WASHINGTON -- The congressional practice of steering public money to hometown for-profit companies, especially popular in Alabama's defense-related industries, was banned Wednesday by the U.S. House committee that writes the federal budget.
Democrats in the Alabama Senate plan to introduce several bills today as part of their new agenda to help Alabama businesses and families, which they said is vital considering the current economy. The proposals include two tax cuts, a state fee cut and investments in the state's housing market.
Attorney General Troy King said he had a "very good conversation" with Gov. Bob Riley this afternoon about electronic bingo but declined to say what he will do with the governor's gambling task force.
A bill that state lawmakers say will create a "culture of conservation" and potentially help douse Georgia's water war with Florida and Alabama is all but a done deal.
Members of an Alabama House committee have heard impassioned and conflicting information over a bill to dramatically increase pen alties for cockfighting.
TODAY’S TAKE: California has fewer people in its workforce today than it did in 1999. For Alabama and Indiana, 1993 is the last time the employment ranks were so thin. And for Michigan — unquestionably the nation’s hardest-hit state in terms of unemployment — 4.1 million people have jobs today. That’s the smallest total since August of 1987, when Ronald Reagan was president.
A bill aimed making sure that Alabama residents who buy tickets to a musical concert actually get to see and hear at least one original member of the group has moved to within one step of final passage in the Legislature.
Alabama is getting closer to being the 20th state to ban text messaging while driving. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Wednesday to approve a text messaging ban that had passed the House in January.
Records related to programs that are overseen by Alabama state Rep. John W. Rogers Jr., at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where Rogers works, were turned over to the FBI Monday.
Data released Wednesday by Auburn Montgomery's Center for Demographic Research shows Alabama's infant death rate was 9.5 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2008. That's a half percentage point higher than the rate reported in 2006.
If there were a nationwide competition called "Who's the Fattest?" Montgomery, Autauga, Elmore and Lowndes counties would have a share of the trophy -- at least among 183 metropolitan areas in the U.S.
