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“We can no longer act as if we are operating under normal conditions. We are faced with an abnormal situation that none of us has seen before," Alabama Senate Minority Leader Bobby Singleton said.

Alabama has partially reopened the state’s economy after a COVID-19 shutdown. How has that worked out? Bluntly, re-opening Alabama’s economy has not worked out well and may become disastrous. Our lack of leadership, of planning and of resolve to do what is right has left us with too many sick, too many dead, and too … Continued

Things are not better.  COVID-19 has not slowed its spread throughout the state of Alabama. It is not easing. Numbers are not down. In fact, more new cases were reported a couple of days last week than ever before.  From what I can tell, not a single benchmark set by the Trump White House has … Continued

The Alabama Department of Environmental Management and the Alabama  Department of Public Health issued a joint statement today urging businesses that are reopening after the easing of coronavirus restrictions to thoroughly flush and inspect their water and air conditioning systems to avoid creating other potentially deadly health hazards – Legionnaires’disease and other bacterial infections. Legionnaires’ … Continued

I’ve been spending many hours a day grading college papers. Final grades are due Monday, and I’ve still got a pile to plow through. All of my “tests” are essays. So I’ve got to read them closely. It can take 15 minutes to a half-hour on one paper. The manual labor of teaching. If I … Continued

Where are the tests?  Save your rhetoric. Save your excuses. Save your ridiculous blaming of some other country.  And tell us where the tests are.  Because we were supposed to have them long ago. Enough tests for “anyone that needs a test gets a test.”  Remember that whopper from the reality-show-racist y’all decided to let … Continued

I am tired of sitting at home.  I miss sports. I miss going out to eat — there might not be enough salsa at the Mexican restaurants when this coronavirus quarantine is over. And I miss just doing normal things.  But I don’t miss them enough that I’m OK with large numbers of people dying … Continued

By State Auditor Jim Zeigler News commentators have been saying that the input of FBI Director James Comey into the presidential campaign is unprecedented. The fact is, FBI presidential campaign interference happened once before – big time. It was 1948. I remember it well. Harry Truman had been Vice-President and became President at the death … Continued