Daily Headlines, Saturday, 6/9/2012

Posted by H, on June 9th, 2012, at 4:54 am

Montgomery Advertiser – Peanut farmers seek help in bill

Montgomery Advertiser – Montgomery to add meters to handicapped parking spaces

Montgomery Advertiser – Man gets 53 months for tax evasion

Montgomery Advertiser – International program has its eye on LAMP

Montgomery Advertiser – S&P affirms reduced rating of federal long-term credit

Huntsville Times – Big Brothers/Big Sisters of North Alabama faces financial woes due to budget cuts

Huntsville Times – 5 percent tuition increase at Alabama A&M is smallest in 3 years

Huntsville Times – Palmer said robo-calls to Madison residents were not from his campaign headquarters

Huntsville Times – Madison finance committee gets answers to questions

Huntsville Times – EDITORIAL: Alabama’s mean prisons

Huntsville Times – Alabama’s broader new stalking law inspired by the murder of a Huntsville nurse (editorial)

Birmingham News – Birmingham area home sales up 21 percent in year-over-year comparison

Birmingham News – Jefferson County to hold first sewer hearing on Tuesday, 30 minutes later than first announced

Birmingham News – Talladega National Forest gas lease sale pulled

Birmingham News – Birmingham rally opposes Obama health care mandate; AG Luther Strange vows fight

Birmingham News – Health officials, including in Alabama, investigate 6-state outbreak of E. coli (video)

Birmingham News – Alabama State audit cites past Jefferson County Commission spending

Birmingham News – Jefferson County officials say server problem restored and financial system again functional

Birmingham News – Alabama students create posters for the National Civic Data Challenge

Press-Register – USA Board of Trustees vote to increase tuition and fees 7.7 percent

Press-Register – Judge sentences 2 for helping scheme to overbill Alabama Medicaid in hemophilia case

Press-Register – Water experts say improved irrigation could put millions into Alabama’s rural economy

Press-Register – Passenger rail worth studying despite ‘ifs’ (editorial)

Press-Register – Stephnen Nodine is entitled to fair, though costly, trial (editorial)

Press-Register – Looks like Poarch Creek casino is here to stay (Press-Register editorial)

Anniston Star – Our neck of the woods: Consider Talladega National Forest off-limits to drilling for oil, gas

Anniston Star – Investing in Alabama: State Legislature should take Bronner’s advice more often

A Look from the Rearview Mirror

By 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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Putting Students First

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 [...]

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Legislative Transparency

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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