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Steve Flowers

Koch brothers’ influence monumental

There have been monumental budget battles in Washington and Montgomery this year. The big difference is that the State of Alabama has a constitutional requirement ... Read more

by Steve Flowers, Wednesday, October 21, 2015 12:00 am

Steve Flowers

Who’d run for Senate? Anybody who’d won 4-H contest

Many of you liked last week’s column detailing our Senior Senator Richard Shelby’s ascent to the U.S. Senate in 1986. Sen. Shelby has represented us ... Read more

by Steve Flowers, Wednesday, October 14, 2015 12:39 am

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Denton’s arrogance helped elect Shelby

In 1986 Richard Shelby was a 50-year-old congressman from Tuscaloosa. He was elected to congress eight years earlier, after two successful four-year terms in the ... Read more

by Steve Flowers, Wednesday, October 7, 2015 12:00 am

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Flowers: Some agencies cut to bone

The State of Alabama fiscal year begins this week and we finally have a budget for the year. Constitutionally, the only mandatory requirement that the ... Read more

by Steve Flowers, Wednesday, September 30, 2015 12:00 am

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Bennett, Head left marks on state

When Jim Bennett left the secretary of state’s office earlier this year, he set the record for the longest serving secretary of state in the ... Read more

by Steve Flowers, Wednesday, September 16, 2015 12:12 am

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Alabama’s just one big front porch

Shelby County, Ala., sits in the geographic center of the state and is the birthplace and childhood home of Gov. Robert Bentley. It is also ... Read more

by Steve Flowers, Wednesday, September 9, 2015 12:00 am

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Wallace caricature explains attitude

It is common knowledge that the Indian casinos in Alabama and throughout the country are granted federal sovereignty and are not subject to state intervention ... Read more

by Steve Flowers, Wednesday, September 2, 2015 12:30 am

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They were giants in Alabama business

Last week we discussed the legendary story of Aflac. Three more remarkable business success stories are just as magnificent. Again, all three of these companies ... Read more

by Steve Flowers, Wednesday, August 19, 2015 12:04 am

Steve Flowers

Before the duck, there were brothers

There is a very iconic company founded in Alabama that has made state, southern, national and international history. It is an insurance corporation known as ... Read more

by Steve Flowers, Tuesday, August 11, 2015 10:47 pm

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State’s budget woes not worst

During the press conference three weeks ago announcing the historic BP settlement and windfall for the state, Gov. Bentley repeatedly said, “The $55 million a ... Read more

by Steve Flowers, Wednesday, July 29, 2015 12:28 am

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