Posted by http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/116730137710100.xml&coll=2 – State 4th lowest in percentage of women in legislature.
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/116730146910100.xml&coll=2 – Bipartisan group pledges to support Preuitt in race for Senate pro tem.
http://www.al.com/opinion/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/opinion/116730144510100.xml&coll=2 – The Birmingham News calls for increase in cigarette taxes and more funding for programs to discourage smoking.
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/116730127010110.xml&coll=3 – New alleged juror emails surface from Siegelman trial, attorney plans to ask court to set date to consider motion for new trial.
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/116730102710040.xml&coll=1 – Preuitt says that GOP will have some committee chairmanships in new Senate.
http://www.dailyhome.com/opinion/2006/dh-editorials-1228-0-6l27v3052.htm – The Daily Home complains about inequity in allocation of federal resources for education for low-income children.
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061228/OPINION01/612280312/1012/OPINION – The Montgomery Advertiser supports efforts by Corrections Commissioner to increase salary of prison staff in order to attract and retain employees.
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An anonymous comment was left here for this post. It got caught up in the spam filter. I saw it and attempted to restore it before deleting all the spam, but apparently I did not do it correctly. Though I will re-state what it said, I invite the original commenter to leave it again. (Perhaps it was caught in the spam filter because nothing was entered into the name field.) The one-sentence message, best as I remember it, was
“Ha! I guess we see how fluid the Senate situation is.”
Apparently the commenter did not think much has happened in the situation. Some people may watch a football team win 48-45 after being ahead 3-0 and say that not much changed.
However, in the Senate, the last President Pro Tem Lowell Barron has decided not to run again for the role, the election of Sen. Larry Means has not been certified, and one of the most liberal senators (Smitherman) has agreed to join with the Republicans and dissident Democrats. I’d consider that fluid. :)
Not many legitimate comments get caught up in the spam filter, and I’m sorry that this one did. I would be glad for the commenter to try again.