State Rep. Randy Davis, just a day after U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner announced he was leaving his seat and months before the seat is actually vacated, announced he was entering the race for Congressional District 1. His quick entrance is likely intended to deter some other candidates considering the race. Gov. Robert Bentley will call a [...]
WASHINGTON — Rep. Jo Bonner, R-Mobile, is leaving his U.S. House seat to be vice chancellor for government relations and economic development at the University of Alabama System. Bonner is expected to announce the move at 4 p.m. in Mobile. The move is effective in August. The U.S. Constitution requires the governor to call a special [...]
Given a new set of incisors to enforce campaign finance law, the Secretary of State’s office Wednesday unveiled a new online reporting system aimed at making it easier to trace donations and publicly identify entities that drag their feet on filing. The new system will go online next Wednesday, a few days before the official [...]
If the three-month Legislative Session is a marathon run in business clothes, “sine die” (the twirling legal Latin phrase used for the last Legislative day) is a tie-yoking, necklace-clutching 100-yard dash to midnight, along a course where downhill sprints quickly turn into uphill slogs. Legislators and other participants in Monday’s lawmaking finale didn’t have to [...]
The Legislature managed to pass most — but not all — of the major bills in the hopper in the 2013 session. Below, a wrap-up of the status of bills as the Alabama Legislature consigned the 2013 Regular Session to history on Monday. Budgets: Gov. Robert Bentley quietly signed the Education Trust Fund and General [...]