Note: This op-ed was originally published in the Spring of 2018. “He is not here; He has risen!” These are perhaps the most consequential words ever spoken. A man who three days earlier had been violently beaten, hung upon a cross, and buried lifeless ...
COVID-19 Restrictions Unfairly Choke Small Business
When Mark and Susan Anderson were required by a statewide mandate to close the doors of their Dothan clothing and outdoor gear store, Eagle Eye Outfitters, they felt like it was a necessary sacrifice for the good of public health. By limiting retail shopp ...
Points of Policy: Representative Danny Garrett on Balance in the Coronavirus Response
In this Points of Policy edition of the 1819 Podcast, Phil Williams is joined by State Representative Danny Garrett (R-Trussville) for a discussion on the impacts of COVID-19 on small businesses and how the state might protect both the physical and econom ...
COVID-19 Highlights Need to Lessen Restrictions on Rural Medical Care
Dating back to the Obama administration, conservatives have criticized the impulse to “never let a crisis go to waste.” In truth, the impulse is not always wrong. Sometimes a crisis is a good time to address policy issues precisely because those issues w ...
Executive Power in a Pandemic
This unusual moment in history has been full of surprises. Some of those surprises raise profound questions that we will be thinking through for a long time after COVID-19 passes. Many people have been surprised to learn how much power state and county h ...
Exclusive: Senate Pro Tem Del Marsh Comments on COVID-19’s impact on Alabama, State Budgets, Prisons, and more
Birmingham, Ala. – Today the Alabama Policy Institute released an interview with Alabama Senate Pro tempore, Del Marsh through its 1819 Podcast (along with a full transcript). The interview covers Alabama's COVID-19 response and reveals Senator ...
Points of Policy: Senate Pro Tem Del Marsh on COVID-19’s Impact on Small Business and Alabama’s Response to the Crisis
This week, we exchange our weekly news recap podcast for an exclusive and timely interview with Alabama State Senate Pro Tem Del Marsh. During the interview, Phil Williams and Senator Marsh discuss ways the state is reacting to the coronavirus pandemic, w ...
Alabama Policy Institute Releases Report on Possible Impacts from the Coronavirus on State Budgets, Healthcare, and more
Today (April 2, 2020) the Alabama Policy Institute released a report entitled “COVID-19 in Alabama: A Primer on the Impacts of the Coronavirus on the State.” The report details the possible unprecedented impacts of the coronavirus on the health, social well-being, economy, and state government of Alabama.
Preventing death by allowing ‘essential’ murder
We live in wild times. I've watched people all across the political spectrum in recent days deliver impassioned speeches about the need to take extraordinary measures to preserve human life. They say they believe the elderly and vulnerable are just as de ...