November 10, 2011
The 2012 presidential contest has begun and is in full swing. President Barack Obama is running hard and raising tons of money. The GOP field is…
November 03, 2011
The 2012 elections are one year away. The presidential contest will be the marquee event. We will not have many state offices up for grabs. Most of…
October 27, 2011
There was never a more ruthless, cutthroat, no holds barred man to sit in the Oval Office than Lyndon Johnson. His biographer, Robert Caro, describes…
October 20, 2011
The prodigious 2011 Regular Legislative Session not only saw sweeping conservative fiscal changes to state government, the new Republican led…
October 12, 2011
The 2011 Legislative Session has been in the books over four months and the 2012 Session begins in just under four months. The dust has now settled…
October 06, 2011
As the last minutes ticked away on the 2011 Legislative Session last June the last major bills were getting final approval. In the waning hours the…
September 29, 2011
Alabama’s new fiscal year begins October 1. Unlike most states we have two operating budgets. We, of course, have a general fund budget, but we also…
September 22, 2011
The 2011 Legislative Session yielded an avalanche of socially conservative legislation. Paramount on the list was a sweeping new law cracking down on…
September 15, 2011
The much publicized sensational gambling trial which ended in August will be played out again in January. The first trial ended with the jury finding…
September 08, 2011
I hope you enjoyed your Labor Day. Historically this uniquely American holiday, which heralds the end of summer and beginning of fall, also marks the…