Residents of the Birmingham metropolitan area can rest assured that a controversial political agenda to eliminate area drinking water protections has been defeated at the close of the 2013 Alabama Legislative Session due to the efforts of student advocates from…
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Investigating Anti-Government, Anti-Tax Groups is the Job of the IRS
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Where’s the Scandal in That? The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Sitting here on the porch listening to the coverage of the so-called IRS “scandal” on National Public Radio, also reading the latest Associated Press story on the…
Memphis Congressman Asks Justice Department to Review Don Siegelman’s Case
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Steve Cohen Also Pressures Attorney General Eric Holder to Stop Prosecuting Marijuana Cases – Watch this video to see Steve Cohen, a Democrat from Memphis, Tennessee, ask Attorney General Eric Holder to look into the political prosecution of former Alabama…
Sierra Club Asks U.S. Forest Service to Withdraw Oil and Gas Lease Sale in Talladega National Forest
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Steve Lohr, Forest Supervisor, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service – By Glynn Wilson – The Alabama Chapter of the Sierra Club is formally asking the U.S. Forest Service to withdraw a plan to lease 43,000 acres for oil and…
Alabama Police Plan to Launch Drones to Monitor College Campuses
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Officials at an Alabama university have divulged a new plan to use unmanned aerial drones to help police monitor, and supposedly protect, students on campus. Law enforcement officials unveiled the plan Wednesday at a press conference at the University of…
A Beach Hotel Conference Center is Not Coastal Restoration in Wake of BP Gulf Oil Disaster
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The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – It’s been about three years since BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil platform exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010. By the time engineers finally figured out how to cap the…
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: But There Will Be Video
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“…I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know … that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m…
Remembering Workers on Memorial Day
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Workers’ Memorial Day – By Al Henley – Alabama workers are encouraged to join the AFL-CIO in recognizing Workers’ Memorial Day on Sunday, On April 28. Each year on Workers Memorial Day, working people throughout the world remember those who…
Fracking Leases Proposed for National Forests White Washed at ‘Public Meeting’
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Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management on the Hot Seat – Steve Lohr, Forest Supervisor, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service – By Glynn Wilson – MONTGOMERY, Ala. – A so-called “public meeting” on oil and gas leases proposed for…
Republicans Kill Worker’s Compensation Overhaul Law
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Republican Senators from Mobile and Mountain Brook killed a bipartisan bill moving through the Alabama Legislature on Wednesday that would have improved Alabama’s ranking on the worker’s compensation to 45 out of 50 states in the country.…
Fracking in the Talladega National Forest is Not in the National, State or Local Interest
Editors Note: The nightmares of natural gas fracking being documented all over America are coming soon to Alabama, brought to you by Halliburton and its real estate agent, the federal Bureau of Land Management — unless enough people get together…
Senate Passes Open Carry Gun Law to Allow Lifetime Permit and Guns in Cars
Republicans in control of the Alabama Senate passed an open carry gun law this week that will allow for free, lifetime permits to carry pistols in cars and trucks and turn the state back in time to the wild West,…
Tea Party Republicans Continue Attacks on Labor, Push Ten Commandments Bill
“The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity.” – Chris Hitchens – By T.W. Bigler – MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Who needs comedy when the state legislature is in…
Ennui and Anomie in the Deep South
“San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. . . . So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and…
Climate of Uncertainty: Planning for the Hoax Apocalypse
By David Underhill – MOBILE, Ala. – Deniers and doubters of global warming, frequent bedfellows with haters of the government, have the government to thank for opportunities to make money off global warming. The accursed feds concluded years ago that…
Edmund Pettus Bridge Makes List of National Historic Landmarks
By Glynn Wilson – The Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama — the scene of the infamous civil rights march on March 7, 1965 that came to be called “Bloody Sunday” — made the most recent list of national historic…
Spring Forward: An Alternative Plan for the Future
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – While the vernal equinox and the first day of spring is still 10 days off, since Daylight Savings Time begins today and the weather has warmed up and the sun’s shining for…
Republicans Push Right To Work Amendment Through State Senate
By T.W. Bigler – MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Republicans in control of the Alabama Senate passed a new Right to Work Bill on Thursday. If it passes the House and is signed by the governor, it would allow voters to decide…
Tea Party Republicans Push Social Issues as Legislative Session Grinds On
By T.W. Bigler – MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Republicans in control of the state legislature wasted taxpayers money again last week by holding hearings on social issues only of concern to the Christian Right that have nothing to do with…
Senate Passes Bill to Allow Ten Commandments Display in Public Buildings, Including Schools
The Big Picture – by Glynn Wilson – Here we go again. Get ready to laugh, Jon Stewart and every other comic in America. Tea party Republicans in control of the Alabama Senate voted Tuesday to pass a proposed constitutional…
If Congress Doesn’t Act by March 1, Automatic Budget Cuts Will Hurt the Economy
The Projected Impact of Cuts on Middle Class Families, the Economy and Jobs in Alabama – Unless Congress acts by March 1, a series of automatic cuts will take effect, threatening hundreds of thousands of middle class jobs. Referred to…