Steve Flowers Articles

Inside the Statehouse

Gambling and Budgets Priority for Legislature By Steve Flowers The legislature is at the midway point of the 2021 Regular Legislative Session. They have used 15 days of their allotted 30-day legislative session. The Senate has been consumed with attempting to pass a...

Will Legislature Allow Alabamians to Vote on Gambling Revenue for State?

By Steve Flowers In 1998, Gov. Don Siegelman ran for Governor of Alabama on a platform of proposing that his administration would enact legislation creating a state lottery. It would be patterned after Georgia’s lottery, which gave the bulk of the proceeds to an...

Benefactor or Ideologue

INSIDE THE STATEHOUSE By Steve Flowers Over the years, I have discussed my observations and concepts of the two different roles or routes taken by a U.S. Senator or Congressman during their tenure in Washington. One clearly chooses one of two postures in their...

Big Issues Facing Alabama Legislature

By Steve Flowers The 2021 legislative session has begun. It will be a monumental and difficult session. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the logistics of just meeting will be a task. House members will be spread out all over the Statehouse to adhere to distancing...

Hubbard trial moves into 2016

A good many of the news stories that were the most noteworthy events of 2015 will continue into this new year of 2016 and may repeat as the major...

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