Daily Headlines, Friday, 9/5/2008
Birmingham News - William Bell’s bid for Jefferson County Commission seat is up in the air
Birmingham News - Birmingham lawyer Kathryn Harrington, who served with McCain, remembers him with respect, even though he won’t get her vote
Birmingham News - Alabama National Guard foundation helps financially pinched troops
Birmingham News - Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford offers $5.2 million for transit bailout
Birmingham News - United Way of Central Alabama not letting slow economy slow fundraising drive
Press-Register - Alabama GOP pins hopes on McCain
Press-Register - West Nile infects Citronelle, Alabama chicken
Press-Register - Orange Beach, Alabama mayor spends $58.45 per vote
Press-Register - Alabama beach pool report cites changes made after Hurricane Ivan
Press-Register - IRS seeks Prichard, Ala., city attorney’s tax records
Press-Register - Northrop Grumman promoting KC-45 tanker at convention
Huntsville Times - Superintendent: State is headed for proration
Huntsville Times - Schmitz jury goes into second day
Huntsville Times - Former Arab resident killed by gunfire in Iraq
Huntsville Times - New mayor denies charge
Huntsville Times - Want to write acolumn?
Montgomery Advertiser - Love touts values in convention speech
Montgomery Advertiser - Victoryland owner to fight $10M judgment
Montgomery Advertiser - Slow sales in August signal retail weakness
Montgomery Advertiser - Above-average rainfall creates varying yields
Tuscaloosa News - ‘Klan’ comment should cost mayor his job if accurate
Anniston Star - A maverick sent to pasture: McCain’s campaign taking a right turn
Anniston Star - Is this what Alabama Republicans want?
Anniston Star - Phillip Tutor: Bulldoggin’ the election returns
Decatur Daily - Keep politics out of federal prosecutions
Opelika-Auburn News - Editorial: Negative campaigning rubs voters the wrong way
Associated Press - Ralph Nader gets on Alabamas presidential ballot
Los Angeles Times - Prisons worry switch to digital TV may bring static from prisoners …
VOTE NO on robbing the offshore trust fund to cover up the over spending in Montgomery. (I know you will argue that it is a downturn in revenue causing the proration, but we all know how they spend money like drunken sailors down there with very little regard for actual revenue projections. The good thing about drunken sailors is that most of them spend their OWN money!)
Until we have budget reform on Goat Hill these “borrowing” episodes will never end. As long as that large pot of money sits out there the Montgomery elite (Rs and Ds) will have NO incentive to really budget the tax money we already give them.
Just say NO!
Comment by Therm — September 5, 2008 @ 8:38 am
What I don’t get is this: If Bobby Bright feels so strongly against political parties, then why did he run as a Democrat and not an Independent? He could easily have gotten enough signatures solely out of Montgomery to get on the ballot.
Comment by Anonymous — September 5, 2008 @ 9:32 am
Unfortunately, borrowing from the trust funds requires no political courage, while budget/tax reforms require folks to actually do something that might cost a legislative seat or three and tick off the donor base.
Comment by walt moffett — September 5, 2008 @ 11:08 am