Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day

May the people in your life who are important to you know that they are loved.

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Today’s Purple Dot Connection

Is over that a away.  This is an occassional column/essay/blog post from Natalie Davis, political scientist and  one time political candidate.  Today’s subject is “Suffering from political hangover“.

A short note about today's Legislative audio

Did capture the House meeting and eventually some of the Senate meeting which appears garbled. Anyone get a clear copy?  Will upload my files to the archive after the Joint Session and State of the state speech tonight.

Legislative audio

The Alabama Legislature will meet on the 12th at high noon.  There is audio feed of the session available.  However, the Legislature does not keep an audio archive.  So, it falls us citizens to do it.  It will be captured and uploaded to our archive.

Happy New Year!

Postcard: Best wishes, Jan 1

I hope the coming year is wonderful to you.

Hang on, it’s going to be a wild ride in state politics.

May all the joys...

Nativity

May all the joys of the season be yours today.

Merry Christmas

Scared of Santa

I hope you and yours have a wonderful, merry Christmas.

Landmark Hotel Talisi Burns

Hotel Talisi

Tallassee’s landmark Hotel Talisi was destroyed in a fire this morning. Opened in 1928, the buffet in the hotel’s restaurant was promoted in an Alabama Tourism campaign, “100 Dishes to Eat in Alabama Before You Die(pdf).

StClairCountyAL.com has a fond write-up (”It’s my favorite eating place in all of Alabama.”) [...]

Do or not do. There is no try

Seems to be motto of 13 year old, Marina McKinley, of Saraland.  She has gone from seeing people beg for left overs to providing a meal for them.  She does have a website where donations can be made.

As the saying goes better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

Giving Thanks

Cornucopia

Today, may you give thanks for joys in your life too numerous to count.

Sunday Editorials

Just a few links to today’s editorials, presented in no particular order, below the fold.

Montgomery Pollster with National Rep is Now International

Yulia Tymoshenko

Yulia Tymoshenko

Alabama’s pollster with the national reputation has now gone international. David Axelrod’s former firm AKPD Message and Media brought Montgomery pollster John Anzalone on board to help with Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s campaign for president.

According to Larry Grisolano, [AKPD's] CEO, AKPD has been hired in a consultative capacity, [...]

Happy Halloween!

Jack-o-lantern and bats

Are you dressing up?

Condoleezza Rice Reaches Out to Alabama Citizens

Reader John Crenshaw emails his amusement at the first sentence of this story from the Birmingham News site this morning:

Condoleezza Rice has joined two exclusive Birmingham-area private golf clubs, part of what the former U.S. secretary of state’s team called a plan to regularly visit Alabama and reach out to its citizens.

And, you know, [...]

Melee in Marion

Raised fist

Did you see the story in the Small Town Political Gazette this morning about the big fight in Marion over the weekend that involved two large families and about 150-175 people? The article notes officers were involved from six municipalities (including Marion), three counties, two state agencies, and one federal agency.

[Marion [...]

Small Town News

Small town political gazette – 3/14/10

Demopolis Times - ABI investigation into missing funds inconclusive

Cullman Times - Around round – wet/dry election to be held in Good Hope

The Selma Times-JournalRemembering Joshua

See more Recent Small Town News

 


 

Legislative Dispatch

Change

I 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

Riley and her friend Caroline joined Julie on the campaign trail in Isabella this past weekend.

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.
The House will take up a ten minute calendar this week. A ten minute calendar is [...]

Purple Dot Connection

HAPPY FEBRUARY

Under the “B” … June 1 

                 I’ve tried to follow BINGO rules and BINGO raids.  I’m not sure I understand the law, nor do I get the motives of many of the principal players.  I bet many of you know a heck of a lot more about this than I.  But one thing I am [...]


Back in the Day...

Union Avenue in Ozark in the 1920s

Vintage postcard