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By Josh Moon Alabama Political Reporter Over the past year, APR has broken a number of prominent, statewide stories. While many of those have been picked up by other news outlets – some of them lifted nearly verbatim from APR’s website without attribution – a few stories have gone almost unnoticed and with little follow-up … Continued

By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter OPELIKA—A series of witnesses made it clear that Speaker Mike Hubbard was intimately involved in placing language into the Medicaid portion of the General Fund Budget that would give his client, American Pharmacy Cooperative, Inc. (APCI), a monopoly over the multi-million dollar Medicaid pharmacy business. That was until former … Continued

By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter OPELIKA—”A bad day for the defense” is how one prominent defense attorney described Day Two of the Mike Hubbard felony trial. Hubbard’s former chief of staff, Josh Blades, was the State’s star witness on this second day of testimony. Blades revealed Hubbard’s actions regarding the adding of 23 words … Continued

By Amy Hinton Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY – Gov. Robert Bentley Monday signed Executive Order Number 4, establishing the Alabama Health Care Improvement Task Force and challenging its 38 members to develop a statewide plan to not only explore ways to improve Alabama’s poor health rankings, but also to address infrastructure issues currently affecting health … Continued

 By Bill BrittAlabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY— An investigation of a major political scandal asks the same set of questions: “Who knew what and when.” When considering the recent arrest, conviction and plea agreement of disgraced lawmaker, Greg Wren R-Montgomery, the questions to ask are, “Who knew about the plan to place language into the 2013 House General … Continued

By Beth Clayton Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY–Governor Robert Bentley signed legislation into law yesterday that would reform Medicaid in Alabama. The Governor was joined by the SB340s sponsors, Senator Greg Reed (R-Jasper) and Representative Jim McClendon (R-Springville). The law will establish regional care organizations (RCOs) to manage patient care, however it excludes pharmacies, dentists and … Continued