Steve Flowers Articles

Inside the State House | May 9, 2024

Senator/Coach Tuberville is quietly effective OPINION — As the end of 2023 was approaching, the U.S. Senate had ignored the custom to adjourn around Thanksgiving for a month-long Christmas break. Instead, they were working right up to Christmas. Alabama’s senior...

You don’t want to offer the president’s SOTU rebuttal

OPINION — Without question, you do not want to be the political sacrificial lamb selected by your party hierarchy to give the rebuttal address in opposition to the Presidential State of the Union address. It does not matter if it is a Democratic stalwart responding to...

Nathaniel Ledbetter is a verypowerful Speaker of the House

BY STEVE FLOWERS OPINION — As the 2024 Regular Legislative Session began about three months ago, I had a column entitled “2024 Legislative Session Begins Next Week.”In that column I highlighted the leadership of the Alabama House and Senate. I said there were three...

State Leaders all aboard on “Working for Alabama” Plan

BY STEVE FLOWERS OPINION — Anyone who follows the Legislative Session each year in Montgomery, knows that it is never short of controversy.The House has its priorities, the Senate has its own, and governors have theirs. And it is fair to say that those priorities are...
Inside the Statehouse

Inside the Statehouse

Status of 2022 U.S. Senate Race By Steve Flowers When Senator Richard Shelby announced he would not run for reelection to a sixth six-year term in...

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Inside the Statehouse

Inside the Statehouse

How Will Alabama Fare in Washington after Richard Shelby By Steve Flowers Some of you have inquired how Alabama will fare in Washington after...

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Inside the Statehouse

Some Legislative Issues By Steve Flowers The 2020 legislative regular session is wrapping up. After this week’s two-days of meeting days, only one...

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Inside the Statehouse

Who Are the Nine People Who Sit on Our State Supreme Court? By Steve Flowers This week allow me to share with you a sketch of the men and women who...

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Inside the Statehouse

State Supreme Court often forgotten in Alabama By Steve Flowers Our 1901 Alabama Constitution replicates the United States Constitution in designing...

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Inside the Statehouse

Reapportionment and Gerrymandering By Steve Flowers Hopefully, you participated in the census last year.  It is vitally important for each...

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Inside the Statehouse

Inside the Statehouse

By Steve Flowers Wallace: Political Genius and Legislative Master As the Regular Legislative Session evolves, I recall years past when George...

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Inside the Statehouse

IN THE STATEHOUSE

2022 Will be a big year for Alabama politics By Steve Flowers All signs point to a Titanic political year in 2022. In fact, as I look back over the...

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