Posted by Birmingham News – Jasper businessman agrees to plead guilty to bribery and conspiracy in ongoing investigation of community college system.
Birmingham News – The Birmingham News argues that state employees receive too many paid holidays each year.
Montgomery Advertiser – Alabama’s population growth slowed in ‘07.
Montgomery Advertiser – The Montgomery Advertiser calls for Southern Company to resolve problems at Farley Nuclear Power Plant.
Times Daily – The Times Daily urges compromise to allow expansion of SCHIP.
News link – Philadelphia writer questions whether Alabama, in refusing to grant request for DNA testing in Tommy Arthur case, will execute an innocent person.
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Any one else wonder if and when Roy Johnson will be indicted in the junior college mess? Seems like they are getting closer all the time.
Is slow population growth a bad thing? I don’t think so, less competition for jobs, lower demand for water and development, less urban congestion.
I’m a state employee and even *I* don’t have that many off days. I would have loved to have been off Christmas Eve, or have off New Year’s Eve. No, I’ll be working.
B’ham News may want to clarify as to WHICH state employees have all those “extra” benefits, because it sure as Hell isn’t anyone I know or work with.
Won’t worry too much about the papers think on this issue. These editorials roll out every year about this time for at least the past 28 years. Various lobbies are much too strong to trim the holiday list.