by Steve Flowers One of my most cherished lifetime memories is the almost two decades I served in the Alabama House of Representatives. It was...
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A few Friday nights ago, a large throng of people gathered at The Club in Birmingham despite a torrential thunderstorm. The event was called Jubilee...
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While observing the legislature the other day, I fondly remembered a very eventful day as a youth. As a teenager, I grew up working at the Capitol...
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Sometimes the best thing that the legislature can do in a session is to pass very little legislation. That can be said of this year’s regular...
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A few weeks ago former Alabama Chief Justice Perry O. Hooper Sr. died at his home in Montgomery at age 91. He was the epitome of the southern...
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Last week we talked about how difficult it is to win passage of a legislative act. It does not matter if the proposed legislation is for apple pie...
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For the past five or six years the legislature has pretty much cut state government to the bone. One of the areas that legislators have taken an ax...
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At this time of year Washington, D.C. is a beautiful place to visit. The city is aglow with the blooming of the cherry blossom trees. The cherry...
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As the budget hearings began for the 2016 Legislative Session in January the largest Powerball lottery sweepstakes in American history was playing...
