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Will opening the economy occur sooner rather than later?

President Donald Trump recently suggested that the forced economic shutdown might end before the end of this month. “It’s going to be very, very soon,” Trump said at a press conference on Tuesday, “sooner than the end of the month.” On Monday, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said that the state has started conversations on the … Continued
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April 16, 2020

Biden wins South Carolina, focuses on Alabama next

Saturday, as he had predicted all along, former Vice President Joe Biden (D) won a decisive victory in the South Carolina Democratic primary. Biden shifted his focus to Alabama on Sunday and returns to Alabama again on Monday as Super Tuesday looms. Biden easily bested U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) garnering 50 percent of the … Continued
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March 2, 2020

Biden, Bloomberg, Buttigieg, Klobuchar and Warren to travel to Selma

Sunday, Presidential candidates former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, former Vice President Joe Biden, South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg, and U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesoata, will travel to Alabama where they will participate in the events commemorating the attempted crossing of the Edmund Pettus bridge by voting rights marchers during … Continued
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February 28, 2020

Hasdorff calls for “out-of-touch” Mike Bloomberg to visit an Alabama Farm

Republican 2nd Congressional District candidate Terri Hasdorff challenged billionaire Democratic Presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg to come visit an Alabama farm. Hasdorff’s comments followed the re-release of Bloomberg statements dismissing farmers as lacking the “grey matter” to do other jobs. In a 2016 speech at Oxford University in England, the former New York City Mayor said … Continued
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February 20, 2020
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In solving surprise billing, Congress should take the side of patients

For patients in Alabama and throughout the nation, the high costs of health care can often create needless emotional and financial stress. Surprise medical billing—in which patients receive outrageous bills in the mail weeks or months after inadvertently receiving out-of-network care—only adds insult to injury. No one should have to worry about getting hit with … Continued
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December 10, 2019
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What we were — and can be again

I don’t often write book reviews in this space. Indeed, this may be my first one. But the book I’m inspired to review today is one that brings back memories: scary, awful memories. And, yet, inspiring, nostalgic memories. Mitchell Zuckoff’s Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 is in many ways chilling. Zuckoff is masterful … Continued
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September 19, 2019
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Race to the bottom

What is it about Donald Trump that attracts such a following in Alabama? He’s from New York, after all, and being from the Northeast almost always generates skepticism in Alabama voters. Folks, he’s a Yankee. As for his politics, Trump is playing conservative right now, but he’s actually been all over the place. He supported … Continued
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August 8, 2019