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Series Part 3: How Can Alabama Address Its Medicaid Crisis?

By Henry C. Mabry This is the final in a three-part series focusing on Alabama’s Medicaid issues. More funds are available without raising taxes Besides utilization, the other major issue concerns funding and this does not mean nickeling and diming taxpayers year end and year out to bandaid the system.  Funding can be addressed in … Continued
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May 5, 2016

Senate Votes Not to Repay the Trust Fund

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter On Wednesday, April 13, the Alabama Senate passed Senate Bill 267 sponsored by State Senator Bill Hightower, which is a constitutional amendment which diverts most of the BP oil spill settlement money to new road construction. In 2012 voters were asked to go to the polls and approve borrowing … Continued
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April 18, 2016
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Gov. Bentley Now a Benign Punchline

INSIDE THE STATEHOUSE by Steve Flowers There appears to be very little interest in promoting an effort to impeach Governor Robert Bentley. With very few legislative days left in the session, legislators have a myriad of problems to deal with, not the least of which are the budgets, especially the General Fund. The financial woes … Continued
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April 13, 2016
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The BP Settlement Belongs to All of Alabama

  By Thomas Scovill SB267 is a bill proposed by Senator Hightower of Mobile County, to grab the State’s BP settlement money for road projects in Baldwin and Mobile Counties on the Gulf coast. The $1 billion in the State settlement is just one of many settlements. Many individuals, businesses, and local governments have already … Continued
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April 5, 2016

Auditor Gets Budget Cut in the Senate

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Wednesday, March 23, the State Senate gave final approval Wednesday to the 2017 State General Fund (SGF) budget, SB125, passed earlier by the State House. The SGF budget now goes to Alabama Governor Robert Bentley (R), who can sign it into law or veto it, sending it back to … Continued
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March 24, 2016

The General Fund Needs Injection of New Money

By State Senator Jim McClendon Medicaid and the entire health delivery system for the State of Alabama is a House of cards, and one of the integral cards is Medicaid itself.  If Medicaid falters, the entire system falters. Without Medicaid, hospitals will close, and the entire system will be jeopardized. Thousands,  no, hundreds of thousands … Continued
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March 16, 2016

House to Debate General Fund Budget 

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter On Tuesday, March 15, the Alabama House of Representatives will be back in session. The main topic of the day is expected to be the State General Fund budget (SGF). Again ballooning Medicaid and Department of Corrections costs and the chronic lack of growth revenues dedicated to the SGF … Continued
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March 15, 2016