Public trust at stake in 2012 legislative session Cullman Times Online Jess Brown, a longtime student of Alabama politics and professor of Political Science and Justice Studies at Athens State University, observed the 2012 legislative session will take place in a volatile political environment; one in which a fickle and ...
EDITORIAL: Climate change should have effect on politics Tuscaloosa News Azaleas are budding and daffodils can be found in full bloom along rural roads around West Alabama. Is that proof of global warming? Hardly, but that doesn't mean evidence of sustained, rapid climate change isn't mounting. Consider this: Nine of the 10 ...
Immigration Politics: More Than Jobs Huffington Post (blog) Mostly, Romney, Gingrich and Santorum pile on the old tropes about job-stealing Mexicans, criminal gangs of Latinos, the porous border that may be infiltrated by no less than al Qaeda, and, of course, President Obama's craven incompetence in securing ...
James L. Evans: Editorializing faith, politics Anniston Star Out of the dozen or so papers that carry my column in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi, about half feature it on the editorial page, and the other half in the religion section. I don't get a vote, and I have no complaint with that.
Editorial: Fact vs. fiction and illegal immigration Minneapolis Star Tribune Politicians are entrenched along partisan lines that in some cases are at odds with their party's history. A decade ago, key Republicans championed the DREAM Act as a sensible but rigorous way to provide permanent residence to individuals brought into ...
Political Analyst Says Individuals Can Sway State Legislators Through ... WHNT However, political experts suggest you've actually got plenty of power to sway the debate. Alabama Policy Institute General Counsel Cameron Smith says, "To be quite frank, the best thing that you can do is actually communicate.
A Quick Note From Alabama The League of Ordinary Gentlemen He does (mostly) non-political blogging at Hit Coffee and can be found on Twitter. Not A Potted Plant: A Quick Note From Alabama ~ Feb. 01. 2012. ~ I'm away from my regular life right now, attending to a very seri... Read More American Times: Even ...
Artur Davis leaves law firm Politico Artur Davis has parted ways with law firm SNR Denton just a year after the Alabama Democrat joined its white collar and government investigations practice as a partner — and he's not ruling out a return to politics. “I'm not sure what I'll do,” Davis ...
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