God Strikes Limestone Correctional Facility

So I am in Montgomery, escaping the softball-sized hail raining on my hometown, and reading about the storm damage to Limestone Correctional Facility, when I find out about this. It’s from a 2006 NYT Op-Ed: The discouraging outlook for low-performing students is reflected in the high incidence of reading difficulties among the prison population. Some […]

Clay Scofield Explains it All For You

Via Left in Alabama, video of Alabama’s Senator Clay Scofield being interviewed by a Huntsville reporter about his transvaginal ultrasound bill. My favorite part is when he graciously lets women avert their eyes from the screen while the state-mandated ultrasound probe is all up in their ladyparts. Nice of him!

Carol Clarke on Birmingham Sprawl

Carol Clarke, Co-Chair of Norwood Neighborhood Improvement Plan Steering Cimmittee and former Director of Birmingham Economic Development, was at the Alabama Community Leaders Institute at the campus of Alabama A&M in Huntsville on August 27th, 2011. I asked her about the negative effects of sprawl-oriented development. Alabama has no high-occupancy vehicle lanes and very little […]

Alabama Finds a New Low to Reach with HB 56

This week, the Southern Poverty Law Center told Yahoo News about calls on their Alabama hotline reporting denial of food stamps for citizen children of undocumented immigrants. Of course, the denials are probably the result of confusion about the law on the part of state workers: Barry Spear, a spokesman for Alabama’s Department of Human […]

Perry County Commissioner Albert Turner

Perry County Commissioner Albert Turner was at the Alabama Community Leaders Institute at the campus of Alabama A&M in Huntsville on August 26th. He graciously spoke on camera about his county’s coal ash controversy in the context of economic development challenges. Perhaps surprisingly, coal ash is not the biggest source of toxic pollution in Perry […]