Steve Flowers

Prediction: Clinton v. Bush in 2016

Last week, we speculated on the 2016 U.S. Senate Races. However, the most pressing political event on the ...

Steve Flowers

Koch brothers’ influence monumental

There have been monumental budget battles in Washington and Montgomery this year. The big difference is that the ...

Steve Flowers

Who’d run for Senate? Anybody who’d won 4-H contest

Many of you liked last week’s column detailing our Senior Senator Richard Shelby’s ascent to the U.S. Senate ...

Steve Flowers

Denton’s arrogance helped elect Shelby

In 1986 Richard Shelby was a 50-year-old congressman from Tuscaloosa. He was elected to congress eight years earlier, ...

Steve Flowers

Flowers: Some agencies cut to bone

The State of Alabama fiscal year begins this week and we finally have a budget for the year. ...

Steve Flowers

Bennett, Head left marks on state

When Jim Bennett left the secretary of state’s office earlier this year, he set the record for the ...

Steve Flowers

Alabama’s just one big front porch

Shelby County, Ala., sits in the geographic center of the state and is the birthplace and childhood home ...

Steve Flowers

Wallace caricature explains attitude

It is common knowledge that the Indian casinos in Alabama and throughout the country are granted federal sovereignty ...

Steve Flowers

They were giants in Alabama business

Last week we discussed the legendary story of Aflac. Three more remarkable business success stories are just as ...

Steve Flowers

Before the duck, there were brothers

There is a very iconic company founded in Alabama that has made state, southern, national and international history. ...

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