Top officials with the Republican Parties in 10 Southern states met in Birmingham this week to discuss maintaining control of the U.S. House in 2014 and flipping the U.S. Senate by targeting races including three Southern Democrats. Bill Armistead, chairman of the Alabama Republican Party, said the agenda included trying to unseat Democratic U.S. senators [...]
Eight high-poverty Montgomery County schools will be considered failing institutions under the Alabama Accountability Act, meaning families could move their children out of those schools and receive tax credits for private schools — if those institutions will accept them. The list of schools, released Tuesday morning, includes six Montgomery County middle schools, an elementary school [...]
Gov. Robert Bentley will end a nearly five-year freeze on state employee merit raises next January, saying in a memo to department heads dated Monday that many state employees “have succeeded in performing their jobs above and beyond the call of duty.” However, the money for any increases in state employee pay raises will have [...]
The man with the most interesting name in Alabama politics, even dedicating space to it on his website, plans to be back on the ballot in 2014. “We are doing great things here. We are proud of the accomplishments we have made,” said Treasurer Young Boozer. “We have saved the state millions of dollars. We [...]
Dr. Don Williamson Monday likened the division of the state into Medicaid regions to redrawing the map of Europe following World War I: Complete satisfaction is unlikely, disturbances to prior arrangements a given. “There’s no way you can draw maps and lines on a map that do not impact somebody’s referral patterns,” Williamson, the overseer [...]