Monday 10/8/2007 DAILY NEWS DIGEST

Birmingham News – Survey shows Alabama public employees pay less for health insurance than others.

Mobile Press-Register – Alabama looking to South Carolina in shaping proposal for Gulf Coast insurance reform.

Mobile Press-Register – Mobile County residents to vote on whether to divert road-building revenues to pay $70 million incentive to ThyssenKrupp.

Mobile Press-Register – “The Political Skinny,” the Press-Register’s weekly political roundup from Mobile, Montgomery and Washington.

Montgomery AdvertiserThe Montgomery Advertiser praises actions of Governor in trying to “force the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to treat the state fairly in water-sharing issues.”

Tuscaloosa News – Activists promise to “turn the temperature up” in Greensboro over voting fraud charges.

Tuscaloosa News – Georgia advocates challenging state’s death penalty see new hope.

Tuscaloosa NewsThe Tuscaloosa News finds that Siegelman case keeps “getting stranger and uglier.”

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