Steve Flowers Articles

Primary is next week

OPINION — This coming Tuesday, March 5, is Primary Election Day in Alabama. Your vote next week is probably as important this Tuesday as it will be in the November general election because winning the Republican nomination for a statewide position in Alabama is...

Apparently a qualification to run is to not live in 2nd District

BY STEVE FLOWERS OPINION— “Friends and Neighbors” politics and “all politics is local” has gone by the wayside. Instead, we are a state and nation divided along partisan and racial lines. In Alabama, almost all white voters are Republican and almost all black voters...

State Senate Leaders

BY STEVE FLOWERS OPINION Last week we discussed the Alabama House of Representatives and highlighted the leaders in the House.This week we will talk about the prominent members of the very powerful Alabama State Senate.To begin with, the state senate is made up of 35...

Legislative session begins: Here are players to watch

BY STEVE FLOWERS OPINION— The 2024 Legislative Session began this week. It can last three and a half months from Feb. 6 to May 20.The Alabama Legislature is a very conservative body. It has super Republican majorities in both the Senate and the House. The Senate is...
Inside the Statehouse

Inside the Statehouse

Lister Hill, a great Alabama senator OPINION— We had a very dist-inguished congressional delegation from Alabama during the 30-year span of...

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Inside the Statehouse

Inside the State House

60th anniversary of JFK assassination BY STEVE FLOWERS OPINION— The assassination of President John F. Kennedy happened 60 years ago this week. It...

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Inside the Statehouse

Inside the Statehouse

Negative Ads Work BY STEVE FLOWERS OPINION— Over the years, many of you have lamented to me and said, “I am so tired of seeing all negative ads with...

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Inside the Statehouse

University philanthropists

BY STEVE FLOWERS OPINION — In the past two to three years we have had some very generous benefactors make some very magnanimous contributions to...

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