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Inside the Statehouse
By Steve Flowers Folks, we are getting down to the proverbial lick log in the much-anticipated vote for the open U.S. Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions. After 20 years in the U.S. Senate as our junior U.S. Senator, Sessions left to become Donald Trump’s Attorney General. He probably regrets this decision. When the race began it looked like a Roy Moore vs. Luther Strange race. However, the third outside…
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Great summer reading program at APL
To the editor: The Atmore Public Library’s summer reading program, “Build A Better World” was a great success with a total attendance of 763 children and 347 adults. The Children checked out 2,161 books during the eight-week program. Many of these books were purchased with funds from PCI, Library Partners, City of Atmore, United Fund, and Pepsi. We are very grateful for their support. We could not have such a…
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Cutting through the noise
By Congressman Bradley Byrne There has been a lot of noise coming out of Washington and in the national news media. If you listen to all the noise, you would think the only thing happening in our nation’s capital is staffing drama at the White House and an ongoing Russia investigation. Those topics consume the national headlines day in and day out. Sadly, that narrative does not match the reality…
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Be proactive to avoid being scammed
By Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall It’s sad to say, but news reports of consumer fraud are so common these days that many people simply ignore them. If you’ve already been targeted by consumer fraud, you are not alone. Alabama is ranked number six in the country in the total number of consumer complaints reported to the Federal Trade Commission’s Consumer Sentinel Network during 2016. Our state also ranks among the…
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Inside the Statehouse
By Steve Flowers There is a proven theory espoused by political scholars that has prevailed in southern political history for decades. The premier political scholar, Dr. V. O. Key, first illustrated this repetitious theme that has weaved its way through the southern electorate. He called it “Friends and Neighbors” politics. It is not a complicated hypothesis. It simply means that southerners tend to vote for someone from their neck of…
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