Steve Flowers

Bold prediction: It’ll be a New Yorker

We will vote to select the 44th president Tuesday. The next president will be a New Yorker. Whomever ...

Steve Flowers

State GOP has roots in ‘62 elections

The year was 1962. John Kennedy was president. Camelot was in full bloom. The Congress was controlled by ...

Steve Flowers

Squatlow feared attack on Abbeville

Ole Bill Baxley has been in the news a lot this year. He was the lead defense counsel ...

Steve Flowers

If Trump wins, will Sessions get SCOTUS appointment?

Our junior U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions has risen to national prominence in this pivotal presidential year. His arch ...

Steve Flowers

On political reporting, new books

During this election year I have watched all the politics on television. In order to judge the coverage ...

Steve Flowers

Fond food, drink memories from The Elite

Alabama’s most famous political restaurant and watering hole for 50 years was Montgomery’s Elite Restaurant. Until it closed ...

Steve Flowers

Moral opposition is weakening in Dixie

Folks, I have been observing and participating in the legislative process for more than 50 years. Lest you ...

Steve Flowers

Local politics: Many incumbents lost

There is no truer adage in the political world than “all politics is local.” Therefore, the best politics ...

Steve Flowers

Opinion: If Trump wins, Sessions could be on court

Throughout this year’s prodigious presidential selection process our junior senator, Jeff Sessions, has been at the forefront. He ...

Steve Flowers

TV ads less than effective this year

In 1960 television was a new medium. Most Americans did not have televisions in the early 1950s. However, ...

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