Recently the American Association for Retired People (AARP) sent a petition to the Alabama Public Service Commission (PSC) urging the PSC to reconsider their Report and Order issued regarding the Alabama Power Company rate structure. On the surface, ...
Four months ahead of the start of the 2014 Legislative Session which begins January 14, 2014, Senator Phil Williams (R- Rainbow City) has prefiled the “Licensure Freedom Act”, SB 22, which would prohibit physician participation in any public or priva ...
As I write this opinion I am a few days removed from the final round of Alabama’s budgeting melee. It was a thorough and exhausting process and while I am not entirely satisfied with the result I recognize that there were some solid victories in the ...
On September 6, Area Development magazine named Alabama the fourth best state in the nation for doing business. According to the magazine, states were ranked on factors such as: business environment, labor climate, and infrastructure. Governor Bentle ...
As October 1st and the implementation of the Affordable Care Act otherwise known as Obamacare quickly approach, Republican members of Congress are faced with a tough decision over whether or not to provide funding for the new programs created by the ...
Formerly the manufacturing metropolitan city envied by the industrialized world, Detroit now resembles a movie’s post-apocalyptic setting. Large buildings have fallen into disrepair and abandoned homes comprise nearly one-fourth of the city landscape ...
In 2002, in the early days of the war in Afghanistan, I had a great conversation with an Afghan man on the outskirts of the Coalition area of operations. He was amazed by the technology, values and freedom that I described to him in the land tha ...
On August 6, the Alabama Policy Institute received a letter from Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) inquiring into the Institute’s affiliation with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and specifically ALEC’s support of “stand your ground” laws. ...
A few weeks ago, I wrote about President Obama's aggressive move to ‘stack’ the D.C. Circuit with a three-judge nomination. Republicans have attacked this action based on concerns about the nominees’ constitutional theories and have also questioned t ...
Mandatory minimums, when assigned to a crime in the penal code, set the lowest available punishment that a judge may sentence an offender to for a specified crime. Typically a defined term of imprisonment, mandatory minimums have been in place ...
