By Craig Ford – In two months the state legislature will reconvene for the final time before the next election cycle, and state leaders have announced that this session will move faster than normal. That is to be expected in an election year. Legislators want to finish business before the primary elections get underway. A…
Mitch Reid with the Alabama Rivers Alliance reveals one way Alabama Power controls water policy in the state. By Glynn Wilson – The Bevill technology training center at Gadsden State Community College was the scene Friday for a collaborative effort on the part of government, industry, citizens and environmental groups to form a legal water…
Guest Column – By Mitch Reid – The Roman orator Quintilian once said, “Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.” Last week’s decision by the state of Florida to escalate the water war over Georgia’s use of water for Atlanta should ring as an alarm to the…
The Alabama River from Gunter Hill Campground [click on the photos for a larger view] – By Glynn Wilson – CAMP GUNTER HILL, Ala. – We are back on the Alabama River after the first day of the Legislative Session of 2013. Not much action today. Just a bunch of crazy bills dropped into the…
EDITOR’S NOTE: When government operates behind closed doors and the people are not paying attention — or being adequately informed by the press — the result is inevitably corruption of the democratic process. Such is the case with the Alabama Legislature. There is only one more working day left in this year’s legislative session, according…
Guest Column by David Underhill MOBILE, Ala. — I didn’t like counting out the coins from the fruit jar and adding up how far they would go toward a family’s unpaid bill at the medical group practice where I worked. They fell short. Policy said no patients owing money could get service. Practice allowed exceptions.…
