In an interview with the Daily Caller, House Speaker Mike Hubbard credits lessons learned from Rahm Emanuel for helping the GOP take control of the Alabama legislature in 2010. Hubbard also says he’d like to run for governor one day.
Civil rights leaders opposed to Alabama’s anti-immigrant law plan to place targeted advertisements discouraging potential convention planners and beach vacationers from coming to Alabama. In addition, the opponents of the law plan to hold up banners and signs outside 70 Hyundai dealerships informing customers about the law.
As media retreat from the ground they once covered, more stories will go unreported. Advance might be moving its focus to digital, but like the rest of the industry, it does not yet know how to get ad dollars from the Internet.
In a blog post on his web site, Davis wrote Tuesday that if he were to run for office again, he’d run as a Republican. And, if he runs, he might not necessarily run for Congress.
Birmingham patrolman Curtis Thornton has been charged with arson for fires set in Warrior and is the lead suspect in a spate of arsons in Ensley. All of the houses were abandoned, and Birmingham Mayor William Bell says the city will begin demolishing them on Tuesday.
A Birmingham patrolman, Curtis Thornton, has been charged with arson related to a string of fires in Warrior and is the lead suspect in 14 arson cases in the city of Birmingham.
A jury in a federal civil trial found that Victoryland owner Milton McGregor worked with Macon County Sheriff David Warren to maintain a monopoly on casinos in the county, and awarded the plaintiffs $64 million in compensatory and punitive damages, according to a report from WSFA in Montgomery.
The Birmingham News is going to print only three editions a week, and the city of Birmingham will be left without a daily newspaper. The paper will print on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sunday, according to Twitter postings by a Birmingham News reporters.
Municipal bond analysts continue to reevaluate their market after the Alabama Legislature refused to pass a rescue bill to back Jefferson County’s general obligation debt.
Artur Davis bet it all in his race for governor and lost, leaving him in Alabama exile. But with talk of Davis running for Congress in Virginia, has he found a new home? Or has he outsmarted himself again?
