By Steve Flowers On a picture perfect sunny January day, Gov. Robert Bentley was sworn in for his second term as governor, along with all the other constitutional state officeholders. Taking... Read more
By Steve Flowers As the world turns in Alabama politics, a lot has happened in the first three months of 2015. After Inauguration Day, a federal judge in Mobile ruled Alabama’s constitutiona... Read more
By Steve Flowers Alabama’s senior and premier political reporter, Phil Rawls, has retired. Phil spent 35 years reporting on Alabama politics for the Associated Press. He was simply the best.... Read more
By Steve Flowers In recent years, the Republican Party has taken control of the legislatures in all the Southern states. Alabama’s legislature is overwhelmingly Republican. The GOP holds a 2... Read more
By Steve Flowers Our good doctor governor, Robert Bentley, has done a thorough physical exam on the state’s finances and his diagnosis is that the general fund needs additional revenue. His... Read more
By Steve Flowers Alabama may be in the lower tier of the country in some categories but not when it comes to providing health insurance for children. In that one category we excel. Brian Lym... Read more
By Steve Flowers The Common Core education topic is not only a hot political issue in Alabama, it has become a political football nationwide, and it appears to be a hot potato in the looming... Read more
By Steve Flowers The first regular legislative session of the quadrennium has begun. Legislators have arrived in Montgomery for their three-and-a-half-month session and they will face a myri... Read more
By Steve Flowers The first legislative session of the quadrennium convened this week. It’s no secret that the state is broke. Fiscal problems left over from the Bob Riley administration that... Read more
By Steve Flowers As the legislature and governor prepare for the upcoming initial legislative session of the quadrennium, they are facing ominous and obvious problems. The general fund is in... Read more