Sen. Steve French, Sen. Zeb Little, Rep. Ken Guin, and Rep. Cam Ward will be blogging here during the 2010 Legislative Session.

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 [...]

Week Starts with Gambling Debate

Spent some time campaigning this weekend before heading back into session again

Spent some time campaigning this weekend before heading back into session again

After a weekend of campaigning it is back to work in Montgomery again. As I have been moving around my district I am getting more and more questions about the gambling debate.

It appears that I spoke too soon last week when I [...]

House Passes PAC to PAC and Ethics

The House finished our second week of work with a couple of notable pieces of legislation passing. Rep. Jeff McLaughlin passed his bill to pass PAC to PAC transfers. Jeff has passed this bill out of the House every year I have served there and it always gets re-worked once it goes to the [...]

Leg. Session - Week 2

The second of legislative sessions tend be some of the more boring. Everyone is glad to see each other again on the first week of the session and by week two that fun has worn off. Since only resolutions can be passed in the first week it makes for a somewhat more ceremonial [...]

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

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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

MARCH MADNESS

TOP TEN INDICATIONS OF MARCH MADNESS

10.  Eric Massa inviting us to ask the 10,000 Navy men he served with whether he is gay.

9.  Larry Langford hitting the jackpot 33 times in one day and not remembering it.

8.  Ron Sparks being able to make payments on a $500,000 loan with an income of $80,000.

7.  Artur Davis [...]


Back in the Day...

Union Avenue in Ozark in the 1920s

Vintage postcard