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By Dana Beyerle Times Montgomery Bureau Alabama's seven members of Congress voted against the Democrat-backed national health plan that now goes to the Senate, where it isn't getting a warm reception from Alabama's U.S. senators.
MARION, Ala. - The sign going on the front door at the Perry County courthouse reads: "Closed for the Obama Holiday." The rural, mostly black county has proclaimed Monday as an official holiday celebrating the election of the nation's first black president, Barack Obama.
By Dana Beyerle Montgomery Bureau Chief U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama would vote against the health-care reform bill that was passed by the House on Saturday, but he doesn't expect to get that chance.
MARION, Alabama (AP) — The sign going on the front door at the Perry County courthouse reads: "Closed for the Obama Holiday." The rural, mostly black county has proclaimed Monday as an official holiday celebrating the election of the first black U.S. president, Barack Obama. It's one of Alabama's poorest counties, but it's sparing little during five days of festivities.
18 That's the number of Democratic House members who hold seats won by Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) in 2008 and voted in favor of their party's health care proposal over the weekend. National Republicans moved quickly in the wake of that vote to make poster boys (and girls) of these Members, insisting that this one vote could be their undoing at the ballot box next fall -- ala then Pennsylvania Rep ...
By Dana Beyerle Times Montgomery Bureau Republican gubernatorial candidate Dr. Robert Bentley is campaigning to increase health insurance access and affordability in Alabama while countering federal mandates he objects to philosophically and politically.
"They say people won't walk a mile to vote for you but they'll walk 100 miles to vote against you," said Rep. Parker Griffith, a freshman Democrat who won his Alabama seat with just 52 percent of the vote last year. "Well, people walked 100 miles Tuesday."
The State Department of Public Health has determined the priority groups which will receive the scarce and late-arriving swine flu vaccine in Alabama according to State Health Officer Dr. Don Williamson.
The election may be more than a year off, but you wouldn’t have known it by the turnout at the Alabama Gubernatorial Forum 2010 at Auburn University on Tuesday.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Alabama Attorney General Troy King is running for re-election while feuding with influential Republicans who would normally be his allies, including the top three GOP officeholders in the state.
U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio is an unlikely contender in northwest Florida, a strip of the Bible Belt closer to Alabama than his hometown of Miami.