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APR’s Top 5 Under-reported stories of 2016

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
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December 29, 2016

APR’s Top Stories of 2016

By Josh Moon Alabama Political Reporter It is sometimes hard to find material for a top-stories-of-the-year piece. That is not the case for 2016. If anything, trimming this one down to just 10 – by way of carefully including a number of stories inside broad categories – was the trouble. It was no easy task, … Continued
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December 28, 2016
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Alvin Holmes should get Sessions’ seat … sort of

By Josh Moon Alabama Political Reporter There’s a standard practice in the news business around this time of year. Cheap hits. That’s right. We have families and holiday parties and dinners and gift-openings too. And we have to fit it in around still producing content that draws eyeballs to webpages. So, we need a few … Continued
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December 27, 2016
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Save the indignation as Alabama’s clown show goes national

By Josh Moon Alabama Political Reporter The outrage was evident from coast to coast on Wednesday. As news outlets learned that disgraced Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore – twice removed from the bench for failing to meet the standards of judicial ethics – had been interviewed by Gov. Robert Bentley to possibly fill … Continued
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December 22, 2016

Byard to Senate, Bentley’s attorney to AG?

By Josh Moon Alabama Political Reporter As candidates continue to jockey for position in the race to land the soon-to-be-vacated US Senate seat currently held by US Attorney General-nominee Jeff Sessions, the temporary appointment looks more and more like a done deal. On Monday, APR’s Bill Britt reported that several insiders told him that current … Continued
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December 21, 2016

ASU Board votes to fire Boyd

By Josh Moon Alabama Political Reporter The Gwendolyn Boyd tenure at Alabama State University is officially over. ASU’s Board of Trustees voted 8-6 on Friday, following a nearly six-hour meeting, to terminate her contract. Boyd was in her third year at the school and finishing up the first year of a three-year contract extension granted … Continued
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December 16, 2016

Can Joe Reed save Gwendolyn Boyd at ASU?

By Josh Moon Alabama Political Reporter A week prior to the annual Turkey Day Classic football game last month at Alabama State University, ASU employees discovered that someone had broken into the school’s football stadium and cut a fiber optic wire – a costly act that threatened some of the activities planned for the game. … Continued
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December 16, 2016
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The toughest man in America

By Josh Moon Alabama Political Reporter We like tough guys in Alabama. Listen to the stories repeated around this state. Bear Bryant playing football on a broken leg. Or that time Bo Jackson ran over The Boz. We love NASCAR fights, gritty basketball and light-em-up football hits. John Wayne movies would win Oscars this year if … Continued
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December 15, 2016

Sources: ASU board to fire Boyd on Friday

By Josh Moon Alabama Political Reporter The Alabama State University Board of Trustees has the votes to fire embattled university president Gwendolyn Boyd on Friday and will do so unless Boyd negotiates her resignation prior to the meeting, two sources close to the trustees told The Alabama Political Reporter. The sources also said that attorney … Continued
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December 14, 2016

Base housing issues continue to plague Maxwell families

By Josh Moon Alabama Political Reporter For the past five months, the carpet in Jenna Torres’ home on Maxwell Air Force Base has needed replacing. A water leak in late June soaked it, and when that leak wasn’t properly fixed, it was soaked again in July. Now, five months later, the moldy, smelly carpet remains. … Continued
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December 14, 2016