February 15, 2006

In last week’s column we compared the 2006 Governor’s Race to a horserace. Alluding to horserace jargon we compared the four face cards to horses and…


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February 08, 2006

In many ways people who love horseracing and those who love to follow politics are similar. I guess that is why political races are compared many…


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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…


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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…


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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…


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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…


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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…


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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…


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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…


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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…


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