Birmingham, Ala. - Today (July 29, 2020), Alabama Policy Institute President Caleb Crosby released the following statement in response to Governor Kay Ivey’s amended “Safer at Home Order” that purports to require masks in Alabama classrooms. “Govern ...
The Need for Education Reform Didn’t Die with the Defeat of Amendment One
When voters defeat a proposed state amendment, it is often thought that the matter is put to rest. That is often the case, but when Alabama’s voters went to the polls in March and shot down a proposal to replace the elected state board of education in fav ...
Accountability Act Schools Continue to Serve Students with Excellence in Coronavirus Crisis
As the coronavirus pandemic impacts the world, our news feeds are full of tragedy and sacrifice. These stories of financial hardship, sickness and death dominate the news cycle. This is not, however, the full story. Across the state, the private sec ...
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 ...
Success in coronavirus response must be defined and coordinated
Isn’t it amazing to see the grandstanders who show up in a crisis that have the luxury of not having to own a plan? I’ve heard a bevy of pundits and those not actually in charge of anything (elected and unelected) shouting that the sky is falling. None ...