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| January 11, 2007 |
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| Based on the disappointing failure of a coalition of conservative senators to gain control of the Alabama State Senate, it appears that the same politicians that have controlled the... |
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| March 15, 2007 |
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| On March 8, Alabama’s state legislators voted themselves a massive pay raise of $18, 840 per year, a 62 percent increase, which raises their pay from $30,410 per year... |
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| March 22, 2007 |
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| On March 20th, Governor Bob Riley kept a promise he made to the people of Alabama when he vetoed the whopping 62 percent pay raise the members of the Alabama... |
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| February 7, 2008 |
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| Dark clouds hang over the state of Alabama as the Legislature goes into the 2008 session. Unfortunately for this drought-stricken state, these are not rain clouds; they are clouds of allegations of corruption, conflicts-of-interest and mismanagement... |
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| February 14, 2008 |
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| In 2006, according to a report by the Center for Public Integrity, there were some 40,000 individual lobbyists targeting state legislators across the nation... |
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| January 9, 2009 |
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| As individuals, we use New Year's Resolutions as a launching pad to change or improve our personal lives. What if government were to do the same thing? |
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| May 12, 2009 |
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| It is past time for a showdown in Montgomery on ethics reform. Prior to the 2006 election, written promises to pass ethics reform legislation were made to Alabama voters but since that time, three regular legislative sessions have come and gone . . . |
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| April 30, 2010 |
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| The 2010 regular session of the Alabama Legislature ended as it began: with three big issues looming over everything else. The bills were often accompanied by boisterous and contentious political posturing... |
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| May 7, 2010 |
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| Most of the media coverage of the 2010 Alabama legislative session has been an evaluation of what was, or was not, accomplished in the last session. To get an accurate picture, Alabama citizens should evaluate ... |
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