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EXACTLY HOW MUCH VOTER FRAUD IS ACCEPTABLE?

by Rep. Jim McClendon (R – Springville) How many fraudulent and dishonest votes are acceptable?  A hundred?  A thousand?  Ten thousand? Those are the questions I asked myself during a recent legislative session when my Democrat colleagues in the House argued that there was not enough voter fraud in Alabama to require citizens to present … Continued
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August 29, 2012
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NEW BAN ON TEXTING WHILE DRIVING DESIGNED TO SAVE LIVES ON ALABAMA’S ROADWAYS

By Rep. Jim McClendon (R – Springville) A new era in Alabama’s road and highway safety began last week when the TTYL – which is textspeak for “Talk To You Later” – Act went into effect.  This new and much needed law prohibits driving a vehicle on an Alabama highway or street while writing, sending … Continued
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August 8, 2012
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House Chairman of Redistricting Committee Responds to Dems Restraining Order

 By Sen. Jim McClendon As House Chairman of the Redistricting Committee, I was not surprised that the Democrats decided to abandon their plans to sue to stop the redistricting process.  They actually filed suit in Montgomery before the legislature approved the House and Senate plans, but that effort has apparently fizzled as well.  It is my … Continued
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July 10, 2012

Jefferson County Tax Increase Dead for this Session

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMRY–Jefferson County’s request for a massive tax increase was blocked in the Alabama House of Representatives in an 18 to 12 vote to remove the vote from the calendar. The debate on the bill was unusually emotional and numerous legislators spoke in favor of or in opposition to the … Continued
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May 17, 2012

Legislature Redistricting Plans Now Are Public

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter The proposed new redistricting maps from the Committee on Reapportionment were made available to the public on Thursday.  Every ten years the legislature has to reapportion the legislative districts as population shift have occurred over the decade.  The constitutionally required redistricting process is based on the decennial United States … Continued
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May 11, 2012

Saving Alabama’s at risk newborns

By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY–SB196 is a bill designed to provide medicine and services needed in the treatment for at-risk newborn babies particularly those born prematurely.
The act would require that the state Medicaid Agency develop and implement policies and procedures to streamline the process for access to covered outpatient drugs for premature infants … Continued
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April 19, 2012

Rising Medicaid Costs Strain Alabama Budget

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Medicaid is a shared cost state and federal program designed to assist the poorest among us with their healthcare costs. However, as the economy has deteriorated more and more Alabama citizens have turned to the program for their medical needs contributing to growing deficit spending by the federal government … Continued
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January 3, 2012

Anniston Star:Tablets for everyone

Staff Report Electronic tablets come in all shapes, sizes and prices, but they are yet another way you can carry the digital world with you and use it wherever you are — and whenever you need it. One of the places electronic tablets can be used is in schools. Two Alabama Republicans — Sen. Gerald … Continued
January 2, 2012

Tablet PCs Have the Capability of Replacing Textbooks

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter For decades, Alabama students have lugged around a backpack filled with their Biology textbook, their American History textbook, their English text book, a foreign language text book, textbooks for elective, spiral notebooks, and often workbooks associated with those big heavy hardback texts. That may be changing. Alabama Senator Gerald … Continued
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December 26, 2011