COLUMNS--FEATURE SPOT

Last week, the legislature could have had the opportunity to finally have the debate on the Accountability Act that we didn’t have when the Act was pa...

Once again, the Alabama Legislature is being asked to “fix” a bill that was rushed through without taking the time to think it through or debate it. T...

This past week I called on the Republican Supermajority to once again bring forth the Medicaid Expansion Bill so that we may have an opportunity to vo...

For the past three years state employees, educators and our entire public education system has taken it on the chin. Unfortunately, it seems next year...

By: Rep. Craig Ford We’ve all heard the old saying, “Be careful what you wish for because you just might get it.” It seems that Republicans in the Ala...

It is amazing to read what some legislators have written in the weeks since the state legislature passed the so-called Alabama Accountability Act. The...

The most disturbing thing about how the school Accountability/Flexibility Bill was passed is that Republicans don’t seem to think they have done anyth...

Education issues have been the lead story in the state of Alabama and in Franklin County for the past several weeks. Education is a topic that gets ev...

You would think that if we were going to fundamentally change education in Alabama that you would want the taxpayers, local school boards, parents and...

There has been a lot said over the past two weeks about the tactics used by Republicans in the Alabama legislature to pass the so-called Alabama Accou...