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GOP Senator: Millionaires Deserve The Tax Breaks Because Poor People "Create Nothing"
ShareBlue Media - Wed Nov 1, 2017
The Republican tax scheme to give handouts to billionaires and corporations at the expense of millions of working families is increasingly unpopular - so much so that the GOP delayed the release of their draft bill. More»

Don't Worry About New Alabama Mad Cow, Says CDC, but Facts Suggest Otherwise
Alternet - Tue Jul 25, 2017
Government agencies protect big agriculture at the expense of our health. More»

Mad Cow Disease Detected In Alabama
KUNC - Tue Jul 18, 2017
US Department of Agriculture scientists confirmed Tuesday that an 11-year-old cow found in an Alabama livestock market suffered from the neurologic cattle disease, formally called bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). More»

Children Now Face Fines & Arrest If They Don't Get a Permit to Mow Grass
Free Thought Project - Thu Jun 1, 2017
In the Land of the Free, it is now illegal to mow grass from extra money during the summer time, unless you pay the right state official for the privilege of working. More»

Alabama Governor Bentley Smiles for Mugshot, Booked Into Jail on Multiple Charges
WKRG-TV - Mon Apr 10, 2017
MONTGOMERY, Alabama - Robert Julian Bentley has been booked into the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office amid his resignation as Alabama Governor. More»

Jeff Sessions Was Deemed Too Racist To Be A Federal Judge. He'll Now Be Trump's Attorney General
Huffington Post - Thu Nov 17, 2016
WASHINGTON - The man who President-elect Donald Trump will nominate as the 84th attorney general of the United States was once rejected as a federal judge over allegations he called a black attorney "boy," suggested a white lawyer working for black clients was a race traitor, joked that the only issue he had with the Ku Klux Klan was their drug use, and referred to civil rights groups as "un-American" organizations trying to "force civil rights down the throats of people who were trying to put problems behind them. More»

Cable News Silent as Two States Declare Emergency After Pipeline Spill
US Uncut - Thu Sep 15, 2016
More than a quarter million gallons of gasoline have spilled in Shelby County, Alabama, after a major fuel pipeline ruptured this week. More»

Bible-thumping Alabama governor expelled from church after racy phone calls go public
Raw Story - Mon Mar 28, 2016
The Republican governor of Alabama is no longer a member of his church, where he was once a deacon, after admitting to inappropriate sexual conversations with a top staffer. More»

Alabama puts stickers in biology textbooks telling students to question 'unproven' evolution
Raw Story - Thu Sep 17, 2015
This week, Alabama made headlines for revising its state science education standards. More»

Alabama Jailers Let Prisoners Die From Easily Treatable Illnesses to Save Money
AlterNet - Mon Oct 20, 2014
Three lawsuits recently filed in federal court accuse the state of Alabama of denying prisoners with easily treatable illnesses or injuries proper medical care resulting in the prisoner's death. More»

Diabetic High School Girl Beaten by Police Officer and Arrested -- For Falling Asleep in Class
AlterNet - Tue May 7, 2013
A student who was arrested and beaten for falling asleep at school is now suing an Alabama city, its police department and some school employees for civil rights violation, battery and negligent supervision and hiring. More»

Alabama brings back slavery for Latinos
The Guardian, UK - Wed Oct 12, 2011
Here's how: pass a draconian immigration law, lock up "illegals" in private prisons, then get the new inmates to work in the fields. More»

Farmers complain about rotting crops but Sen. Scott Beason says no to immigration law changes
Associated Press - Tue Oct 4, 2011
STEELE, Alabama - A sponsor of Alabama's tough new immigration law told desperate tomato farmers Monday that he won't change the law, even though they told him that their crops are rotting in the field and they are at risk of losing their farms. More»

Journal Editor Resigns Over Problematic Climate Paper
BBC - Thu Sep 1, 2011
The editor of a science journal has resigned after admitting that a recent paper casting doubt on man-made climate change should not have been published. More»

Volunteers ready but left out of spill cleanup
Associated Press - Fri Jul 2, 2010
NEW ORLEANS - BP and the Obama administration face mounting complaints that they are ignoring foreign offers of equipment and making little use of the fishing boats and volunteers available to help clean up what may now be the biggest spill ever in the Gulf of Mexico. More»

Cleaning oil-soaked wetlands may be impossible
Associated Press - Sat May 22, 2010
NEW ORLEANS - The gooey oil washing into the maze of marshes along the Gulf Coast could prove impossible to remove, leaving a toxic stew lethal to fish and wildlife, government officials and independent scientists said. More»

Lettuce Recall due to E.Coli - FDA investigating
Associated Press - Thu May 6, 2010
WASHINGTON - A food company is recalling lettuce sold in 23 states and the District of Columbia because of an E. coli outbreak that has sickened at least 19 people, three of them with life-threatening symptoms. More»

Toddler among 6 killed as storms pound Southeast
Associated Press - Sun Sep 20, 2009
ATLANTA - A two-year-old Georgia boy swept from his father's arms Monday was among six people killed by storms pounding the Southeast, and more rain was expected after the historic dumping that also forced drivers to scramble onto the roofs of cars on Atlanta's main artery. More»

Sheriff jailed for pocketing money meant for inmate meals
CNN - Thu Jan 8, 2009
ALABAMA - A federal judge ordered a north Alabama sheriff jailed this week, saying the lawman intentionally served jail inmates "woefully insufficient" meals in order to pocket more than $200,000. More»

UFO Sighting In Decatur, Alabama
WSFA-TV - Sun May 25, 2008
What was it last night around Decatur that had people talking? Friday night and into today, our newsroom has been flooded with people inquiring about a strange sighting in the western sky. More»

Calf from Alabama 'mad cow' being tested
CNN - Thu Mar 16, 2006
One of at least two calves born to an Alabama cow with mad cow disease will be tested for evidence of the fatal, brain-wasting disease, the state's agriculture commissioner said Friday. More»

Barbara Bush: Hurricane 'working well' for refugees
Daily Mail - Tue Sep 6, 2005
Former First Lady Barbara Bush has come under fire from hundreds of homeless Hurricane Katrina evacuees who lost everything. More»

Alabama Bill Targets Gay Authors
CBS - Mon Apr 25, 2005
A college production tells the story of Matthew Sheppard, a student beaten to death because he was gay. More»

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