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Beware, Alabama: List says state is among most disaster-prone by AnnistonStar
Mar 29, 2011 | 
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The website that two years ago declared Huntsville the nation's best city brought some less enthralling news Monday.
Based on the past 10 years in which the state has been ravaged by hurricanes and tornadoes, Alabama has been named the nation's seventh most-at-risk state for disasters.
Re... | 4 |
Forever Wild extension to be considered in Alabama Senate committee hearing by AnnistonStar
Mar 29, 2011 |
A bill that would extend the life of Forever Wild, Alabama's land acquisition and preservation program, will be the subject of a Senate committee hearing Thursday in Montgomery.
The hearing was requested by the Alabama Farmers Federation, or Alfa, which is arguing against the reauthorizatio... | 4 |
Alabama prison bills may save state $106 million over 5 years by AnnistonStar
Mar 28, 2011 |
A broad package of sentencing and corrections reform bills aims to reduce the state prison population, then use the savings to bolster supervision of convicted felons and improve public safety, said Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb.
"It's the theory of reinvestment," Cobb said. You invest the sa... | 3 |
Cuts in corporate tax loopholes could save Alabama tens of millions, Gov. Robert Bentley's office says by AnnistonStar
Mar 28, 2011 |
Gov. Robert Bentley within a few days will unveil plans that could raise tens of millions of dollars a year for state budgets by closing corporate tax loopholes, state Finance Director David Perry said.
Perry declined to give specifics on which loopholes could be closed, but said they involv... | 4 |
Regions moves to 14th largest American bank by AnnistonStar
Mar 25, 2011 |
Regions Financial Group is now the 14th largest bank in the United States by assets, according to SNL Financial, a financial analysis firm based in Charlottesville, Va. The Birmingham-based owner of Regions Bank moved up one spot on the list, displacing Citizens Financial Group, a Rhode Island-b... | 8 |
Etowah County has chance at emergency food, shelter funding by AnnistonStar
Mar 25, 2011 |
Etowah County has the opportunity to receive funding from the Emergency Food and Shelter National Board to supplement emergency food and shelter programs in the area. Funding is neither currently available, nor guaranteed. The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s fiscal year appropriation h... | 6 |
Alabama House challenge to federal health care reform law 4 votes short of passage by AnnistonStar
Mar 25, 2011 |
The state House of Representatives today did not pass a plan that supporters say could be used in federal court to challenge the health care overhaul law passed by Congress and signed by President Obama a year ago.
The House voted 59-28 for the plan, four votes short of the 63 votes needed... | 5 |
Three fire departments battle blaze in St. Clair County by AnnistonStar
Mar 24, 2011 |
It took three fire departments to extinguish a blaze that completely destroyed a home on Logan Martin Dam Road early Wednesday morning. “We were called out to mutual aid to New London just after 1 a.m.,” Pell City Fire Chief Patrick Draper said. “We sent one engine, and Wolf Creek (Volunteer Fi... | 5 |
Public services in Alabama face cuts in Gov. Bentley's budget plan by AnnistonStar
Mar 24, 2011 |
Public services from restaurant inspections to outpatient care at mental health centers face cuts if Gov. Robert Bentley's spending plans for the state General Fund take effect, state officials warned lawmakers at a hearing Wednesday.
Leaders of state courts and agencies also warned that hundr... | 6 |
Personal income in Alabama grows slightly faster than the nation by AnnistonStar
Mar 24, 2011 |
Personal income in Alabama grew slightly faster than it did across the nation in 2010, as both the state and the nation rebounded from 2009's recession-driven dip. But government transfers added more to the total than workplace earnings in Alabama, signaling that the state's private sector expan... | 4 | Follow Us
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Gov. Bentley, Sen. Shelby and President Obama in Tuscaloosa in 2011
President Obama and Gov. Bentley in Tuscaloosa in 2011
Teddy Grogan shows a photo of him 33 years ago. The photo is hanging on a wall at the Masonic Lodge 97 in Piedmont. Photo: Anita Kilgore/The Jacksonville News
