The voters of Alabama have spoken and decided to give Alabama’s elected officials more time to sort out the reforms needed to put Alabama’s fiscal house in order. The message from the proponents of the September 18 constitutional amendment was this: ...
One of the most troubling things about the statewide September 18th vote on the constitutional amendment to transfer $437 million out of the Alabama Trust Fund (ATF) is that so few people even know that there will be a vote, much less what it is ...
If you were to tell someone that September 1st will mark the 23rd anniversary of the Alabama Policy Institute (API), Alabama's leading conservative think tank, they might respond, "That's great. Who is API and what's a think tank?" There are probably ...
Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued thousands of pages of regulations that threaten existing energy producers with catastrophic fines and industry-killing regulations that smother the U.S. economy and force energy prices h ...
The Declaration of Independence states that to secure certain unalienable rights, "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...." Likewise, the Alabama Constitution notes "hat all political powe ...
Even though it was thirteen years ago, I remember it as if it happened yesterday … someone called me to say that John Giles’ son was missing. The next day I was told that the body of Micah Giles had been found in his father’s Jeep, off I-65 just nort ...
In a recent campaign speech, presidential candidate Mitt Romney criticized President Obama for pushing his agenda on healthcare when the economy is in such dire straits. “The President’s responsibility is to put people back to work, and to get people ...
In the U.S., July 4th is the day we celebrate our freedom. On that day in 1776, the Declaration of Independence was adopted, forever breaking America free from the shackles of the British government. But 236 years later, we find ourselves shackled a ...
Only a few weeks ago, college graduations took place all over the country. Families traveled to see their loved ones receive diplomas and move on to another chapter in their lives. And after four or more years of college, those graduates are hoping f ...
While attention is focused on the pending decision from the U.S. Supreme Court on Obamacare, the Court will issue another decision that could have major ramifications for the state of Alabama. Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians v. ...
