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Flowers: Legislature earned B- at best

Sometimes the best thing that the legislature can do in a session is to pass very little legislation. That can be said of this year’s ... Read more

by Steve Flowers, Wednesday, June 1, 2016 1:03 am

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Hooper helped build state’s GOP

A few weeks ago former Alabama Chief Justice Perry O. Hooper Sr. died at his home in Montgomery at age 91. He was the epitome ... Read more

by Steve Flowers, Wednesday, May 25, 2016 1:08 am

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Easier to find opposition than support

For the past five or six years the legislature has pretty much cut state government to the bone. One of the areas that legislators have ... Read more

by Steve Flowers, Tuesday, May 10, 2016 11:03 pm

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Goldwater sweep wiped out experience

At this time of year Washington, D.C., is a beautiful place to visit. The city is aglow with the blooming of the cherry blossom trees. ... Read more

by Steve Flowers, Wednesday, May 4, 2016 12:09 am

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Could a lottery solve General Fund woes?

As the budget hearings began for the 2016 Legislative Session in January the largest Powerball lottery sweepstakes in American history was playing out. It was ... Read more

by Steve Flowers, Wednesday, April 27, 2016 7:26 am

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After raises, legislature cuts gov’s budget

Some of you may have seen and remember the movie “Groundhog Day” starring Bill Murray. In the comedy, Murray awakens on Groundhog Day and has ... Read more

by Steve Flowers, Wednesday, April 20, 2016 12:00 am

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Poarch Creeks would like Ivey in office

There appears to be very little interest in promoting an effort to impeach Gov. Robert Bentley. With very few legislative days left in the session, ... Read more

by Steve Flowers, Wednesday, April 13, 2016 12:00 am

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Of governor, legislature, glass houses

In early 2009, Dr. Robert Bentley came to see me about his race for governor of Alabama. Bentley was finishing his second term in the ... Read more

by Steve Flowers, Wednesday, April 6, 2016 12:13 am

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Clues to lottery in March 1 elections

This has been an exciting election year when it comes to presidential politics. It has been an extraordinarily unusual and unpredictable presidential contest to say ... Read more

by Steve Flowers, Wednesday, March 30, 2016 12:00 am

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Holley could have gone to Congress

In the literary classic, “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” the author draws parallels to a nation that was on top of the ... Read more