Our Opinions
New prison delayed
      Among the items that died in the last legislative session was one for further studies for a new prison to replace the worn-out Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka. The Alabama Department of Corrections had already started the process of reviewing sites for a new women's prison and a locat...
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What Others Say
Another tax holiday
      Remember Alabama's first sales-tax holiday last year? Well, it's coming again. This year the designated weekend is Aug. 3-5, and the same rules as in 2006 will apply. The holiday is granted by the state, but local taxing authorities can opt out, if they wish. So far, few have.
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Editor's Notes
Breaking out of the gilded cage
Jim Cox
      In Washington, D. C. last week to cover and help promote efforts to four-lane U.S. Highway 84, I got in a bit of sightseeing as well and showed my daughter Maggie some of the best parts of our nation's beautiful capital.
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Inside the Statehouse
Beating out Louisiana
Steve Flowers
      It seems like the saying, "thank God for Mississippi," has been around most of my life. This adage referred to our perennial status on most economic barometers and rankings as 49th but Mississippi was always last or 50th.
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Congress Reports
Lots of good news
Jo Bonner
      Last week, President Bush and the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) announced that this year's federal budget deficit will be nearly $40 billion lower than originally projected. This means the deficit is less than half of what it was just three years ago, and it happened without ...
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View from Montgomery
A good advocate
Bob Martin
      Birmingham attorney Lenora Pate has a resume that would wow just about anybody. Besides being a top-rated lawyer in the areas of health and physician oriented law, business law, governmental/public policy areas, and real estate/health care development, she served in Gov. Jim Folsom Jr.
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