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05/18/10 By Dana Beyerle Montgomery Bureau Chief Armed state agents even searched the pizza.
05/15/10 By Dana Beyerle Montgomery Bureau Chief Artur Davis and Ron Sparks have taken different routes to the June 1 Democratic gubernatorial primary.
05/05/10 By Dana Beyerle Montgomery Bureau Chief The first day of the federal bingo grand jury investigation concluded Tuesday with legislators testifying about State House politics and lobbyists producing records of their work for gambling interests.
05/04/10 By Dana Beyerle Montgomery Bureau Chief MONTGOMERY | Candidates seeking elected office in November will have to fight not only their opponents, but the weak economy. A new governor this January will inherit a budget passed in the legislative session that just ended, and it will be the newly elected who must deal with another year or more of continued economic malaise.
04/17/10 By Dana Beyerle Montgomery Bureau Chief MONTGOMERY | Waterfront property on the Tensaw River that the Department of Conservation is negotiating to buy for public use has a clear title and is available if the price is right, officials involved in the deal said Friday.
04/14/10 By Dana Beyerle Montgomery Bureau Chief A local constitutional amendment that would strip the governor of the power to fill vacancies in Greene County elective offices exposed the partisan nature of politics in the House on Tuesday and renewed charges of meddling in local legislation.
04/03/10 By Dana Beyerle Montgomery Bureau Chief Friday's deadline has passed for Republican and Democratic candidates to qualify for the June primary, leaving two big questions in West Alabama.
03/29/10 By Dana Beyerle Montgomery Bureau Chief MONTGOMERY | More House and Senate members refused a small but automatic pay raise last year as the 2010 election neared, but most still make more than $52,000 a year because of a controversial pay increase in 2007.
03/04/10 By Dana Beyerle Montgomery Bureau Chief State senators had a variety of reasons for their votes on Wednesday to bring up a bingo constitutional amendment for debate. The preliminary vote fell three short of the 21 needed.
03/01/10 By Dana Beyerle Montgomery Bureau Chief MONTGOMERY | A proposed constitutional amendment on bingo that could come up for debate in the state Senate on Tuesday would create regulatory oversight, allow a limited number of bingo casinos and levy taxes on revenue.
02/22/10 By Dana Beyerle Montgomery Bureau The Tuscaloosa County legislative delegation will try once again to secure a vote on Sunday liquor sales in Tuscaloosa.
02/19/10 By Dana Beyerle Montgomery Bureau Chief MONTGOMERY | Members of the Tuscaloosa County House local legislation committee spurned one of their own Thursday, refusing to support three bills introduced by Rep. Gerald Allen.
02/15/10 By Dana Beyerle Montgomery Bureau Chief Locked in a battle with Attorney General Troy King, the state's district attorney's association has taken Gov. Bob Riley's position on a Senate bill aimed at stopping Riley's investigation of bingo casinos.
02/06/10 By Dana Beyerle Montgomery Bureau Chief MONTGOMERY | The sponsor of a bill to rename the Alabama Boxing Commission and bring mixed martial arts fighting under its control said he hopes passage will attract full-contact fighters like Jose Canseco and Herschel Walker to Alabama.
01/30/10 By Dana Beyerle Montgomery Bureau Chief Alabama mental health commissioner John Houston said Friday he will soon seek a project coordinator and architectural bids for a new Bryce Hospital in Tuscaloosa.
01/20/10 By Dana Beyerle Montgomery Bureau Chief West Alabama counties would get almost $30 million over 10 years under a controversial $1 billion road bond issue.
01/15/10 By Dana Beyerle Montgomery Bureau Chief The University of Alabama helped protect the Tuscaloosa metropolitan area against the worst of the recession, but the downturn continues to affect West Alabama and the rest of the state.
01/14/10 By Dana Beyerle Montgomery Bureau Chief MONTGOMERY | State Rep. Gerald Allen has filed a local constitutional amendment that asks voters to prohibit an occupational tax in Tuscaloosa County.
01/01/10 By Dana Beyerle Montgomery Bureau Chief MONTGOMERY | The U.S. Census Bureau is looking for as many as 8,400 temporary employees to conduct and follow up on the 2010 Census in Alabama next year.
12/23/09 By Dana Beyerle Montgomery Bureau Chief A state bond commission on Tuesday started the process to sell up to $139 million in economic development bonds, a move that could facilitate a sale of Bryce Hospital to the University of Alabama.
12/22/09 By Dana Beyerle Montgomery Bureau Chief Gov. Bob Riley praised Medicaid employees for helping Alabama secure a $39.1 million bonus that will help offset increased Medicaid costs. | 
