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03/30/10 By Dana Beyerle Times Montgomery Bureau The House member who traditionally sponsors legislation to remove the state sales tax on food has altered his measure to make it more palatable.
03/10/10 By Dana Beyerle Times Montgomery Bureau Three Gadsden-area schools will participate in a statewide plan next school year to increase the number of students taking Advanced Placement math, science and English courses, Gov. Bob Riley announced Wednesday.
02/24/10 By Dana Beyerle Times Montgomery Bureau House Government Appropriations Chairman John Knight on Wednesday sought a compromise to a bill giving the Legislature veto power over moving or privatizing mental health facilities.
02/12/10 By Dana Beyerle Times Montgomery Bureau State legislators who attended a news conference about bingo casino jobs with Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks said Friday they weren't endorsing Sparks who, in a gubernatorial campaign press release with their names on it, attacked opponent Artur Davis.
02/11/10 By Dana Beyerle Times Montgomery Bureau State Sen. Larry Means, D-Attalla, on Thursday said he'll try to block a proposed constitutional amendment legalizing electronic bingo unless Etowah County is guaranteed a bingo casino.
01/26/10 By Dana Beyerle Times Montgomery Bureau Republican gubernatorial candidate Bradley Byrne on Tuesday said opponents who are in a lawsuit over two-year college system policies established while he was the system chancellor are trying to intimidate him. Byrne said a process server attempted Monday to serve him a subpoena to give a deposition in the lawsuit after dark at his home while he...
01/21/10 By Dana Beyerle Times Montgomery Bureau Senate Republicans on Thursday continued to filibuster a constitutional amendment sponsored by a Democrat who wants to tap the oil and gas trust fund for a $1 billion road and bridge program.
01/19/10 By Dana Beyerle Times Montgomery Bureau Northeast Alabama counties would get $22 million over 10 years under a controversial $1 billion road bond issue that Gov. Bob Riley said he tentatively supports. Etowah County would get nearly $4.9 million over 10 years. Senate Democrats on Tuesday backed a proposed constitutional amendment by Sen. Lowell Barron, D-Fyffe, but Republicans...
01/15/10 By Dana Beyerle Times Montgomery Bureau A Montgomery judge on Friday temporarily halted enforcement of a state school board policy that caused at least two House members to miss the Legislature this week. Montgomery Circuit Judge Johnny Hardwick temporarily halted a policy that requires all two-year college employees to take either personal, annual or unpaid leave to attend second jobs...
12/22/09 By Dana Beyerle Times Montgomery Bureau Sudden silence over any deal between the state of Alabama and the University of Alabama for Bryce Hospital property is making a statement all its own.
12/22/09 By Dana Beyerle Times Montgomery Bureau Gov. Bob Riley praised Medicaid employees with helping Alabama secure a $39.1 million bonus that will help offset increased Medicaid costs.
12/18/09 By Dana Beyerle Times Montgomery Bureau Plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Gov. Bob Riley and the mental health department met with the governor this week to express their concerns about a pending sale of Bryce Hospital.
12/18/09 By Dana Beyerle Times Montgomery Bureau The 2009 class of endangered whooping cranes landed Thursday in Alabama, led by ultra light aircraft that are guiding the juvenile cranes on their first migration to wintering grounds in Florida.
12/07/09 By Dana Beyerle Times Montgomery Bureau MONTGOMERY - The Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles on Monday declined to release the man convicted of shooting a Guntersville police officer who was investigating a violent domestic disturbance in 1993.
11/17/09 By Dana Beyerle Times Montgomery Bureau Legislative Democrats and Republicans on Tuesday swapped charges about unaudited state funds spent by economic development agencies in west Alabama that are controlled by a powerful Democratic senator.
11/05/09 By Dana Beyerle Times Montgomery Bureau A trip by Gadsden-area government officials Thursday to Montgomery to meet with state Department of Transportation officials saved Gadsden-area governments $163,000 on a road project.
10/06/09 By Dana Beyerle Times Montgomery Bureau State officials are beginning to react to the national health insurance reform debate in Washington.
10/05/09 By Dana Beyerle Times Montgomery Bureau MONTGOMERY - A former south Alabama Republican Party chairman on Monday said he is running for Public Service Commission Place 2 in the June 1 GOP primary. Mobile real estate broker Chip Brown said he will seek the party nomination for the seat held by Democrat Susan Parker. She is seeking re-election.
10/01/09 By Dana Beyerle Times Montgomery Bureau State budget experts knew the fiscal year would end on a somber financial note, but managing Alabama's money shortages will require careful maneuvering until the national recession ends.
09/30/09 By Dana Beyerle Times Montgomery Bureau Please, no jokes, but there are rats in the Alabama State House, the four-legged variety, where the Legislature meets.
09/24/09 By Dana Beyerle Times Montgomery Bureau The state board of education voted Thursday to expand its two-year college system chancellor search to at least 11 of the 40 candidates who have applied. | 
