Alabama Tenth Highest State in Energy Related Per Capita CO2 Emissions

By Brandon Moseley
Alabama Political Reporter
The U.S. Energy Information Administration has released new information claiming that U.S. carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions have risen following a decade of declines due to the post-recession economic recover...

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Generation America and Alabama Senior Advocate Veteran Join Forces to Launch National Advocacy Program

MONTGOMERY—Generation America, a dynamic national organization representing conservative senior citizens retained Conwell Hooper to lead its national state advocacy efforts.  Mr. Hooper has served as a lobbyist and consultant to a wide range of senio...

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Adam Thompson Addresses Shelby Country Republican Party

By Brandon Moseley
Alabama Political Reporter
Republican State Auditor candidate Adam Thompson addressed the Executive Committee of the Shelby County Republican Party in Pelham on Tuesday night and 'The Alabama Political Reporter' was there to cover th...

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Changes to voter registration process may be in store

by Beth Clayton
Alabama Political Reporter

MONTGOMERY--The Senate is expected to vote Monday on a bill that will shorten the time period to register to vote by seven days.

Under current law, voter registration applications are accepted until ten days pr...

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Governor wants to delay Accountability Act

By Beth Clayton
Alabama Political Reporter
MONTGOMERY--Governor Bentley announced Wednesday that he plans to introduce an executive amendment to HB658 that would postpone the tax credits from the Alabama Accountability Act.

This bill contains proposed c...

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Senator Vivian Figures stands up for Alabama schools

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By Beth Clayton
Alabama Political Reporter

MONTGOMERY—On May 9, Senate Republicans introduced a bill to modify the Alabama Accountability Act. The AAA would provide tax credits to families who wanted to take their children out of scho...

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Governor rumored to be casting a wary-eye at so-called campaign reform

By Bill Britt
Alabama Political Reporter

MONTGOMERY—A gathering storm of suspicion may very well sink what a republican senator calls “clarifications” to the Fair Campaign Practices Act.

SB445, sponsored by Bryan Taylor (R-Prattville), quietly passed th...

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Governor to seek two-year moratorium on portions of Accountability Act

By Bill Britt
Alabama Political Reporter

MONTGOMERY—Historic, unprecedented, a great new day for the children of Alabama are all words used to describe the Alabama Accountability Act of 2013.

Today, Gov. Robert Bentley will, in so many words, say, “Not ...

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Republicans in Montgomery Take One Last Jab at Public Education

By House Minority Leader Craig Ford

For the past three years, the Alabama legislature under the leadership of the Republican Supermajority has waged a war on public education in Alabama.
 
It started with cutting educators’ take-home pay. Next, the Repu...

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Alabama Legislature Passes Changes to Fair Campaign Practices Act

By Brandon Moseley
Alabama Political Reporter
On Thursday the Alabama House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 445 which amended the Fair Campaign Practices Act to clarify the rules and deal with unintended consequences created by the 2010 campaign ...

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Legislature Passes Changes to Alabama Accountability Act

By Brandon Moseley
Alabama Political Reporter
House Bill 658 sponsored by Representative Jim Carns (R) from Vestavia began as a simple clarification by the House that school boards do not have to grant transfers from failing schools if they do not want...

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Hubbard’s House Conference Hauls in Cash

By Bill Britt
Alabama Political Reporter  
MONTGOMERY—Last week with legislation still pending before the Alabama House of Representatives, all business stopped for a House Republican fundraiser.
The Alabama House Republican Conference—led by Speaker of...

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Roby Advocates for Women's Rights in Afghanistan

By Brandon Moseley

Alabama Political Reporter
Congresswoman Martha Roby (R) from Montgomery has just returned from a four day Congressional Delegation (CODEL) trip to Afghanistan focused on the current status of Afghan women. Rep. Roby also met with U....

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H.S. Automotive Breaks Ground in Enterprise

By Brandon Moseley
Alabama Political Reporter

HS Automotive Alabama breaks ground on the second expansion of its facility in Enterprise.  Alabama Governor Robert Bentley (R) joined other dignitaries at the groundbreaking ceremony on Friday.  HSA makes ...

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Joint conference committee compromises on gun bill

By Beth Clayton
Alabama Political Reporter

MONTGOMERY--Scott Beason's (R-Gardendale) gun bill passed the Senate on Thursday and will go to the House for approval on Monday, the last day of the 2013 regular session.

The final version of the bill is a sub...

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Special Committee Needed to Probe Benghazi Terror Attacks

By Congressman Jo Bonner

Last week, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held hearings on the September 11, 2012, terror attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya that resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including Ambassado...

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Rogers Speaks Out on Obamacare

By Brandon Moseley
Alabama Political Reporter
Congressman Mike Rogers (R) from Saks recently announced in a written statement that he was going to continue to fight against Obamacare as more of the law is implemented on American families and businesses...

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The Gun Bill Shootout

By Beth Clayton
Alabama Political Reporter

MONTGOMERY--On the 29th legislative day, the Alabama Legislature was struggling to find an agreement on gun legislation.

Similar issues have already come through Tennessee. One issue in particular, the issue of...

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Alabama Legislature Passes Education Budget with 2 Percent Raise for Educators

By Brandon Moseley
Alabama Political Reporter

On Thursday, the Republican controlled Alabama House of Representatives passed a state education trust fund budget which includes a 2% pay increase for all K-12 education employees. The House concurred with...

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Roby Says American People Won't Tolerate Being Lied to About Benghazi

By Brandon Moseley
Alabama Political Reporter

Republicans in the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee have been hearing troubling testimony about the Obama Administration response to the attack on the American Consulate in Benghazi and about...

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AG announces third former trooper felony conviction

MONTGOMERY –Attorney General Luther Strange announced a felony theft conviction today of a third former Alabama state trooper for using a state credit card to purchase gasoline for his personal use.  Kenneth Grissett, 52, of Tuscaloosa, had been stat...

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Alabama Democratic Majority Chairman, Justice Mark Kennedy, Denounces Republican Attempts to Make Voting More Difficult

 
Montgomery – The Republican Supermajority in the Alabama Legislature is moving closer to making it more difficult to register to vote in Alabama.  Citizens can currently register to vote up to 10 days before Election Day.  A bill making its way thro...

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Legislature Chooses to Raid Another Trust Fund With No Plan to Pay it Back

 
MONTGOMERY (May 9, 2013) – The state legislature has chosen to take $20 million dollars away from the Children First Trust Fund with no intention of paying it back.
 
Today, conforming to the request of Governor Bentley, a conference committee took $2...

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House, Senate Votes to Remove AEA Executive Secretary From Teachers Retirement Board

By Brandon Moseley
Alabama Political Reporter

On Thursday, the Alabama House of Representatives passed a substitute version of Senate Bill 303 that removed the Alabama Education Association (AEA) Executive Secretary from being an ex officio member of t...

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Roby's Working Families Flexibility Act Passes House

By Brandon Moseley

Alabama Political Reporter

Congresswoman Martha Roby (R) from Montgomery has passed legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives that would change decades old private sector workplace rules regarding over time and how we work. Ro...

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