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May 20 2013 It has been a telling year in the Alabama legislature. The taxpayers have learned a lot about their representatives in Montgomery from what has taken place over the past few months. Of course, the most notable event was the Republican supermajority’s decision to deceive the people of Alabama (and even their own education advisors) by [...] May 13 2013 For the past three years, the Alabama legislature under the leadership of the Republican Supermajority has waged a war on public education in Alabama. It started with cutting educators’ take-home pay. Next, the Republicans “dropped the DROP program” (though they waited until they could get their payout from it first). This year, it started with [...] May 6 2013 I learned a lot of values from my dad. He served in the legislature 26 years, and one of the most important values he practiced as a legislator and that he passed on to me is that our government should operate honestly and out in the open so that the taxpayers can see what they [...] Apr 29 2013 This week, the Alabama House of Representatives once again has to vote on legislation that is meant to “fix” a bill that was rushed through the process and not thought-out before it became law. If there has been a theme for the past three years since the Republican Supermajority took control of the state legislature, [...] Apr 22 2013 It’s that time of year when the state legislature writes the budgets that will fund our schools and government services. Last week, the Alabama House of Representatives passed the Education Trust Fund, which funds all things related to public education. This week, the House will turn its attention to the state’s General Fund budget, [...] Apr 16 2013 It has been a rough year for public education in Alabama. In fact, for the past three years, the Republicans in the Alabama legislature have been waging a war on public education. And because of the education budget that passed the state House of Representatives last week, next year isn’t looking much better. Particularly, there [...] Apr 8 2013 When Gov. Bentley signed the Alabama Accountability Act into law, he acknowledged that there were, in his words, “Some concerns [that] have been raised regarding the impact of this legislation.” The governor also said he believed those concerns could be fixed through more rules and regulation. At the same time, Republicans in the state [...] Apr 1 2013 They Bible says in Matthew 6:21, “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” I believe in the truth of that scripture, and over the next couple of months we will see where our state’s leadership is putting their hearts. As the legislature returns for the second half of the legislative session, [...] Mar 25 2013 We’ve all heard the old saying, “Be careful what you wish for because you just might get it.” It seems that Republicans in the Alabama legislature are learning the meaning of this saying the hard way after they failed to show up for work this past Tuesday and ended up burning a legislative day and [...] Mar 18 2013 It is amazing to read what some legislators have written in the weeks since the state legislature passed the so-called Alabama Accountability Act. The Republicans in the Alabama legislature who concocted this bill and the deceitful (not to mention illegal) tactics to pass it, are now trying to tell us that they followed the rules [...] |
   
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