Sunday 12/24/2006 DAILY NEWS DIGEST
http://www.al.com/business/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/business/1166955677184540.xml&coll=2 - Alabama seeing big increase in home foreclosures, trend expected to continue.
http://www.al.com/opinion/birminghamnews/elard.ssf?/base/opinion/1166955784184540.xml&coll=2 - Eddie Lard’s commentary offers a Christmas list of state policy decisions that would improve the lives of low-income Alabamians.
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1166955740184370.xml&coll=3 - New York’s Innocence Project says that DNA tests have freed 188 prisoners wrongly convicted.
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1166955639184370.xml&coll=3 - State fights efforts to gain DNA testing for convicted rapist who says it will prove him innocent.
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1166955695184360.xml&coll=1 - Ethics Commission director says Attorney General not pursuing cases.
http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/061224/cobb.shtml - Incoming chief justice outlines plan for non-partisan judicial elections.
http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/061224/giles.shtml - John Giles’ tenure as leader of Alabama’s Christian Coalition comes to end next week.
http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/061224/phone.shtml - PSC expands eligibility for programs that help provide telephone services access to low-income consumers.
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061224/OPINION01/612240301/1012/OPINION - The Montgomery Advertise calls for pay raises for teachers to be linked to classroom performance.
http://www.annistonstar.com/opinion/2006/as-letters-1224-0-6l23t1727.htm - Dr. Randy Brinson (of Redeem the Vote and the new head of the Alabama Christian Coalition) writes that Christian evangelicals can see government as an instrument of good.
