The Birmingham Business Alliance has endorsed a bill in the Alabama Legislature that would give the county commission the authority to raise up to $60 million per year with a reinstated occupational tax.
Last week, the county’s hopes for righting its finances were dead, but a show of leadership by Sen. Jabbo Waggoner has revived a bill thought hopeless a week ago.
Alabama’s state parks have seen their state revenue raided in recent years, but a bill passed by the Alabama House and now before the state Senate would reduce their state allocation to chicken bones and corncobs.
Former Birmingham city councilor and Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Johnson last made the news in December when the New Zealand press revealed that Johnson donated sperm to Kiwi lesbian couples hoping to conceive. Now he’s left his wife and headed back to New Zealand to care for his babies.
Six people protesting against Alabama’s immigration law were handcuffed and removed Thursday morning for blocking the doors of the Alabama Senate chambers. No charges have been filed against the protestors.
Roy Moore, the Republican nominee for chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, received a full-throated endorsement from his political party Wednesday, and spoke about the importance of funding the judicial branch.
Confusion of professional exemptions have spooked the sponsors of a statewide bill to give Jefferson County more taxing authority, and now the long-shot attempt to right the county’s general fund is dead.
If passed by the Alabama Senate and signed by the governor, the bill, House Bill 354, would allow homebrewers ages 21 and up to brew or make up to 15 gallons of beer or wine in a quarter.
Jezebel.com has recently released their ‘Ten Scariest Places to Have Ladyparts in America,’ a list of the places you don’t want to be if your body is doing things that involve a vagina. And Alabama wasn’t on it.
As an old friend once told me, government exists to do shitty things to people. But what’s worse is when it does nothing at all.
