Steve Flowers

I have a cadre of political friends around the state with whom I love to visit and talk politics. We regale stories of old campaigns and reminisce abo...

You know the results of Tuesday’s primary election and I do not because this column had to be published before the voting. However, my prediction is t...

We are less than one week away from the primary. That is singular for one primary. We are now a one party state when it comes to statewide politics. T...

As the 2012 Legislative Session evolves, I am reminded of my days as a legislative page during the early 1960s. George Wallace was governor and the Ca...

Our legislative branch of government is the recipient of many slings and arrows. They, along with members of Congress, are generally at the bottom of ...

Most political observers were shocked and somewhat in awe when State Senator Scott Beason chose to challenge veteran congressman Spencer Bachus in a R...

The 2012 Regular Session of the Legislature begins this week. The Republican majority House and Senate produced a prolific amount of conservative legi...

Believe it or not the 2012 election season is upon us. The legislature, in a cost-savings measure last year, moved our primaries up to March 13. Our p...

The second round of the gambling corruption trial begins this Monday in Federal Court in Montgomery. Last year’s first trial ended in a victory for al...

Last week I discussed the inordinate power that Black Belt senators wielded in the legislature during most of the past century.