December 01, 2011
Barbour County is known as the Home of Alabama Governors. It claims six former governors. Indeed, this is the most of any other Alabama county. The…
November 24, 2011
A few months ago I compared the route taken to Washington by our congressmen of 50 years ago to the paths of our delegation on the Potomac today.…
November 17, 2011
The Electoral College process of selecting a president rather than electing our nation’s chief executive diminishes Alabama’s importance in next…
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…