Posts Tagged ‘Alabama Legislature’

Posted on February 20th, 2010 by Weekly Staff

Legislature considers giving locals more control on quarry siting

Legislature considers giving locals more control on quarry siting

Adam Snyder wraps up the environmental news from Montgomery in this week’s legislative dispatch.

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Posted on January 28th, 2010 by Weekly Staff

Energy bills on the move in legislature

Energy bills on the move in legislature

Adam Snyder, executive director of Conservation Alabama, is providing Green Space with regular updates regarding the status of key bills

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Posted on January 22nd, 2010 by Weekly Staff

Environment on defense during Alabama legislative session

Environment on defense during Alabama legislative session

Adam Snyder provide Green Space with updates regarding the status of key bills related to the environment during the current session of the Alabama legislature

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Posted on January 15th, 2010 by Weekly Staff

How green is my legislature?

How green is my legislature?

Adam Snyder of Conservation Alabama updates Weekly readers on the status of current bills

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Posted on August 12th, 2009 by Kyle Whitmire

Taxation with representation just legislation without imagination

Taxation with representation just legislation without imagination

As I write this, the Alabama Legislature is busying trying to fix what’s wrong with [...]

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Posted on July 23rd, 2009 by Kyle Whitmire

Politician-Assisted Suicide

Politician-Assisted Suicide

How a decade of blunders back-stabs left Jefferson County broke

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Posted on May 27th, 2009 by Kyle Whitmire

Constitution reformers should pick a better target

Constitution reformers should pick a better target

Except for members of the Alabama Legislature, it has been fashionable for political do-gooders in [...]

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Posted on May 21st, 2009 by Weekly Staff

Alabama pays for Legislature’s dead bills

Alabama pays for Legislature’s dead bills

 
The Alabama Legislature ended its 2009 session last week. After three months of work, the [...]

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Posted on May 18th, 2009 by Kyle Whitmire

Collins asks JeffCo departments for 33 percent cuts

Collins asks JeffCo departments for 33 percent cuts

Jefferson County Commission President Bettye Fine Collins has asked county department heads to prepare cuts [...]

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Posted on May 14th, 2009 by Courtney Haden

Goodbye, Bruno’s! So long legislative session!

Goodbye, Bruno’s! So long legislative session!

 
With millions of brightly colored, provocatively designed, meticulously arranged bits of data floating around in [...]

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Posted on May 6th, 2009 by Glenny Brock

Alabama AIDS service orgs may lose up to $10 million in federal funding

Alabama AIDS service orgs may lose up to $10 million in federal funding

When Alabama’s general fund budget was passed by the state senate on Tuesday, it was [...]

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Posted on May 5th, 2009 by Kyle Whitmire

Jefferson County: the End is Near-ish

Jefferson County: the End is Near-ish

State authorities last week seized more than $300 million worth of assets from four banks, [...]

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Posted on April 23rd, 2009 by Weekly Staff

Miss Californication: Jay Loved, House Approved

Miss Californication: Jay Loved, House Approved

UPDATE: The Alabama House might not have passed any legislation to keep Jefferson County solvent, [...]

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Posted on April 22nd, 2009 by Madison Underwood

Gourmet Beer Bill faces same old Senate gridlock

Gourmet Beer Bill faces same old Senate gridlock

Advocates for Alabama’s Gourmet Beer Bill are feeling frustrated, and with good reason – they [...]

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Posted on March 26th, 2009 by Kyle Whitmire

Bankruptcy or hand-tossed

Everyone is clear about what they don’t want
 
It’s not a great mystery why our political [...]

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Posted on January 24th, 2008 by Kyle Whitmire

College chancellor Johnson to plead guilty

Johnson will explain agreements with legislators and school board members. In exchange, feds won’t prosecute Johnson’s family members.

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