Steve Flowers Articles

Inside the Statehouse Census Results — Revealing

By Steve Flowers Well folks, the final census figures are in from last year’s 2020 nose count. The census is taken every 10 years to determine the lines and boundaries of congressional and legislative districts. However, the census reveals a lot more information about...

Inside the Statehouse

20th Anniversary of 9/11 Terrorist Attacks By Steve Flowers This week marks the 20th Anniversary of the infamous 9/11 terrorist attacks on our nation. It was a day in your life where you remember where you were and what you were doing when you first heard of the...

Inside the Statehouse Trump Comes to Alabama

By Steve Flowers Former President Donald Trump paid a visit to the Heart of Dixie last week. Obviously, this is Trump country. Alabama was one of Trump’s best states in the 2020 Election. He got an amazing 65% of the vote in our state. If the turnout for his Aug. 21...

Inside the Statehouse More Summer Political Happenings

By Steve Flowers Allow me to again open my political notebook for more summer political happenings in the Heart of Dixie. As Labor Day approaches it looks as though the state constitutional officeholders, all Republicans, are going to escape serious or even any...
Inside the Statehouse

Inside the Statehouse

By Steve Flowers Well our good ole Dr. Governor, Robert Bentley, is headed to the same fate as Guy Hunt and Don Siegelman.  Folks, we are building a...

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Inside the Statehouse

Inside the Statehouse

Lots of folks are still mad about our lame duck governor Robert Bentley naming Attorney General Luther Strange to Jeff Sessions Senate seat. If the...

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Inside the Statehouse

We are on the cusp of one of the best political years in modern political history in the Heart of Dixie. Prior to the 1970’s our constitution...

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Inside the Statehouse

The premier issue of this year’s legislative session will be whether to borrow a massive amount of money to build new prisons in the state. This...

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Inside the Statehouse

We have unbelievable natural resources in Alabama starting with the Tennessee Valley and transcending to the beautiful white sands at Gulf Shores....

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Inside the Statehouse

Inside the Statehouse

As I have suggested to you, we are looking at one momentous 2018 election year, and it has begun.  Get this folks, we have an open governor’s race. ...

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Inside the Statehouse

Inside the Statehouse

This third year of the quadrennium Regular Session of the legislature has recently gotten a lot more complex. These next four months will be trying...

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Inside the Statehouse

Inside the Statehouse

As the third regular session of this quadrennium begins, the paramount focus once again will be on the budgets. Even more specifically, it will be...

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Inside the Statehouse

During the past couple of months everywhere I go people continually ask me why in the world the legislature could not simply put the issue of...

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