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The 2012 regular session of the Alabama legislature is less than a week old and Montgomery is already at odds over what’s perhaps the most important piece of legislation -- the state budgets. Republican Governor Robert Bentley outlined his plans Tuesday, but just a day later Republican legislative leaders said the governor’s budgets were dead on arrival. We hear about that and other legislative matters from Don Dailey, co-host of Alabama Public Television’s Capitol Journal.
The Los Angeles Times called Birmingham author Gin Phillips's first book The Well and The Mine an "astonishing new novel." It's been compared to To Kill a Mockingbird and earned Phillips the Barnes and Noble Discover Award. So when Phillips started shopping her next novel, Come In and Cover Me", she admits there was a bit of pressure. Come In and Cover Me follows the story of Ren Taylor -- an archeologist who's on a mission to understand an ancient community, but ends up discovering some things about herself.
If you're running errands this weekend, possibly doing some grocery shopping, you may run across some very young, but very persistent sales people. Funny Lady Francesca Rosko prefers to call them terrorists...
It's day three of the 2012 legislative session and bills are starting to fly through House committees in Montgomery. The governor promises more investment in workforce development, the consolidation of state agencies, and charter schools for Alabama. John Archibald helps us sort through the promises.
Alabama faces a potential $400 million shortfall in the general fund budget this year. And that could leave the state’s already-strapped prison system at a tipping point -- so overcrowded Alabama could face the possibility of a federal lawsuit. As WBHM’s Andrew Yeager reports lawmakers are searching for ways to fix a system bursting at the seams.
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