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http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1143195929102770.xml&coll=2 – Article profiles the efforts by Rep. Mickey Hammon (R-Decatur) to make Alabama the “toughest state on illegal aliens.”

http://www.al.com/opinion/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1143195405102770.xml&coll=2 – Editorial calls for Senate approval of measure to ban PAC-to-PAC transfers.

http://www.al.com/opinion/birminghamnews/bblalock.ssf?/base/opinion/114276397050840.xml&coll=2 – Bob Blalock’s commentary on the  passage by House of income tax reform measure.

http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1143195935102740.xml&coll=3 – John McMillan formally announces candidacy for seat held by Sen. Pat Lindsey.

http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/060324/prison.shtml - New Corrections Commissioner plans new strategies for meeting budget needs.

http://www.gadsdentimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060322/APN/603220708&cachetime=5 – Democrat Tammy Irons wins race to fill seat left vacant by death of Rep. Nelson Starkey (D-Florence).

http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060323/NEWS02/603230342/1009 - Opelika attorney announces candidacy for GOP nomination to Supreme Court.

http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060324/OPINION01/603240314/1012/OPINION - Editorial critical of Roy Moore’s contention that Alabama voters should not have the opportunity to decide whether to convene a constitutional convention.

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060324/NEWS/603240311/1012/editorial1 - Another editorial on Roy Moore’s comments that Alabama voters are not capable of electing representatives to a constitutional convention.

FROM TODAY’S ANNISTON STAR:

EDITORIALS

In an Alabama far, far away

In our opinion
03-24-2006

In some parallel universe, where things that are upside-down here are turned rightside-up, the Alabama Legislature is not mulling whether to pardon Rosa Parks and other civil-rights activists, but has drafted the following resolution:

WHEREAS, African-Americans were enslaved in this state from its founding until their liberation during the Civil War; and

WHEREAS, the law enforcement of this state committed innumerable acts of brutality against non-whites and allied itself with domestic terrorists to suppress the rights of non-whites; and

WHEREAS, Jim Crow laws were enacted and enforced with the express purpose of reinforcing and perpetuating white supremacy; and

WHEREAS, demagogic public officials encouraged the white citizenry to defend white supremacy and resort to any means to maintain it; and

WHEREAS, racist language continues to be found in the Constitution of this state; and

WHEREAS, the scars of officially sanctioned and enforced white supremacy still can be seen across the state of Alabama; now therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the Legislature of Alabama, both houses thereof concurring, that the state of Alabama should ask African-Americans and all who struggled for equal rights for all citizens for a pardon for its unjust laws and brutal practices in the past.