Today is the 54th anniversary celebration of the Bridge Crossing Jubilee in Selma. A lot of big political figures will be there to give speeches and you can watch the events live HERE. Here is your Daily News for March 3, 2019. 1. Congress members take civil rights pilgrimage Today activists, lawmakers and big name...
By CAROLINE BECK, Alabama Daily News Senator Doug Jones, D-AL, is sponsoring a bill that would incentivize states like Alabama to expand Medicaid. The States Achieve Medicaid Expansion (SAME) Act would provide states that choose to expand Medicaid after 2014 the same level of federal matching funds as states that expanded earlier under the terms...
Here is your Daily News for February 24, 2019. 1. GOP votes on gas tax The Alabama Republican Party held elections yesterday and voted to re-elect Terry Lathan from Mobile as chairwoman. They also voted to formally oppose raising the state’s gas tax, even without the caveat about decreasing other taxes. That resolution brought by...
BY CAROLINE BECK, Alabama Daily News MONTGOMERY, Ala. – State Rep. John Rogers, D-Birmingham, said Thursday he would try to kill a police body camera bill that lists him as a co-sponsor. “People have a right to see this police footage so this bill would be violating people’s First Amendment rights,” Rogers told Alabama Daily...
Following the shooting death of a man at Riverchase Galleria in Hoover last year, Rep. Juandalynn Givan, D-Birmingham, says Alabama needs a process for families to obtain body camera and dash camera videos from law enforcement.
Here is your Daily News for February 17, 2019. 1. New FEMA Director Prattville native Jeff Byard has been nominated by President Trump to head the Federal Emergency Management Agency after it’s former director, Brock Long, resigned earlier this week. Byard has held several positions with the Alabama Emergency Management Agency before he joined FEMA...
By CAROLINE BECK, Alabama Daily News Rep. Chip Brown, R-Mobile, is the new Republican representative from House District 105. Brown has been involved in politics almost his entire life and even worked in the Legislature on staff, but this is his first elected position. Brown said he’s a long-time member of the Alabama Republican party....
Even as a new member of the Legislature, Kiel was able to gain influential committee assignments, including the House Insurance Committee, the State Government Committee, and the Ways and Means Education Committee. Kiel told Alabama Daily News that since he has three children in Alabama schools and his wife and parents are educators, education issues are one of his top priorities.
Here is your Daily News for February 10, 2019. 1. AL Prison Suicide Crisis Gov. Kay Ivey is expected to announce a proposal soon to replace state prisons, possibly leasing facilities built by private firms. But the Southern Poverty Law Center, locked in a court battle with the state over prison mental health deficiencies, is not...
A new bill sponsored by Rep. Connie Rowe, R-Jasper, would give a deadline of three business days for sheriffs to issue or reinstate a concealed carry pistol permit after a successful appeal in district court.