A proposed administrative rule would prevent Alabama Ethics Commission members from discussing or receiving information about matters before them outside of official settings.
Author: Mary Sell (Mary Sell)
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State unemployment hits record low – again
Alabama hit another record-low unemployment rate of 2.8% in October, down from 3% in September and 3.8% in October 2018.
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Citing age restriction, Crowell will not be next Montgomery Probate Judge
By MARY SELL, Alabama Daily News Retired Air Force Gen. Ed Crowell will not be the next Montgomery County Probate Judge. Gov. Kay Ivey announced Crowell’s appointment Wednesday evening. But on Thursday her office told Alabama Daily News that Crowell cannot accept the appointment because of his age. Alabama’s constitution prohibits the election or appointment...
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Ivey, agency leaders to meet on future of parolee job-training facility
Gov. Kay Ivey and several state agency leaders will be meeting soon to discuss the future of the LifeTech Transition Center, a residential parolee education program in Thomasville.
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‘Stinging’ from BP settlement split, lawmaker files oil revenue bill
Sen. Chris Elliott, R-Fairhope, said his area is still “stinging” from the way the state’s BP settlement money was distributed in 2016.
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Report: 26% of Alabama children still live in poverty
Twenty-six percent of Alabama children, 282,396 of them, live in poverty and about half of those live in extreme poverty in households where a family of four earns less than $13,000 a year, according to a report out today.
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Possible changes to parolee education facility concern lawmakers
By MARY SELL, Alabama Daily News Some Alabama lawmakers say they’re concerned about possible cuts to a parolee education program that state officials have touted as an example of success. Sen. Cam Ward, R-Alabaster, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, told ADN he’d been informed by Alabama Board of Pardons and Parole staff that a “significant...
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Alabama AG working on Tyson fish kill penalty
The Alabama Attorney General’s office in now involved in the state’s action against Tyson Foods following a June spill in north Alabama waterways.
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Counties want change to 2015 state prison reform they says costs jails money, space
While Alabama’s 2020 legislative session will include prison-sentencing reform efforts, county officials want a change to a 2015 law that they say is putting too many state inmates in their jails and costing them money.
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As state battles opioid addiction, real-time data needed
What began as a prescription drug problem in Alabama, an overprescribing of painkillers, is now largely an illegal drug problem as the state cracks down on prescribing practices.