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1954: A meteorite weighing eight and one-half pounds crashes into Ann Hodges of Sylacauga as she rests on her living room couch. The event gave Hodges a severely bruised hip and instant celebrity status. The meteorite, the first one known to have caused injury to a human, is housed at the Alabama [...]
 Posted by Danny, on November 29th, 2008, at 5:57 pm
Democratic Agricultural Commissioner Ron Sparks will apparently be a candidate in 2010, according to the website Sparks2010.com that launched today. The site does not specify what office he would seek, though an Anniston Star piece reprinted on the site mentions that Sparks “is sounding more and more like a [gubernatorial] candidate every day.”
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1902: The New York Medical Record publishes an account of Dr. Luther Leonidas Hill performing the first open heart surgery in the western hemisphere when he sutured a knife wound in a young boy’s heart. Dr. Hill was the father of Alabama politician and U.S. senator Lister Hill.
1982: Actor, Lucas [...]
 Posted by Danny, on November 28th, 2008, at 8:45 am
Perhaps you have seen this already, but on Wednesday Press-Register political editor George Talbot considered what a Jo Bonner gubernatorial bid could do to the political landscape in 2010.
An excerpt:
Bonner, 49, is viewed as the sort of diplomatic deal-maker who could bring order to a jumbled field of GOP hopefuls, enabling [...]
 Posted by Danny, on November 28th, 2008, at 8:33 am
Freedom’s Watch is “pretty much kaput,” according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal this week. Freedom’s Watch was active in the AL-02 and AL-05 Congressional races on behalf of Republicans Jay Love and Wayne Parker respectively.
There is more reading on this here.
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 Posted by Danny, on November 28th, 2008, at 8:20 am
How much are our Wall Streets bailouts costing us? After we adjust for inflation, the bailouts cost more than the Marshall Plan, the Louisiana Purchase, the race to the moon, the Savings & Loan crisis, the Korean War, the New Deal, the Invasion of Iraq, the Vietnam War, and NASA – combined.
Bloomberg [...]
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1947: Writer, Gustav Hasford, was born in Rainsville
1981: Bear Bryant became college football’s winningest coach, earning his 315th victory when the Alabama Crimson Tide beat Auburn 28-17
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On this day – and every day – may the joys and blessings for which you give thanks be too numerous to count.
Happy Thanksgiving.
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Legislative DispatchBy Joe Hubbard on June 8, 2011 This Thursday will mark the last day of the legislative Session. For some, it was a Session that seemed would never end. For others, it was one that ended much too quickly. It may be early, yet, to write an obit on this Session, but as we approach the finish line, some perspective may be in order.
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AL House, AL Senate, Legislative Dispatch, Uncategorized | By John Merrill on May 24, 2011 As you know, a very important piece of legislation will be presented for our consideration in the House tomorrow in Montgomery – Senate Bill 310 – the “Students First” tenure and fair dismissal reform bill. Like me, many House members have been inundated with phone calls and emails from opponents of this bill, and some have been [...]
Legislative Dispatch | By Cam Ward on May 17, 2011 There are a lot of issues to debate before we begin the final days of this session. In fact, I am quite certain there will be some comments on this post debating many of them. Before we get into the last seven day of the session I wanted to bring up a topic that [...]
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