Steve Flowers Articles

Inside the Statehouse

Reapportionment and Gerrymandering By Steve Flowers Hopefully, you participated in the census last year.  It is vitally important for each state that every person is counted. One of the first premises set out by our nation’s founding fathers is that there be a...

Inside the Statehouse

By Steve Flowers Wallace: Political Genius and Legislative Master As the Regular Legislative Session evolves, I recall years past when George Wallace was governor. George Wallace was definitely a political genius and a master of the legislative process.  You...

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 last six decades of my observations of Alabama politics, next year may be the most momentous. Most states elect their...

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...

Why Trump appeals to southerners

The presidential primary parade has been colorful and fun to watch this year. It has been even more amusing because of the pervasive presence of one...

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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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