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Data Shows Romney's Unremarkable Record on Jobs as Massachusetts Governor Analysis: Romney Losses Show Conservative Woes Banks Near Mortgage Deal with State Attorneys General Scaled-Back Ethics Measure Moves Toward House Approval A scaled-back ethics bill headed toward likely passage in the House on Thursday despite complaints from senators that Republican leaders had jettisoned several key provisions that won overwhelming Senate support last week. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) unveiled legislation that formally bans lawmakers and staff members from making financial trades based on non-public information they receive in their positions. Rather than holding an open, freewheeling debate, as the Senate did last week, House Republicans have put the ethics legislation on a fast-track schedule that forbids amendments and requires a two-thirds majority for passage. Legislators Send Millions to Groups Connected to Relatives Some members of Congress send tax dollars to companies, colleges and community groups where their spouses, children and parents work as salaried employees, lobbyists or board members, according to an examination of federal disclosure forms and local public records by The Washington Post. Members engaged in behavior that included directly funding programs run by their children, earmarking money to entities represented by their lobbyist relatives and sending tax dollars to colleges where their family members work or serve on boards of trustees. Members of Congress Fund Projects Near Their Properties Video: Mapping Richard Shelby's Earmarks For Battered Immigrants, Fear of Deportation Becomes a Weapon Teresa Gomez, a Salvadoran woman in her 20s, and Margaret Ashong, a grandmother from Ghana, endured regular beatings, threats and insults by the fathers of their children. Like many battered immigrant women in the Washington area, they mostly suffered in silence, fearful that if they went to the police they could lose their right to remain in the United States and their source of economic support. |
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Featured Political Stories, Photos and Videos Consumer Watchdog Makes Appearance in Birmingham Mark Kennedy Rewrites George Wallace's 1963 Inaugural Address In his address to the Alabama Democratic Party Hall of Fame dinner crowd, Judge Mark Kennedy changed the wording of his father-in-law George Wallace's inaugural address from 1963. Alabama Democrats Honor Hall of Famers From Education, Labor College Democrats President Urges Young People to Get Involved Featured Labor Stories, Photos and Videos Anniston Army Depot Workers Rally to Save 1,000 Jobs Locust Fork News-Journal Top Stories and People of 2011 AFL-CIO Report Calls Immigration Law A 'Crisis in Alabama' Labor Heavy Hitters On the Ground in Alabama's Immigration Battle Heavy hitters from American labor are now on the ground taking a special interest in Alabama due to the growing controversy surrounding the state's draconian immigration law. An AFL-CIO sponsored delegation of union leaders actively engaged in the struggle for civil and human rights recently spent a day in Birmingham and Pelham getting a first-hand view of the law's impact by hearing from local community leaders and undocumented workers. Why Working People Vote Against Their Economic Interests Why do working class people in the South so frequently vote against their own economic self-interest? In answering the question a little more than 20 years after his book came out, retired Auburn History professor Wayne Flynt said some things you will never see reported by any newspaper or television news station in Alabama. Al Henley Elected President of the AFL-CIO of Alabama American Unions Have Way More Work to Do to Restore Public Approval Alabama Miners Shut Down Coal Production, 1000 Rally in Birmingham
Daryl Dewberry's army of mine workers from District 20, covering most of the Southeast, packed the house with their signature camouflage T-shirts at the "We Are One" rally at Boutwell Auditorium, moved across the street from Linn Park due to the threat of afternoon thunderstorms. "These colors don't run," Dewberry said to resounding cheers and applause. "A wrong to one is a wrong to all. We stand with you. We're ready to fight and we'll fight with you." The mine workers were joined by the Communication Workers of America Local 3902, which hosted the rally, along with the AFL-CIO, the plumbers and pipefitters of UA Local 91, and all the other unions in the state, including the American Federation of Teachers and the Alabama Education Association. VIDEO: United Mine Workers Shut Down Coal Production Union Workers, Democrats Take A Stand at State House Videos: Alabama Unions Rally at Alabama State House Save the American Dream Rally Held on Capitol Steps The Big Picture: Long Live Organized Labor in America Could the protests for the rights of workers spread around the country and herald a new day for American labor? Featured Environmental Stories, Photo Essays and Videos Standards for Mercury Pollution from Power Plants Unveiled
When the British Petroleum corporation issued a press release announcing that the multinational behemoth would commit $1 billion for Gulf Coast restoration projects, every news organization in the world ran a story about it. But where were the reporters and editors asking the tough questions, such as: Is the $1 billion enough? What is the plan for restoration? What does the company and the government plan to restore? Unanswered Questions Remain on the State of the Gulf Coast Riki Ott Speaks at Orange Beach Public Health Forum Robin Young, Like Thousands on the Gulf, Suffered 'BP Crud' Wherever disaster strikes, there's always an associated crud. There was the Exxon Valdez Crud. The Nine Eleven Crud. The Katrina Cough, and then the TVA coal ash cough. Now, along the entire coast of the Gulf of Mexico, there is the BP Crud, afflicting workers and the general population from Louisiana to Florida. Air Quality Along the Coast Raises Questions Watchdogging BP Video: Oil Giant Restricts Press Access to Alabama Beach BP's Oil Spill Will Have Major Environmental Impacts on the Gulf of Mexico Interior Department Permitted Deep Horizon Without Impact Study Ken Salazar, a former Senator and Attorney General of Colorado, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the 50th Secretary of the Interior on Jan. 20, 2009 by President Barack Obama. Less than three months later, on April 6, 2009, the British Petroleum company was granted a permit for the Deepwater Horizon, the deepest oil well ever dug in the Gulf of Mexico -- without an Environmental Impact Study as required by the National Environmental Policy Act. The Minerals Management Service, an agency of the Department of the Interior charged with regulating the oil and gas industry, has been ensconced in a ethics scandal in recent months for cozying up to the oil and gas industry. The agency granted BP a "categorical exclusion" to NEPA on the basis of three reviews of the area, which concluded that a massive oil spill was "unlikely," according to government documents. Gulf Oil Slick One: A Glynn Wilson Video Featured Nature Stories, Photos and Videos Secret Vistas: A Film About the Lake Chinnabee Campground Click Here or on the Image to Check Out the Archive on the Birds of Alabama
Alabama has been known as the "Yellowhammer State" since the Civil War. The yellowhammer nickname was given to the Confederate soldiers from Alabama when a company of young cavalry soldiers from Huntsville, under the command of Rev. D.C. Kelly, arrived at Hopkinsville, Kentucky, where Gen. Forrest's troops were stationed. The officers and men of the Huntsville company wore fine, new uniforms, whereas the soldiers who had long been on the battlefields were dressed in faded, worn uniforms. On the sleeves, collars and coattails of the new calvary troops were bits of brilliant yellow cloth. As the company rode past Company A, Will Arnett cried out in greeting "Yellowhammer, Yellowhammer, flicker, flicker!" The greeting brought a roar of laughter from the men and from that moment the Huntsville soldiers were spoken of as the "yellowhammer company." The term quickly spread throughout the Confederate Army and all Alabama troops were referred to unofficially as the "Yellowhammers." When the Confederate Veterans in Alabama were organized they took pride in being referred to as the "Yellowhammers" and wore a yellowhammer feather in their caps or lapels during reunions. A bill introduced in the 1927 legislature by Representative Thomas E. Martin, Montgomery County, was passed and approved by Governor Bibb Graves on September 6, 1927, making it the state bird. The tradition extends to the University of Alabama, where the famous Rammer Jammer Yellowhammer cheer has been around for decades. It bas banned in 2003, but students voted overwhelmingly at Homecoming 2005 to bring it back. The Rammer Jammer was an old campus magazine at Alabama, and the yellowhammer is the state bird. |
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