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Is The Budget Crisis Truly Insurmountable?

  By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter In the 2012 Legislative Session, the Alabama Legislature was confronted with a daunting choice: raise taxes or cut the State General Fund (SGF) budget by about $150 million a year, so that spending would be right-sized to fit income. Cut taxes or cut spending?  That was the question.  … Continued
July 13, 2015

Byrne Says BP Money Shouldn’t be Used to Fix Budget Mess

  By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Tuesday, July 7, US Representative Bradley Byrne has been widely critical of the settlement that Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange (R) and Governor Robert Bentley (R) announced last Thursday. The South Alabama Congressman is now saying that the settlement is only $1.9 (not $2.3 billion) and that the … Continued
July 9, 2015

McMillan Calls for BP Settlement Money to Go To Trust Fund

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Tuesday, July 7, the Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries John McMillan (R) called on state leaders to put the BP settlement money in the Alabama Trust Fund instead of using it to shore up the troubled State General Fund (SGF): which funds the courts, Medicaid, … Continued
July 8, 2015

Byrne Concerned BP Money May Not Go to Gulf Coast Communities

  By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter On Thursday, July 2, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley (R) and Alabama Attorney Genera Luther Strange (R) announced that the State of Alabama would be receiving $2.3 billion over the next 18 years as part of the $18.5 billion global BP settlement deal for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon fire … Continued
July 3, 2015