Wednesday 9/5/2007 DAILY NEWS DIGEST

Birmingham News – Alabama ranked 2nd in nation in terms of motorists without liability insurance.

Birmingham News – Growth in state revenues slowing.

Birmingham News – Transit rider launches boycott of Birmingham’s transit system.

Birmingham News – Environmental groups file suits over waterways pollution.

Birmingham NewsThe Birmingham News contends that ADEM needs a “standard approach to punishing polluters, not just to please federal overseers but to ensure that penalties are fair and just.”

Mobile Press-Register – Suspended Mobile judge faces allegations of courtroom paddling.

Mobile Press-Register – Arise report reflects household income down for third straight year; governor’s staff object to assessment.

Huntsville Times – Speaker appoints Dem to legislative contract review committee in spite of Governor’s lobbying for appointment of Republican; committee to review controversial Medicaid contract.

Opelika-Auburn News – Rep. Pebblin Warren (D-Tuskegee) ponders choice of legislature or career.

Montgomery Advertiser – Riley shuffles cabinet positions.

Montgomery Advertiser – New report links insurance to Alabama’s infant death rate.

Senate Sketches – “Senate Sketches,” Sen. Hank Sanders’ (D-Selma) weekly column for his constituents.

2 comments to Wednesday 9/5/2007 DAILY NEWS DIGEST

  • Anonymous

    I love where Joe Turnham complains in the OA News article that Riley and Byrne are trying to “depolitize the two-year college system.” Note to Joe: that’s a good thing. Is he saying the official position of the Alabama Democratic Party is the two-year system should be political?

  • walt moffett

    What is in the water in South Alabama? Judges gone wild?

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