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.
Former U.S. Rep. Artur Davis, who represented Alabama in Congress as a Democrat, compared the worst abuses perpetrated on blacks during the Civil Rights Movement to the requirement that a voter offer photo ID, and said the ID “is not a billy club.”
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.
A Birmingham News report of a $30 million deficit sent Birmingham city councilors scurrying for political cover. If the Finance Department’s projections prove accurate, that deficit should be closer to $12 million, but either way, the council has been asleep at the switch.
New Woman All Women Healthcare Clinic — once bombed by Eric Robert Rudolph — may soon be under new management.
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.
Cody Jones, outgoing president of the University of Alabama College Democrats, says it’s true that he’s not voting for President Barack Obama in November, but it’s not because of a perceived lack of support for the Alabama Democratic Party.
