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Only Abortion Clinic from Tuscaloosa to Nashville to Close Monday

By Lee Hedgepeth Alabama Political Reporter HUNTSVILLE – According to its director, the only health care facility in northern Alabama that offers abortion services, will surrender its license next Monday. Director Dalton Johnson has said that new structural requirements for facilities set out in the Women’s Health and Safety Act, a pro-life bill signed into … Continued
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June 25, 2014

APCI CEO Speaks Out on Wren, Silent on the Speaker

By Lee HedgepethAlabama Political Reporter BESSEMER – For the first time since his company was named in multiple court documents related to the Lee County public corruption investigation, American Pharmaceutical Cooperative, Inc. CEO Tim Hamrick has spoken out, shining light on some of the earlier events that led to the eventual arrest and conviction of … Continued
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June 23, 2014

US Supreme Court Decision Delivers Mixed Bag for Alabama Whistleblower

By Lee Hedgepeth Alabama Political Reporter WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday the United States Supreme Court issued their decision in Lane v. Franks, a decision arising from the 2006 Central Alabama Community College scandal involving the firing of then State Representative Suzanne Schmitz from her position there, and the subsequent, alleged retaliation by the institution against … Continued
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June 20, 2014

Strange Asks Court to Rewrite Alabama’s Sodomy Law

By Lee Hedgepeth Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY – The Alabama Legislature’s inability to react in the wake of Lawrence v. Texas, a 2003 US Supreme Court opinion declaring all laws prohibiting private, consensual sexual acts between adults unconstitutional, may prove fatal to the prosecutions of those accused of serious sexual misconduct throughout the State. In … Continued
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June 20, 2014

Lawsuit Filed Over Prison Health Care

By Lee Hedgepeth Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY – The Southern Poverty Law Center, the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Center, and the Alabama Department of Corrections have been in a back and forth over the last few weeks regarding claims of inhumane, illegal treatment of the State’s prisoners, resulting in the two nonprofits filing a lawsuit against … Continued
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June 18, 2014

Studies Show Alabama is Corrupt, Unemployed and Under Educated

By Lee Hedgepeth Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY – A recent string of studies released by various nonprofit organizations portray different aspects of Alabama life in a rather negative light, ranking the Yellowhammer State one of the most publicly corrupt, most unemployed and most under-educated nationwide. Public Corruption Earlier this week a study coauthored by professors … Continued
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June 16, 2014

Roby Says She Was Misled as the VA Scandal Manifests in Alabama

By Lee Hedgepeth Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY – This week, the book-cooking scandal that has rocked the US Department of Veterans’ Affairs manifested itself in Alabama in an ugly way. US House Representative Martha Roby said Wednesday that though she was told by the director of the Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System that all … Continued
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June 12, 2014

Joe Reed Calls Kennedy’s Action Misleading and Fraudulent

  By Brandon MoseleyAlabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY — On Monday, June 9, the Chairman of the Alabama Democratic Conference (ADC), the Black Political Caucus of Alabama, in a written statement accused former Justice Mark Kennedy of “misleading people across the state and nation in an effort to fatten his own political pockets.” Reed made his … Continued
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June 10, 2014