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APCO adjusting rates in January
By BETH THOMASSpecial to Atmore News Our customers expect us to deliver reliable and resilient energy 24/7, 365 days a year. In order to best serve our customers, we must prepare for the future.As a result, customers will see an adjustment on January 2023 bills driven primarily by compliance with federal requirements as well as unprecedented inflation and economic conditions. These federal mandates and regulations, with which the company and…
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Merry Christmas
Congressman Jerry Carl The House is back in session this week wrapping up a few last-minute items before we adjourn for the year. This Congress has been a challenge fighting back against Democrats in Congress and the Biden administration, but I’m proud of the work we’ve accomplished for south Alabama.Over the course of the last few years, I’ve held public town halls in virtually every community in our district. If…
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Securing our national defense
Congressman Jerry Carl Every year for the past 60-something years, Congress has passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which lays out our nation’s defense priorities for the upcoming year. I’ve written before about how important the NDAA is both for our district and for the United States as a whole.Last week, the House passed the final version of the Fiscal Year 2023 NDAA. It now heads back to the…
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Big Tech’s massive overstep
Congressman Jerry Carl Like many of you, I was not shocked by the release of the Twitter Files over the weekend. If you are unfamiliar with what the Twitter Files are, they simply proved what we’ve all known to be true: Big Tech censored stories during the 2020 presidential election, including the truth about the Hunter Biden laptop story.We learned in real-time how Twitter executives colluded to keep millions of…
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The Lame Duck Congress returns
Congressman Jerry Carl The House is back in session this week after a brief pause for Thanksgiving. We are in session for the next three weeks and have a few big things to accomplish, but I fully expect House Democrats to do all they can to ram through more junk in this lame duck session since they have officially lost their majority and will no longer be in total control…
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