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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Inside the State House

Inside the State House

Nov 22, 2023

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

Nov 16, 2023

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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University philanthropists

Oct 25, 2023

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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