By Artur Davis An unlikely dynamic has emerged in the Alabama Attorney General’s race: three of the four Republicans running and both Democrats have acknowledged that one of the most powerful local law enforcement tools, the authority to confis ...
Licensing away economic prosperity
By Allen Mendenhall Do you want to alleviate poverty in Alabama? Do you want to curb the power of special interest groups over government agencies? Do you want more affordable goods and services in basic industries? Do you want to help disadvantaged ...
Civil Asset Forfeiture “Has Created Serious Problems”
By Jason Snead, Policy Analyst in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation This week I had the privilege of meeting with some of Alabama’s leading lawmakers and policy experts to discuss an issue of urgent impo ...
Pro-Life Values Should Go Beyond the Ballot Box
By Brooke Bacak Voters in Alabama have great concern for the unborn. After Tuesday’s special election, many feel anguish over the loss of a reliably pro-life Senate seat, which could affect federal judicial appointments over the next several years. Witho ...
School Choice: The Positive Effect of Accountability
"Choice in education is no mere abstraction. Like its economic cousin, free enterprise, and its political cousin, democracy, it affords hope and opportunity." --President Ronald Reagan This week is National School Choice Week--a week designated "to publ ...
School Choice: Providing Options for Families in Our Community
"Choice in education is no mere abstraction. Like its economic cousin, free enterprise, and its political cousin, democracy, it affords hope and opportunity." --President Ronald Reagan This week is National School Choice Week--a week designated "to pu ...
A Poverty Program That Worked
By Lawrence W. Reed, President of the Foundation for Economic Education We’ve become accustomed to think of poverty-fighting as a 20th Century undertaking, with the federal government leading the way. For that reason, this quotation from an American ...
Ending the Cycle of Poverty Through Mutually Transforming Relationships
Jason Williams is the Executive Director of the Aspire Movement which seeks to transform urban youth to reflect Christ & restore their communities through mutually transforming relationships between youth and mentor. It’s another hot ...