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Articles from the March 1, 2019 edition

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 By Guest Writer    News    March 1, 2019

University of Alabama Dance Marathon

The University of Alabama Dance Marathon raises $248,796.19 for Children’s Miracle Network Hospital Children’s of Alabama Birmingham UADM exists to provide financial and emotional assistance to...

 
 By Steve Flowers    News    March 1, 2019

Inside the Statehouse

State Revenues Up as Legislature Prepares for Session and Crafting of State Budgets March 6, 2019 The Governor has been inaugurated and the Legislature has had its organizational session. The...

 
 By Daniel Sutter    Opinion    March 1, 2019

Two Paths Forward for Healthcare

Numerous prominent Democrats now support Medicare for All, the most recent proposal for a single-payer healthcare system. A recent Trump Administration report, Reforming America’s Healthcare System...

 
 By Robert Tate    Opinion    March 1, 2019

BITS AND PIECES – EVIL ON DISPLAY

It never ceases to amaze me the amount of evil on display here in the good ole’ US of A. Here goes a small sample of what I have seen over the past month. 1. Martha Plimpton: htt...

 

What Shall it Profit Apparatchiks to Win Rigged Elections and Lose their Souls?

As designed, the $80,000 rigged special election on February 19 tax votes in Lee County proffered low (3.6%) turnout results similar to convicted felon Hubbard’s $3 million wasted on our 2012...

 
 By Tobias Grant    Opinion    March 1, 2019

POLISHING A T#RD - A Conversation on Racism

Having an honest and productive conversation about racism is a lot like trying to polish a t#rd ball. It can be done (MythBusters Episode 113), but it’s stinky and messy and in the end what have...

 
 By Ron Holtsford    Legal    March 1, 2019

Can a city such as Birmingham decide to remove existing historical markers or monuments if the city feels it should no longer honor them?

I am sure you are referring to the reaction of the past few years mostly to mentally unstable individuals who have committed crimes of murder and hate and shown to wave the Confederate battle flag bel...

 
 By Bobbie Ames    Education    March 1, 2019

The Native Peoples of Alabama

The Indians were the first native people of Alabama, as we know. Before Europeans came to Alabama, the native people had been here for many generations. They had built mounds and discovered natural...

 

Potpourri for March

The month of March brings in windy, kite-flying days, and much activity in the garden scene. March is the official month of Spring, and the harbinger of warm balmy weather. The dormancy of most trees...

 
 By Steve Long    Outdoors    March 1, 2019

Speckled Trout Fishing In Mobile Bay | Finatics Fishing Charters

Finatics Fishing Charters offers every kind of fishing you could think of in and around the Gulf of Mexico and the Mobile Bay system. With that being said we cut our teeth and continue to target...

 
 By John Martin    Opinion    March 1, 2019

The Great Shutdown

During this past December and January, the United States suffered the longest government shutdown in its history—over a month. But was it really a shutdown? Of course not. Like all of the previous...

 
 By Ed Jones    Sports    March 1, 2019

What I Don't Like About Football

This column will be devoted to the many things that I don’t like about modern day football. As addicted as I am to the sport, there are certain trends that do not enhance the game of football. Even...

 
 By David Spooner    Food    March 1, 2019

Southern Cuisine for March

Have you ever watched a carpenter preparing to make a piece of furniture, or a artist starting to put their vision on a canvas? Or watched a professional chef prep for a meal? Have you noticed what...

 

SOCIAL SECURITY'S RESOURCES FOR WOMEN

March is Women’s History Month. It’s a time when we reflect on the achievements and contributions of our nation’s remarkable women. Many of these heroes might be people close to you: mothers...

 

3rd Annual Dementia Friendly Alabama Golf Classic

Friday, March 29, 2019 Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Prattville, AL (Senator Course) Central Alabama Aging Consortium, the Area Agency on Aging for Autauga, Elmore and Montgomery counties,...

 

The Lifesaving Station

On a dangerous seacoast where shipwrecks often occur, there was once a crude little life-saving station. The building was just a hut, and there was only one boat, but the few devoted members kept a...

 

Seasonal Reasoning

Your Time Again? You were married and for whatever reason you are single now. You’ve spent your life planning retirement with your mate, but now entering your golden years single is not always the...

 

Montgomery County Sheriff's Office

SHERIFF OF THE YEAR DERRICK CUNNINGHAM Sheriff Derrick Cunningham received the Robert D. "Bobby" Timmons SHERIFF OF THE YEAR award during the President's Banquet on Tuesday night, February 26, 2019,...

 

Autauga County Sheriff's Office

THREE NEW DEPUTIES FOR AUTAUGA COUNTY The Autauga County Sheriff’s Office graduated three new Deputies from the Alabama Advanced Criminal Justice Academy on February 26, 2019. Sheriff Sedinger...

 
 By Amanda Walker    Women    March 1, 2019

Tears and Laughter: Beware Of Chicken Fever As Spring Draws Near

Based entirely upon my casual observation, women seem to be more susceptible than men, and children ag it on, but for some reason many people who have never so much as grew a turnip patch suddenly get...

 

"Finding Balance"

Recently, I was listening to a Podcast and one of the speakers referred to the word “ego” as an anacronym. E-G-O….Edging God Out. For me, and maybe for some of you, this is idea or concept is...

 
 By Rep. Martha Roby    News    March 1, 2019

Fighting for Those Who Fought for Us

Here in Alabama’s Second District, we are fortunate to share our portion of the state with two of our nation’s finest military installations: Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base in Montgomery and Fort...

 
 By Rep. Mike Rogers    News    March 1, 2019

What Issues Are Most Important to You?

I want to hear what issues are most important to the folks across East Alabama. Please take a moment to fill out the survey, so I can better represent you. Thank you for taking the time to...

 

President Trump Hits a Home Run

The never-Trumper faction of the Republican Party was wrong. The mainstream media was -- and continues to be wrong. The Democrats just don’t get it. Two years into the Trump agenda to Make America...

 

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