Mobile Bay Times

April 16, 2014

The new liberal racism. By E.W. Jackson Sr.

April 15, 2014

Senate GOP may run purple.

Why do oil industry tax breaks persist?

April 14, 2014

Dinner & A Movie: Catfish on Garlic Cheese Grits Surrounded by Asparagus Smothered with Crab-meat Hollandaise Sauce. By Jim Hasser.

Tax firms often do poor job.

Political rifts slow U.S. efforts on climate laws.

April 13, 2014

Democrats settle on fairness issues hoping to avoid a repeat of 2010 midterm disaster.

Who's setting the agenda?

New York Times: Echoes of the super-predator.

Los Angeles Times: Low-wage workers pay the price of nickel-and-diming by employers.

Sears is dying: What the ubiquitous store’s death says about America.

April 12, 2014

Obama and LBJ: Measuring the current president against the past one’s legacy.

Speaker Hubbard: 2014 legislative session a success.

April 11, 2014

Michigan may be the GOP’s best answer to the ‘war on women.’ By George Will.

April 10, 2014

Speaker Hubbard: 'I'm under political attack.'

A no Wren situation.

April 9, 2014

Senate Sketches by state Sen. Hank Sanders: 'The last 24 hours.'

True the Vote Founder to Congress: "I will not retreat. I will not surrender. I refuse to be intimidated."

Issa accuses Cummings of colluding with the IRS.

April 8, 2014

Data uncovers nation's top medicare billers.

Doctors won't fight Obama on release of Medicare data.

What American health care can learn from Germany.

Wren chirps: Hubbard in a wringer?

Hunting the RINO's.

Inside the Statehouse with Steve Flowers: Agriculture still Alabama's most important industry.

April 7, 2014

Rand Paul blasts entitlement spending during visit to Mobile.

April 6, 2014

Reviewing a mostly unremarkable legislative session.

Boeing checking out options to fight increasing rivalry from Airbus.

April 5, 2014

Cheap shots in Alabama.

Her first, and last, book.

Speaker Hubbard reacts to plea deal.

AEA: Not just for Democrats anymore.

April 4, 2014

Dinner & A Movie: Crawfish quiche and 'Girl In Progress.' By Jim Hasser.

A tax reformer's uphill push.

April 3, 2014

Local casinos a losing bet.

The president tries to put a good face on Obamacare.

2014 legislative update: Alabama Legislature OKs new requirements for TANF recipients, doesn't end lifetime SNAP, TANF bans for people with felony drug conviction.

The Perfect Lobby: How one industry captured Washington, D.C.

April 2, 2014

Senate Sketches by state Sen. Hank Sanders: Spring Break ain't no break for me.

Montgomery Advertiser: Wren's plea deal may lead to House Speaker Mike Hubbard.

Bobby Jindal, with an eye on 2016, to unveil plan to replace Obama health-care law.

2014 legislative update: Bill to end lifetime SNAP, TANF bans still alive but loses procedural vote in Alabama House.

April 1, 2014

Lawmakers tourism grants carry odd political odor.

Police confront rising number of mentally ill suspects.

The week in the Legislature: Budgets to get top priority;

Only 3 days left in this legislative session.

Pittman doubts Bentley can get teacher pay hike.

A legislative summary.

Inside the Statehouse with Steve Flowers: Alabama tumbles from top of conservative states list.

2014 legislative update: Alabama House sends tight General Fund budget to Bentley; ETF plan wins Senate approval, awaits House vote.

March 30, 2014

Roby: South's right-to-work auto industry being targeted by OSHA.

March 29, 2014

Can we close the pay gap?

Inviting lawmakers to pose as heroes by giving us our money back.

March 28,2014

Real Deals by Kathy Jumper. Apartment complex sells for $15 million; Credit union buys west Mobile office building; Whataburger, Big Lots, Little Caesar's with area plans; Office building sells for $615,000.

Inside the Statehouse with Steve Flowers: Close knit group helped plan state GOP races.

Is American democracy headed for extinction?

Alabamans struggle most to afford health care, medicine.

Fact Check: Was Sen. Joseph McCarthy right?

March 27, 2014

Armistead giddy over mid-term election prospects.

Alabama Democratic Party boots Flott from ballot.

Why Americans like Obamacare (and why they don’t) — in two charts.

Twenty-three reasons Florida (yes, Florida) is the best state in America.

Deadline near, health signups show disparity.

Smearing climate skeptics.

March 26, 2014

FBI dumps Southern Poverty Law Center as 'hate crimes' resource.

March 25, 2015

Senate Sketches by state Sen. Hank Sanders: Voter ID law the same as literacy tests.

Dispatches from the war against vote fraud.

March 24, 2014

Deepwater Horizon oil left tuna, other species with heart defects likely to prove fatal.

Insurers push to enroll people as health care deadline nears.

The conservative myth of a social safety net built on on charity.

Wal-Mart's dependence on food stamps revealed.

March 23, 2014

H. Brandt Ayers: Bully for the GOP.

Bob Davis: A reading list for Alabama legislators.

March 22, 2014

Lawmakers’ bills just ran out of time.

industry finds unlikely new allies in conservatives.

March 21, 2014

BCA endorses Bentley.

After ruling, Alabama joins two states in moving to alter voting rules.

Rand Paul: The most intriguing man in today’s Republican Party.

Paul Ryan was right — poverty is a cultural problem. By George Will.

Anniston Star: The next Southern star — Republicans struggling to find electable national candidates from the South.

March 20, 2014

Summary of action in Alabama Legislature.

State House parties run late: Republican, Democratic disputes leave House burning the midnight oil.

2014 legislative update: Final shape of General Fund, education budgets unclear as plans advance in Alabama Legislature.

Dinner & A Movie: Beef Tacos and Anna Karenina. By Jim Hasser.

Inside a Berkeley coffeehouse with Rand Paul.

March 19, 2014

Administration plays to young in health care push.

Journalists’ and activists’ strange approach to low-wage workers.

March 16, 2014

House Republican leaders craft their vision for an alternative to health-care law.

March 15, 2014

Becoming the Party of Work: How the GOP can help struggling Americans, and itself. By Jeff Sessions.

South Carolina GOP Poll: Jeb Bush leads White House hopefuls.

March 14, 2014

End of Gulf ban allows BP to expand into familiar, lucrative waters.

Glenn Ford's first days of freedom after 30 years on death row.

March 13, 2014

Big companies helped fund a secretive Alabama GOP non-profit, report finds.

Mississippi to begin drug testing food stamp recipients.

California brewer tells state legislators to play fair.

'I'm With Phil': What started as a joke changed with the April 27 tornado that struck Phil Campbell, Ala.

GOP could force vote to negate Obamacare carve-out for unions.

March 11, 2014

Lawmaker proposes bill to lure California brewer to Alabama; state's small brewers not included in legislation.

New House GOP Report Reignites IRS Scandal --

Group says former official targeted conservative groups for political reasons.

March 10, 2014

Real Deals by Kathy Jumper. Saltaire sells; Gulf Shores gets its Mojo's on; Nursery rhymes; Blue Collar Country news on the horizon; Marley eatery talk; Creola action.

Thousands march across Edmund Pettus Bridge for commemoration of 'Bloody Sunday.'

This Week in the Legislature: Medical marijuana oil bill.

Putin's pique.

Who's watching you online?

Why Republicans should embrace immigration reform, in one chart.

Editorial: A decision that still matters — Anniversary of Times v. Sullivan is time to reflect in Alabama.

Free voter IDs in Alabama.

March 9, 2014

Today is the 50th anniversary of the (re)-birth of the First Amendment.

The Boys in the Bunkhouse.

Prison inmates signing up in droves for ACA.

Washington Post: Obama's risky transportation plan.

States finding ways to skirt cuts in food stamps, frustrating congressional goals.

March 8, 2014

Leading Republicans move to stamp out challenges from the right.

Budget battles hit final days.

The uninhibited press, 50 years later.

March 7, 2014

Why this is the worst jobs recovery for state and local governments in 40 years.

Conservatives try to make criminal justice reform a signature issue.

Editorial: Improve state's long-term budgeting.

California eggs Strange on.

Crimea and the hysteria of history.

March 6, 2014

10 Restaurants New Orleanians Won't Tell You About: An insider's guide to the best places to eat well in the crescent city.

March 5, 2014

Italy's young prime minister in a hurry.

March 3, 2014

The best and worst TSA checkpoints.

March 2, 2014

Rand Paul pitching libertarian ideas to social conservatives. And they are listening.

March 1, 2014

Joe Biden for president?

Obamas set new record for vacation travel expenses; stonewalled documents finally released.

Feb. 28, 2014

Dinner & A Movie. By Jim Hasser. Sauteed shrimp/green rice & 'The Gatekeepers.'

Obama administration won't release the real name of American it's considering killing without a trial.

Gene Kamena: Alabamians have little to gain from unions.

Feb. 27, 2014

Senate bill would phase out sales tax on groceries.

Feb. 26, 2014

Legislative summary.

2014 legislative update: Dial grocery tax bill, landlord-tenant changes advance in Alabama Legislature

State Sen. Hank Sanders' Senate Sketches: The making of Jubilee is a thing to behold.

2006: Riley gets donation, Hubbard gets cash.

Feb. 25, 2014

Legislative summary.

ALGOP denies ballot access. Some critics say party too lenient.

Democrats challenge prospective candidates on loyalty.

Whitewashing Benghazi.

Obama administration: Health law’s new rules will increase costs for most small businesses.

Inside the Statehouse: Key to power in D.C. is seniority.

Pat Buchanan: Repeal all civil rights laws!

Graduation rates across Alabama: The Class of 2013.

Where the good jobs will be 10 years from now.

Feb. 24, 2014

This week in the Legislature: Budgets in the spotlight for both houses.

Senate to consider limited powers for Alabama counties.

Why big cities so often lose in state legislatures.

Obama's unfulfilled challenge.

The First Amendment: Under assault.

GOP seeks to stymie infiltration of party by candidates of convenience.

Lyndon Johnson's rules of life.

Feb. 23, 2014

State expects to turn over Bryce Hospital grounds to University of Alabama by June.

ObamaCare and my mother's cancer medicine.

Feb. 21, 2014

Alabama GOP removes four from ballot, including Baldwin County circuit judge candidate Ginger Poynter.

Nation’s governors meet in D.C. this weekend to test the chilly bipartisan waters.

Reduce the prison population, but jail violent criminals longer.

Obama proposes cuts to Medicare.

Five key questions – and answers – about the threat to Volkswagen investment in the South.

Why is Obama administration using taxpayer money to back a nuclear plant that’s already being built?

Feb. 20, 2013

Department of Justice puts all states on notice: Prisons' sex abuse cases could threaten federal funding.

The United States' sales tax map.

Big Brother, errr, the FCC, Wades Into the Newsroom:

Why is the agency studying 'perceived station bias' and asking about coverage choices?

Shock waves over Obama administration’s plan to put government monitors in newsrooms.

Feb. 19, 2014

Dinner and a Movie by Jim Hasser. Shrimp and Goat Cheese Cream Grits & 'Now You See Me.'

2014 legislative update: Alabama Senate panel discusses plan to end state grocery tax, raise sales tax on other items.

Selling Alabama, and it worked — Remington’s arrival in Huntsville is one business deal that makes sense.

Arkansas sends message to Alabama on Medicaid expansion: Don’t do it!

South's workers must weigh cost of unions.

Coburn wants investigation of Labor Department.

Feb. 18, 2014

New Alabama Power CEO talks economic development, regulations affecting utility.

Alabama GOP hears challenges to candidates who took AEA contributions.

Inside the Statehouse with Steve Flowers: We've got a caretaker and an ideologue watching over us in D.C.

Nixon still runs the GOP: How the white South dominates the party. From Salon e-zine.

Our decadent elites. By Peggy Noonan.

Feb. 17, 2014

State officials hoping Internet sales tax will provide state windfall. But will it be enough?

Organized labor's future in the South.

Feb. 14, 2014

Swing voters deserting Obama.

Feb. 13, 2014

Whither long-running investigation of Hubbard?

Feb. 12, 2014

Chris Christie's rise and fall.

The Vampire Squid Strikes Again: The mega banks' most devious scam yet.

Abraham Lincoln's brilliant method for handling setbacks.

Feb. 11, 2014

Real Deals by Kathy Jumper.

Hydropower new weapon in Alabama-Florida-Georgia water wars; Consumption in Georgia raises power rates in Alabama, Jeff Sessions says.

Five 'entitlements' for the wealthy that make things worse for everyone else.

Feb. 10, 2014

More than 80,000 people protested in Raleigh last weekend. Here's why.

Feb. 9, 2014

Once big backers of Democrats, trial lawyers now spending big on Republicans.

Chastened GOP tries to foil insurgents at primary level.

Feb. 8, 2014

38 Communist talking points from 1963.

Feb. 7, 2014

The health-care myths we live by. By Charles Krauthammer.

Feb. 6, 2014

Riley PAC: Well-muscled but not quite a sexy beast.

Anniston lawyer to challenge Senate Pro Tem Del Marsh.

Feb. 5, 2014

Obama not 'offended' if vulnerable Dems avoid him.

A rare look inside the Koch brothers' political empire.

Senate approves bonus for state retirees.

Feb. 3, 2014

Folsom files papers to run for lieutenant governor as a Democrat.

Feb. 2, 2014

Primary qualifying deadline is Friday.

Battles loom in many states over what to do with budget surpluses.

Washington Post: Government has to make voting easier.

U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions: The original Tea Partier.

Jan. 29, 2014

Real Deals by Kathy Jumper. Area home builder gets partner, new name, adopts ambitious plan for 2014.

For 2016, Hillary Clinton has commanding lead over Democrats, GOP race wide open.

Democrats: Cede the House to save the Senate.

Jan. 28, 2014

Dinner & A Movie: Ham, Cheese and Broccoli Quiche

& 'At Any Price.' Reviews by Jim Hasser.

Hubbard, Marsh awarded by Riley's partner, others.

Jan. 27, 2014

Democrats hope Obama’s State of Union speech will be start of populist agenda.

Teeth are needed in Open Meetings Act.

Robert Reich: Where is the angry middle-class revolution?

Tuscaloosa News: Constitutional convention isn't the solution.

Jan. 26, 2014

The 10 Obama policies and failures that most anger liberals and independents.

Jan. 24, 2014

Can Republicans win in 2016 by changing their rules?

14 Republicans who might run next time.

Jan. 21, 2014

Today's agendas in the Alabama Legislature.

Week One: A little bit of work, a whole lot of Moulin Rouge.

Alabama's lawmakers laying groundwork for U.S. constitutional convention.

Worley: Democrats must stay on point.

Jan. 20, 2014

Martin Luther King's Letter from the Birmingham Jail.

The march on Montgomery. By Renata Adler.

King's legacy as an anti-poverty crusader.

The racism that still plagues America.

How race and religion have polarized American voters.

Nearly half of all black men and 40 percent of white men in America arrested by age 23.

Jan. 19, 2014

GOP takes lesson from Democrats in bid to retake control of Senate.

Despite improving economy, Obama approval rating stays low.

The undeserving rich. By Paul Krugman, New York Times.

Unions circling wagons on court case.

Jan. 17, 2014

Will New York City become the next Detroit?

Jan. 16, 2014

Real Deals by Kathy Jumper.

Our selfish 'public servants.'

Jan. 15, 2014

Dinner and a Movie: Chicken Fettuccine and The Company You Keep. By Jim Hasser.

Governor is right to pursue stronger open meetings law.

Governor's office predicts sunnier budget picture.

Another housing bubble looming?

History lesson for the president.

Jan. 13, 2014

A rising tide of dark money.

Upcoming Supreme Court cases weighty, if not many.

Jan. 6, 2014

Hubbard using campaign contributions to pay legal defense team.

Fix health care, ignore immigration. By Quin Hillyer.

Jan. 5, 2014

Running out the Clock: GOP leaders hope for quiet, quick session in state Legislature.

Jan. 4, 2014

Set up your own bill tracker for this session of state Legislature.

New York Times: Rampant prosecutorial misconduct.

Jan. 3, 2013

Alabama Democrats recommend six for appeals court.

Why America's doctor shortage might mean trouble for Obamacare.

Jan. 2, 2014

2014 elections nothing like 2010's big crowd.

A speck in the sea.

Conservative of the Year: Rep. Daniel Issa.

Dec. 30, 2013

2013's lessons for conservatives.

Chamber's war on the right is so wrong. By Quin Hillyer.

Dec. 28, 2013

The end of a Deep South way of life.

Dec. 26, 2013

Lack aid? Many counties have only very pricey plans.

Does bell toll for excessive public pay?

Dec. 25, 2013

Eight ways to opt out of Obamaare.

Dec. 23, 2013

Alabama Blue Cross shares Obamacare tax woes with consumers.

Dec. 22, 2013

Does Obamacare punish responsibility, reward irresponsibility.

The genuine conflict being ignored in the Duck Dynasty debate.

When 60 Minutes checks its journalistic skepticism at the door.

Dec. 21, 2013

Real Deals by Kathy Jumper.

Health care's road to ruin.

Mixed messages add anxiety as deadline nears for health care law.

Dec. 20, 2013

Farewell to the 'most hated white man in the South.'

Dec. 19, 2013

The dangerous Dr. David Bronner.

Whither the Welfare Queen?

Dec. 18, 2013

Democrats strike back to preserve Bronner's 'total unilateral control.'

The silver lining for Democrats on Obamacare.

Will Accounability Act be big financial boon for ex-governor and partner?

With more payday lenders than McDonald's, cities begin to take action.

Dec. 17, 2013

States with higher black turnout are more likely to restrict voting.

Is Putin one of us?

Dec. 16, 2013

U.S. economic recovery expected to gain strength in 2014.

Obama suffers most from year of turmoil, poll finds.

Dec. 15, 2013

Renewed attack on Bronner really causing a stir.

Taking a stand: Former Alabama inmate's lawsuit alleges rapes by prison guard.

Dec. 14, 2013

Solving the shortage in primary care doctors.

Raise the minimum wage? It's iffy. By George Will.

Dec. 13, 2013

The Political Round-Up: Three terms enough for Ison; GOP legislator won't seek re-election in 2014.

Shelby calls for investigation into Alabama environmental groups and their use of federal grants.

Bentley takes tougher tone on Medicaid expansion under Obamacare; Coalition trying to get governor to alter stance.

Montgomery Advertiser: Governor's refusal to expand Medicaid makes no sense.

Dec. 12, 2013

Hubbard: Keeping it in the family.

Alabama progressives plan organizational meeting in Mobile.

Dec. 9, 2013

Christie's Hispanic outreach a national model?

On health exchanges, the devil is in the details.

Amid the uproar over health law, quiet voices of optimism and relief.

Is Alabama county out hundreds of dollars or millions?

Dec. 6, 2013

Is this 36-year-old veteran the future of the GOP?

Dec. 5, 2013

Real Deals by Kathy Jumper.

Dec. 4, 2013

Hubbard received campaign contribution from Malzahn.

Senate Sketches by state Sen. Hank Sanders.

Dec. 3, 2013

GOP's toxic messaging.

Health-care law’s critics see court case over subsidies as their last shot.

What makes a maker or taker state.

Will Obamacare cost Democrats control of U.S. Senate in 2014?

Dec. 2, 2013

New Orleans restaurant scene rises, reflecting a richer city.

Cost of health care law seen as decreasing.

A new wave of challenges to health law.

Supreme Court won't hear challenge to Obamacare's employer mandate.

What health care can learn from Whole Foods and Apple.

Supreme Court declines case on making online retailers collect sales taxes.

Alabama in heated race to land Boeing plant, 1,000-plus jobs.

Point Clear's Grand Hotel wins honors as as nation's best historic hotel.

Dec. 1, 2013

How the Nazis used gun control.

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