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 Posted by Danny, on August 6th, 2009, at 9:32 amIn August, Wade on Birmingham is giving us Birmingham Biggest’s Crooks, a “celebration of Birmingham’s most notorious crooks, whether they be liars, thieves, extortionists, swindlers or thugs.” You get one a day, ending on August 31 when Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford goes on trial in federal court for charges of bribery and conspiracy. Today’s update reaches [...] Posted by Danny, on July 17th, 2009, at 2:14 pm Upon her confirmation, Regina Benjamin would actually become the third Alabamian to serve as U.S. Surgeon General. Alabamians Luther Terry (appointed in 1961) and David Satcher (appointed in 1998) also served in the role. Luther Terry is responsible for one of the more visible roles of the U.S. Surgeon General. From [...] Posted by waltm, on March 22nd, 2009, at 7:39 amThe Anniston Star has placed in their no login required section, the first of a four part series about this Civil Rights era murder. You don’t know where you’re going unless you know where you’ve been. Posted by Danny, on February 12th, 2009, at 9:12 am Sen. Hinton Mitchem hands in his resignation as Senate President pro tem I have been interested in the vote by Tom Butler (D – Madison) for Rodger Smitherman (D – Birmingham) as state Senate President pro tem last week and in what that might mean for the dynamic in the state Senate this year. Crash [...] Posted by waltm, on November 14th, 2008, at 7:01 amDr. Glen Browder’s four part essay on Alabama’s new racial order and its future concludes at the Birmingham Weekly. At the end are links to the other parts of the essay. In this installment, he discusses and cites research on the current and future state of race and Alabama politics. A brief quote:
Posted by waltm, on October 29th, 2008, at 7:23 amA four part essay by Glen Browder, former Congressman and now a political scientist begins at Birmingham Weekly. An excerpt to wet the whistle:
Posted by Lucius, on August 1st, 2008, at 11:55 am Justice Antonin Scalia in a recent interview was asked how he could maintain his friendship with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg despite such ideological polarization. Justice Scalia responded, “I attack ideas, not people.” Sadly, such a view seldom makes its way into politics. Mudslinging is by no means a recent development in American or Alabama politics. [...] Posted by Lucius, on June 24th, 2008, at 2:01 pmLife moves at a little slower pace down here at the end of the dirt road and as temperatures climb, there’s no better place to be than sitting on the front porch with a cold glass of tea. Long, slow afternoons watching the heat radiate off the hay field allow a great deal of [...] Posted by Danny, on May 29th, 2008, at 10:51 am Republican state Sen. Harri Anne Smith had a fundraising reception Tuesday night in Enterprise for her campaign for the AL-02 Congressional seat. A noteworthy name on the Host Committee list was developer Ronnie Gilley. This session Smith introduced a bill to reverse regulations allowing electronic bingo at [...] Posted by Chauncey Sparks, on April 25th, 2008, at 3:25 pm Two Alabama Political Blasts from the Pasts have released new books. While both pols were once at the top of the state’s political heap, the books could not be more different. The more traditional release is a biography of former Alabama Governor John Patterson. The book Nobody But the People is actually written [...] Posted by Danny, on January 18th, 2008, at 11:21 amOriginal post has been removed. Wow… a fabulous source told me a very interesting story that I repeated here. A commenter did some research and revealed that the story was not true. I checked with my source who said that the story was a well-worn chestnut and who was very surprised to find [...] Posted by Danny, on May 22nd, 2007, at 3:11 pmWBHM’s radio show Tapestry interviews Mark Berte, Grassroots Education Director for Alabama Citizens for Constitutional Reform on the documentary “It’s a Thick Book” and the shortcomings of the state’s 1901 constitution. You can hear it online from this webpage. Interesting, for example, on what this constitution costs the taxpayers… Berte says the [...] Posted by Danny, on May 21st, 2007, at 12:12 pm In 2004, Homewood High School student Lewis Lehe exercised his right to vote for the first time. Though he thought he had prepared himself, he was surprised to find constitutional amendments on the ballot that affected places in Alabama he had never heard of. Why was he asked to vote on an amendment that affected [...] Posted by Danny, on May 1st, 2007, at 8:49 am I continue to tell folks that “It’s a Thick Book” is an entertaining look at our state’s 1901 Constitution. Now you can easily see for yourself to tell me how right or wrong I am. “It’s a Thick Book” can now be seen online via streaming video. It doesn’t get any easier than [...] Posted by Danny, on April 19th, 2007, at 8:23 am On the occasion of the state Democrats’ Jefferson-Jackson Banquet featuring President Bill Clinton tomorrow night, here is a photograph from a similar occasion in the past with another Clinton connection. The featured speaker at the state Democrats’ fundraiser in May, 2002 was James Carville, famed for his [...] |
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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