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Education Budget Agreement Reached Posted by Danny, on May 27th, 2008, at 5:15 pmThough we have a special session starting today because no deal on the state education budget could be reached, I had heard optimism and confidence that a budget deal would be quickly reached in the special session. And indeed, a deal was announced even before the session started today at 4 p.m. There were other matters in the Governor’s call. See the complete call here. 5 comments to Education Budget Agreement Reached |
ChangeI wish my friend Hinton Mitchem godspeed and good luck after his retirement from public service. Hinton, on Monday, announced what many had suspected — he will not seek re-election. I remember meeting Hinton for the first time while I was a student at Auburn University. He served the people of his [...] Ten Minutes in the House, Senate Moves On Here is a quick preview of the upcoming week in Montgomery. This week will be a standard legislative schedule for the House. We will be in session on Tuesday and Thursday with committee meetings scheduled for Wednesday. Back in the Day... Union Avenue in Ozark in the 1920s |
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From looking over the call, don’t see the grocery tax/income tax bill nor do I see the smoking ban.
The prisoner furlough bill is long over due, the A&I unit in Hamilton is over flowing.
Anyone on here have a clue why Bobby Singleton went against his own party on the original education budget? I saw the usual dissidents on the list, but I hadn’t realized that Singleton was among them on this bill until now.
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SamfordDem, as a matter of pure speculation, what major institution is in Tuscaloosa County and a part of Singleton’s district or was the lack of an appropriation to Tuskegee University and Talladega College?
Party loyalty on the state level has an elastic definition dating back to those years of one party rule.
Is anyone else embarrassed for our state that Paul Hubbert controls EVERYTHING (meaning the majority of our tax dollars) and that NO ONE seems to care?
The Gov should be ashamed. The Higher Ed lobbyists should be ashamed. The people of Alabama should be ashamed.
How do we allow a union boss to tell our representatives (and therefore us) what to do and then allow him to control the PR enough to say that taking money away from benefits for his union members is “hurting our children”. Give me a BREAK!!!!!!