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Pettiness on display in Congress

The Republican budget committee chairmen in the U.S. House and Senate have their fingers in their ears and ...

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A true need for Alabama’s schools

Schools operated on the cheap fail their first obligation: to properly educate the students sitting in their classrooms.

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Here comes the Legislature

House Republicans have announced their agenda. Gov. Robert Bentley has promised some initiatives that will excite Alabamians, but ...

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What’s the measure of a good man’s life?

A friend of mine was killed last week in a tragic workplace accident. He was only 35 years ...

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Reading is still fundamental

No one disputes reading is important; one might even say fundamental. So when test scores show students lagging ...

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‘Politics ain’t beanbag’

It was back in 1895 that Finley Peter Dunne’s fictional Mr. Dooley first observed that “politics ain’t beanbag,” ...

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Time to help the poor by shedding light on lawsuit lending

For decades, Alabama was known as “tort hell.” The legal environment was tilted toward plaintiffs and businesses were ...

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Sound, small business policies should be approved

Some changes could be brewing in the Legislature that, if adopted, would represent genuinely small business-friendly policy.

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It’s budget time again

Last year, facing state budget problems that seemed on the verge of critical mass, Alabama lawmakers fought tooth-and-nail ...

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Obama’s gun action treads on citizen’s right

My father taught me to shoot guns, the Army taught me to use weapons, and now, my son ...

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