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Steve Flowers
Steve Flowers is Alabama’s leading political columnist. His weekly column appears in over 60 Alabama newspapers. He served 16 years in the state legislature. Steve may be reached at www.steveflowers.us.
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See recent postsOutstanding class of freshmen state senators
"The 10-member class of Republican state senators is a sterling group."
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See recent postsPrisons continue to be an issue
"Ivey and this Legislature did not cause this problem. It has been building up and festering for years."
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See recent postsAlabama may lose a congressional seat, but maybe not
"U.S. Census Bureau estimates indicate that we might dodge that bullet."
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See recent postsReapportionment will be paramount with Legislature
"Drawing their own lines will be legislators' primary interest."
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See recent postsWe lost some good ones this year
We lost some good ones this year, who will definitely be missed as we head into 2021.
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See recent postsA GOP Senate is more important to Alabama than the presidency
"For Alabama’s sake economically, it is more important that the U.S. Senate is majority Republican because of Richard Shelby."
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See recent postsCOVID killed the Don
"The March invasion of the coronavirus derailed the Trump Train," columnist Steve Flowers writes.
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See recent postsTurnout for presidential election shatters record in Alabama
"The driving force had to unquestionably be driven by a fervor to vote for President Donald Trump."
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See recent postsJim Martin: The father of modern Republican Party in Alabama
"Martin was the John the Baptist of the Southern Republican sweep of 1964, and father of the modern Republican Party in Alabama."