Supposedly the State of Alabama owns 6,560 individual pieces of real estate. The State “supposedly” owns them because the database from which this information comes, the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources’ (DCNR) “State-Owned Land ...
Alabama Must Guard Against Attempts to Restrain Political Speech
For those who thought the exposure of the IRS as a political weapon was an exaggerated anomaly, think again. During Congress's Thanksgiving recess, the U.S. Treasury and the IRS quietly published a new rule to change the parameters of permissible act ...
Legislators Must Close the Revolving Door
In 2013, five of Alabama’s elected officials resigned before their term expired to pursue other employment. Three members of the Alabama House of Representatives took positions that potentially require lobbying of the Legislature. Currently, former s ...
Protecting the New Age of Southern Automotive Manufacturing
Since 1993, Alabama has become a powerhouse of automotive manufacturing. With a strong market in the U.S., Mercedes-Benz, Hyundai, and Honda continue to show signs of increased production. That is great news for Alabama’s workforce and st ...
Food Trucks Hit Speed Bump at Birmingham City Council
When you hear the phrase “burdensome regulations,” what comes to mind? The U. S. EPA’s endless list of red-tape and hefty compliance costs or the thousands of pages of onerous regulations contained in the Affordable Care Act? Especially in bus ...
Obama’s War on Alabama Jobs
Although the Obama Administration claims it has an “all the above” energy strategy, the war on coal makes that claim dubious at best. Coal is an abundant energy source and the White House should be doing everything it can to help the energy industr ...
Federal Government Backs Down on Obstruction of School Choice
In 2008, under the leadership of Governor Bobby Jindal, Louisiana launched an educational scholarship program in New Orleans. The Louisiana Scholarship Program, similar to Alabama’s new scholarship program created by the Accountability Act, is design ...
Alabama’s Criminal Justice System Offers Opportunities for Conservatives
by Katherine Robertson, Jay Neal and Jerry Madden As leaders in the national conservative criminal justice movement, we have witnessed several states successfully implement more effective and efficient sentencing and corrections systems. By adopting ...
Alabama Native Leads D.C. Circuit Court in Strike Down of Obamacare Mandate
On November 1, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decided Gilardi v. HHS ruling against the controversial “birth control mandate” instituted under Obamacare. People of faith from around the nation have waited for an answer on ...
Obamacare Hits Home
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama recently announced that 4% of their 2.1 million statewide members will not be able to keep their insurance plan, due to Obamacare. In the coming weeks, approximately 84,000 Alabamians will receive notice that t ...