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Boeing’s Minuteman III ICBM’s near 50 years in service

For nearly 50 years, men and women have worked in underground bunkers, watching over the missiles that have acted as a deterrent to attacks on the U.S. since the time before there was an Internet, before cell phones or fax machines.  The Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile system began its watch in 1962 and is still … Continued
August 22, 2019
The Voice of Alabama Politics

The week on “The Voice of Alabama Politics”

Coming up next on The Voice of Alabama Politics this Sunday: Bill and the V-Team take a look at economic development updates throughout Alabama, dark days for women in the state, climate change and much more. Tune in on Sunday, June 9. ABC 33/40 11:30 a.m. Sunday WDHN Dothan 10 p.m. Saturday Mobile WALA FOX 9 … Continued
July 6, 2019

Foster care and adoptions are not solutions to abortion

Yesterday, the Alabama House passed HB314, a bill that would criminalize abortion in Alabama. While the legislation will be tied up in federal courts for years if it is passed, what would happen if these legislators had their way and abortion was fully banned in Alabama? Not only would women and families suffer, but so … Continued
May 2, 2019

We should be building great schools, not great prisons

Earlier this month, the governor announced her plan to spend almost a billion dollars of taxpayer money to build three new prisons for men (there will be no new prisons for women, even though it was the conditions at the women’s prison in Elmore County that started the whole prison debate). There’s no question that … Continued
February 27, 2019

Alabama leads the way with women in governmental leadership

There has been a lot of talk about the advancement of women in politics over the past year. It has been suggested that more progressive states have led the way with this change. Alabama can very well make the case that we lead the nation in women taking leadership roles in our state. It is … Continued
February 20, 2019

Marsh tells GOP club he is “looking seriously” at running for U.S. Senate in 2020

Saturday, the Mid Alabama Republican Club met for their regularly scheduled meeting at the Vestavia Hills Public Library. Senate President Pro Tempore Del Marsh, R-Anniston, and House Majority Leader Nathaniel Ledbetter, R-Rainsville, gave a preview of the upcoming 2019 legislative session. Marsh announced that he is “looking seriously” at running for U.S. Senator in 2020. … Continued
February 12, 2019

Sexual misconduct allegations at Department of Corrections kept from public by bureaucracy

A top official at the Alabama Department of Corrections was allowed to retire quietly after reportedly confessing to inappropriate sexual relations with multiple women in his chain of command. Grantt D. Culliver, Associate Commissioner with the Alabama Department of Corrections, retired effective Nov. 30, 2018, with his full state pension and a check for approximately … Continued
January 7, 2019

We don’t matter, because we don’t want to

I generally don’t make New Year’s resolutions. I have a few times, but not too often. The last New Year’s resolution I made was in 2012, about this time of the year, just before the world became 2013. I had just seen Les Miserables, the big-budget movie musical, and I loved it. I’ve seen the … Continued
December 28, 2018

Three things. Three ugly things

Three events that should worry us this week: HOOVER SHOOTING Transparent. That’s a pretty clear term for most of us. A dictionary definition is equally transparent: “Open, frank, candid.” But to many (most?) governments, “transparent” is just a word. Hoover officials have been vowing transparency since they learned that 21-year-old Emantic Bradford Jr. was not … Continued
November 29, 2018