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Gov. Kay Ivey on Wednesday released an extra, conditional state appropriation that — when matched with federal dollars — will provide a total of $78 million in extra payments to state hospitals for treating Medicaid beneficiaries. “I want to do everything I can to help our hospitals provide the services needed to keep Alabamians healthy,’’ … Continued

Our insurance stinks.  My wife and I have a 1-year-old daughter, and the family health insurance plan that we signed up for through her job — because it was the best of several bad choices — is, according to every person who handles insurance payments at every doctor’s office we’ve visited, “the worst we’ve ever … Continued

Sometimes I feel like a broken record, but here we are once again. Another year, another budget, and another failure to provide our retirees with a cost-of-living pay raise. It’s becoming a disturbing tradition that every year I have to write about our State Legislature’s failure to treat our retirees with the respect they deserve. … Continued

Where is Jason Taylor? Taylor, one of former state superintendent Michael Sentance’s most controversial hires, was brought into Montgomery by the Alabama State Department of Education to serve as chief financial officer for the Montgomery Public School system during the ongoing state intervention. Taylor, the CFO in the Huntsville system at the time, signed a … Continued

By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY— Joseph S. Ammons, General Counsel for the Alabama Department Of Labor, sent an email just before noon on Tuesday to other agency lawyers expressing concern over the State’s failure to pay AlaCourt. He also requested to know if other departments were being required by the Finance Department to … Continued