After Mississippi scandals, committee pumps brakes on prison health contract
By Chip Brownlee Alabama Political Reporter An Alabama legislative oversight committee is pumping the brakes on a $360 million contract between the Alabama Department of Corrections and a...
View ArticleState ignores potential for financial collapse in selecting troubled company...
By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter The state’s Legislative Contract Review Committee has momentarily halted a nearly $400 million contract with a prison health provider that is currently being...
View ArticleCourt grants Tom Parker injunction in his case vs the JIC
By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Friday, federal district judge Keith Watkins court in Alabama issued a preliminary injunction in favor of Alabama Supreme Court Justice Tom Parker. This...
View ArticleCounty sheriffs under fire, but the facts are a little skewed
By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter Recently, a lawsuit led primarily by Atlanta-based Southern Center for Human Rights and joined by Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, has garnered...
View ArticleAnalysis | Are Hubbard-Riley emails key to answering the mystery surrounding...
By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter Controversy still clings to HB317, also known as The Alabama Jobs Enhancement Act, despite the substitute added Tuesday that, at first blush, appears to fix...
View ArticleSenate, House leadership divided over calendar realities of passing gun...
By Chip Brownlee Alabama Political Reporter The two top leaders of Alabama’s Legislature seemed somewhat divided Thursday about the realities of getting gun and school safety legislation out of their...
View ArticleFormer Jefferson County DA sentenced to six months in jail
By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (R) announced Thursday that former Jefferson County District Attorney Charles Todd Henderson (D) received a...
View ArticleState sets new record low unemployment rate
By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Alabama has never experienced a jobs market this robust. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey announced Monday that Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted January...
View ArticleHouse passes General Fund Budget
By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter The Alabama House of Representatives passed the state General Fund Budget on Tuesday. The General Fund Budget for the 2019 fiscal year is Senate Bill 178....
View ArticleLawmaker admits new ethics bill would have saved Mike Hubbard from prosecution
By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter In what may be one of the most brazen acts of upending state ethics laws, Republican Rep. Rich Wingo admitted on Tuesday that his legislation, HB387, is...
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