Alabama is a state with vast natural resources; home-grown, farm-raised, or fresh-caught food products. Which is why it seems to me like such a disconnect for a large portion of our…
Category: Session 2015
"Republicans Are Trading In That 'Jobs, Jobs, Jobs' Slogan For 'Taxes, Taxes, Taxes'"
After five years of passing millions of dollars in tax cuts for big businesses and billion-dollar, out-of-state corporations that, in some cases, pay zero state income taxes, Republicans in the state…
Governor Bentley Issues Statement on Passage of Fostering Hope Scholarship Act
MONTGOMERY–Governor Robert Bentley on Tuesday issued a statement on the final passage of Senate Bill 157, the Fostering Hope Scholarship Act. The Governor’s statement is below. “The Legislature has given final passage…
Governor Bentley Details Legislative Budget Cuts to Etowah County
GADSDEN—Governor Robert Bentley on Friday met with members of the Etowah County Chamber of Commerce to discuss the current budget crisis in the General Fund and the impact to Etowah County…
Northeast Alabama Senator Touts Committee’s Work Ethic
Senate Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development Committee Chairman Sen. Phil Williams updated Business Council of Alabama Governmental Affairs Committee members today on the wide range of economic and fiscal issues that…
With Republican Lottery Bill Coming This Week, Maybe Democrats Won The 2014 Elections After All?
Late Saturday night, Inside Alabama Politics reported that Republicans in the Alabama Legislature will introduce their own gambling bill this week, which will include a lottery and authorization for a possible…
The Obama Administration's Latest Overreach: The Clean Power Plan
Joint Op-ed by Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange and Katherine Robertson In the torrent of overreaching directives coming from Washington to the states, Alabamians may not be aware of the ongoing…
Lessons from Arkansas: Alabama Should Reject Medicaid Expansion
In 2013, Arkansas’s then-Governor Mike Beebe (D) pushed a non-traditional Medicaid expansion program that gives low-income individuals subsidies to use toward private coverage for things like a cosmetic dentist, rather than…