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...

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...

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...

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...
Inside the Statehouse

Inside the Statehouse

Big Jim Folsom Alabama’s Most Uninhibited Governor OPINION — This week begins a four part series of stories surrounding Alabama’s most legendary...

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Inside the Statehouse

If Alabama Loses Space Command, It's Because We Lost Shelby OPINION — Make no mistake about it, the decision as to where the heralded National Space...

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Inside the Statehouse

Annual Legislative Session Successful OPINION — The recently completed Regular Session of the Alabama legislature was a success. It began on a high...

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Inside the Statehouse

Political Potpourri  Opinion — Even though it is not an election year, the Alabama political pot is heating up and beginning to boil as we...

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Inside the Statehouse

Friends and Neighbors Politics OPINION — Last week I discussed young State Auditor Andrew Sorrell.  Recently, when I had him on my Montgomery...

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Inside the Statehouse

The Alabama Community College System OPINION — Sometimes overlooked and often unsung, Alabama’s community and technical colleges are on a roll. It...

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Inside the Statehouse

Dr. Wayne Flynt’s, 'Afternoons with Harper Lee' OPINION —  Renowned Alabama historian Dr. Wayne Flynt has chronicled and penned a marvelous...

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