The Sand Mountain Reporter - Boaz mayor to heed threats – faces minor ethics charge
Times-Journal - Budgets top concern of Legislators – including Lowell Barron
Daily Mountain Eagle – Police officer hiring sparks controversy in Carbon Hill
Northwest Alabamian – Sen Zeb Little’s bill to remove occupational tax [...]
Charter Schools. All the gubernatorial candidates but one support them. Republican legislators are busily writing legislation that would allow Alabama to get federal dollars (from a Democratic administration) for them. State Superintendent Joe Morton says Alabama can't afford to ignore this opportunity.
Morton said the dollars available through the federal [...]
Thanks to anonymous for the steer to Nonprofits formed by three legislators go unaudited in today’s Birmingham News. In brief, State Sen. Roger Bedford, Reps. Mike Millican, D-Hamilton, and William Thigpen, D-Fayette, helped pass legislation diverting tax funds from the State Coal Severance Tax (which the act also sets [...]
The Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Fact book (pdf). This is a reference provided all legislators to show them where all the money goes. Makes interesting reading. For instance, one state agency recieves about $600K to investigate consumer complaints and secured about $400k in refunds for Alabama consumers and resolved [...]
Andalusia Star-News – Covington County Schools doesn’t want penny tax
Troy Messenger - Brundidge Councilman found guilty of assault
The Southeast Sun – Enterprise City Schools face grim future
Hartselle Enquirer – Hartselle raises sales tax to support new school
St. Clair News-Aegis – Legislators look for equality in [...]
The US House of Representatives passed historic healthcare reform legislation last night. There was vigorous debate on both sides (amazing, given some contended it was impossible for anyone to have read it in the time allotted, how could 435 legislators each have an opinion) and in the end a vote to [...]
Andalusia Star News - Seth Hammett: Legislators face rough session
The Franklin County News - Franklin County Schools seek one cent tax increase
The Sand Mountain Reporter - Bishop defends ESL program and related editorial
BaldwinCountyNow - Cell phone tower turmoil continues in Spanish Fort
Troy Messenger - [...]
