plane to go to a fund-raiser more than four months ago. Neverthelss, it is doubtful that the controversy will end here, as many are now questioning the wisdom of a strapped-for-cash Environmental [...]
To this point, and despite having some of the most ruthless foreclosure laws in America, Alabama has managed to dodge the mortgage foreclosure nightmares that have plagued the rest of the country.
Some might say it’s the result of sheer irrelevancy. Unlike many other states, Alabama has not seen its housing prices skyrocket since the late [...]
State Sen. Vivian Davis Figures announced today that she will challenge Sen. Jeff Sessions for his seat in the US Senate.
In some recent polls, Sen. Hillary Clinton is shown to be making some impressive gains over three of the Republican frontrunners in Alabama.
For anyone who’s interested in sitting down with the Right’s favorite Mormon, it’ll only run you a cool grand; unless of course you want your picture taken. Photos with Romney and his wives [He only has one. -Ed.] [What's the point of being a Mormon, then? -MD] are running $2,300. They’re using expensive film, I [...]
Representing the poorest district in one of the poorest states does not normally bode well for a candidate’s fundraising prospects. Of course, don’t tell that to Rep. Artur Davis, who has increased his war chest by 72 percent in the last three months.
Rep. Davis was able to achieve this impressive increase after landing a seat [...]
Brian Sanford, a former inspector for the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, expressed doubts about the usefulness of the department’s aerial surveillance program when it was started in 2005, comparing Director Trey Glenn to “Homer Simpson.” The program has come under fire recently after Governor Bob Riley took a political trip using the program’s plane.
In [...]
While I understand why Democrats in Alabama would be upset about the Governor using a plane that was bought for use by the state environmental agency to take a political trip, I don’t see why it has to spill over into questioning the need for the plane period.
In this post, a commenter at Left in [...]
For anyone who missed it, last week the United Auto Workers made its first move in a bid to unionize the Honda plant in Lincoln, Alabama. They said about 300 workers showed up to the initial pitch in a motel in Lincoln.
Admittedly, the UAW faces a similar uphill battle in this effort to the one [...]
