During my ten years on the bench, I often heard cases of children who had been abused, abandoned, or neglected; it was my job to enforce state laws to deal with the mistreatment of children and to provide resources to the children and their families....
Starting Tuesday, October 1st, the federal government is changing the formula that it uses to reimburse hospitals and other medical providers for healthcare services provided to Medicare patients. The change in the formula, known as the Medicare Wage Index, will potentially help rural hospitals receive...
Americans are speaking up after the Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi announced an official impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. A CBS/YouGov poll found that 55% of Americans polled support the impeachment Inquiry. On 09/18/2109, news of President Trump’s phone call with...
Sadly, the Alabama Republican Party thinks that the president extorting Ukraine for his own personal gain, and engaging in an unprecedented cover-up, is a crisis that can be twisted into a massive fundraising effort.
U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-Ala.) took to the Senate floor this evening to express his concern about the recent allegations that have come to light involving the President of the United States and the President of Ukraine. He also called on his colleagues to do...
On Tuesday, September 24th, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi announced that the House Representatives would launch a formal inquiry of impeachment into the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump. It had been reported earlier that an anonymous whistleblower complaint had been...
The Alabama Farmers Federation’s Political Action Committee, FarmPAC, today announced endorsements for the March 2020 primary elections. More than 100 Federation leaders including representatives from all 67 counties gathered in Montgomery to hear from candidates and make endorsement recommendations. Federation President Jimmy Parnell said the...
Humorist Will Rogers famously said, “I’m not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.” That quote may have never been more apropos than in the discussion of the current state of the Alabama Democratic Party. To review: the state Chair and...
If the tariff policies of President Donald Trump are about protecting American jobs and promoting American businesses and products, then the tariff proposal by the administration that was recently approved by the World Trade Organization on the European Union provides the Federal Government the perfect...
We often hear from politicians and pundits that infrastructure is the only true bipartisan issue. Fair enough – we all rely on roads, bridges, sewer systems. But if the definition of a bipartisan issue is one upon which we all rely, how on earth did...