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It’s Time to Move the Alabama State Capital to Birmingham

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson – The ghosts of Jefferson Davis and George Wallace must live in the old capitol building in Montgomery. How else to explain why the fundamentalist Christian Republicans who somehow control all three branches of the state government still in the most retrograde state in the Union managed to…

Oh, Alabama: Testing the Courts on Abortion Again

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Guest Column – By Deanna Kell – In case you’ve been living in a news bubble and didn’t hear about it already, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed into law the most restrictive abortion bill in the country on Wednesday, a near-total ban on all abortions, after the so-called the State of the Human Life Protection…