Alabama lawmakers enter the final 4 working days of the legislative session.
Among the bills pending are a bailout of the state’s PACT plan and a ban on texting while driving.
Road and Bridge Bond
Today House members face that billion dollar road and bridge proposal in the full House.
This morning on FOX6 News Good Day Alabama, two [...]
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House Majority Leader Ken Guin (D-Carbon Hill) expects smooth sailing for the Special Education Trust Fund.
Debate begins on the House floor today. The nearly $5.5 billion dollar budget, buoyed by extra millions from a lawsuit and a bond, should cover all teacher slots the state provides. Earlier this session that was not expected to [...]
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Untax Groceries.
It’s the new pitch from supporters of a plan to remove state sales tax on groceries in Alabama. In a new twist, those supporters want to remove the tax on over-the-counter medicines, too.
Kimble Forrister of Alabama Arise is hopeful after announcing a “new way” Thursday.
“With families struggling and state budgets tight,” Forrister says, “this [...]
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Dr. Natalie Davis wasn’t surprised at all at Gov. Bob Riley’s upbeat view of state finances.
“He’s typically optimistic, very Reaganesque,” says the Birmingham Southern College professor of political science.
A little posturing may have been playing into the speech as well as the governor suggested to the Alabama legislature that the “doom and gloom” of state [...]
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