Alabama has blocked more than $5 billion in unemployment fraud since start of pandemic; James stakes out culture issues in mulling another run for governor; Dubose challenges Drake in HD45; Patrice 'Penni' McClammy plans to run for her late father's House seat; House panel rejects drug pricing plan in setback to Biden
He criticized newly passed Alabama legislation that allowed students to do yoga in schools. "They took prayer out of schools and then they put in this Trojan horse called yoga," he said, noting its ties to Hinduism.
Montgomery attorney Patrice “Penni” McClammy, daughter of former Alabama House Representative Thad McClammy, on Wednesday said she plans to seek her late father’s seat.
Retired banker Susan DuBose is running for the Republican nomination for House District 45, entering the race against incumbent Republican Rep. Dickie Drake.
The Biden administration began notifying governors and state refugee coordinators across the country about how many Afghan evacuees from among the first group of nearly 37,000 arrivals are slated to be resettled in their states.
A House committee dealt an ominous if tentative blow Wednesday to President Joe Biden's huge social and environment package, derailing a money-saving plan to let Medicare negotiate the price it pays for prescription drugs.
In last week's edition of Inside Alabama Politics, we speculated on the likelihood of businessman Tim James and former U.S. Ambassador Lynda Blanchard running in the GOP primary against Gov. Kay Ivey.
More than $5 billion of unemployment benefits has been blocked from being sent out in Alabama due to concerns of fraud during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Alabama Department of Labor.
There are 77 members of the House GOP Caucus, meaning if Clouse's estimation holds up, legislative leaders are already approaching the majority needed to pass the bill in the 104-member House.
The governor's campaign responded with a statement calling that a "nonsense excuse." It added that Facebook first said it was unpublishing the page because of "harassment and bullying" and the campaign fought to get it restored.
Milley went so far as to promise Li that he would warn his counterpart in the event of a U.S. attack, according to the book "Peril," written by Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the book. Details from the book, which is set to be released next week, were first reported by The Washington Post on Tuesday.
House Democrats on Tuesday began the serious work of trying to implement President Joe Biden's expansive spending plan, but getting there will require remarkable legislative nimbleness, since Biden has said the revenue to pay for it must come only from Americans who earn more than $400,000 a year.
About 40% of Alabama resident students are undecided about where they may go post-graduation. And 48% of the “maybes” are getting STEM-related degrees. Alabama leaders want very much to keep those students here as they’re critical to the economy’s growth.
"Due to COVID-19, CRMC emergency staff contacted 43 hospitals in three states in search of a cardiac ICU bed and finally located one in Meridian, MS," his obituary read, referencing Cullman Regional Medical Center. "He would not want any other family to go through what his did."
In most states, minors need the consent of their parents in order to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Navigating family politics in cases of differing views has been a challenge for students and organizers of outreach campaigns, who have faced blowback for directly targeting young people.
