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Eighty percent of Republican respondents supported investments in rural hospitals, with nearly 68 percent supporting increased mental health care funding.
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- Legislature
Alabama Senate approves COVID aid spending bill
Alabama Legislature set to vote on federal COVID aid spending package
Senate approves $772 million for broadband, water and sewer improvement, healthcare
Alabama House approves federal COVID spending package
Alabama bill stops short of ending all shackling of pregnant women
- Opinion
- National
Alabama appeals federal ruling blocking new congressional maps
The Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act dies on Senate floor
Congressman Jerry Carl announces key D.C. staff change
U.S. Supreme Court blocks vaccine mandate for large businesses
John Lewis Voting Rights Act passes in combined package with Freedom to Vote Act
- Education
Birmingham city elementary schools among first in state to offer yoga
Troy University announces new scholarships for transfer students
New data shows children using Waterford Upstart are exceeding mastery of subjects
Birmingham Promise scholarship applications now open for class of 2022
Biden administration extends student loan forbearance
- Health
Alabama’s COVID hospitalizations near record high
UAB epidemiologist: Alabama’s COVID surge could last for several more weeks
Alabama’s child COVID hospitalizations hit another record, four on ventilators
U.S. government to launch free COVID test website Wednesday
Alabama setting record numbers of child COVID hospitalizations
mental health care stories
State
Groups say money should go to expand Medicaid, improve housing, education and access to broadband.
Courts
A federal judge has ordered external monitoring of mental health care in Alabama’s prisons, noting a long and disturbing history of inadequate care and...
Opinion
Alabama’s prisons are notoriously some of the worst in the country. They’re violent. They’re underfunded. They’re unable to handle the mental health care needs...
News
Gov. Kay Ivey’s recently signed a contract with Wexford Health — a company that has been the subject of legislative scrutiny because of its...
News
By House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels Fifteen years ago, Alabama made a promise. Upon ending Wyatt vs. Stickney, the landmark legal decision that led to improved standards...
News
By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY—Governor Robert Bentley wants to float $800 million in bonds to build new prisons. Alabama Department of Corrections...
