February 01, 2006
One of the major issues surfacing in the Governor’s race is the annual reappraisal of property taxes. Prior to Gov. Riley’s administration property…
January 25, 2006
The cloud hovering over the gubernatorial campaign of Don Siegelman is not the only one looming in this year’s primaries and election. There are huge…
January 18, 2006
When the gavel fell to start the 2006 Regular Session of the Legislature last week it began without one of its most stellar members. House Rules…
January 11, 2006
The State Senate has been nothing less than a boiling pot for the first three years of this quadrennium and this final year it will reach a zenith of…
December 28, 2005
As 2005 comes to an end we will review the top political events of the year in Alabama. At the beginning of the year it was speculated that four face…
December 21, 2005
While we have been strolling down memory lane for the past four months reliving past Governor’s races, the field has been formulating for next year’s…
December 14, 2005
I hope you enjoyed the fourteen-week series on past Governor’s races covering the 40-year span from 1962-2002. Many of you contacted me and shared…
December 07, 2005
Don Siegelman defeated Fob James in the 1998 Governor’s race by a landslide 18-point margin. Siegelman ran on an overt platform favoring a state…
November 30, 2005
Old Fob James had a quixotic political personality. When he was out of the Governor’s office he showed a tremendous yearning to get back. The proof…
November 23, 2005
When Guy Hunt won the Governor’s race over Bill Baxley in 1986 it was well publicized that he was a part-time Primitive Baptist preacher. He was also…