Lobbyist Hunters Snakes In Capitol Face Fewer Bills
Tuskaloosa AP lobbyist Steven Bradley notes fewer so called snakes this session than last year with about two dozen bills on watch. He explains lobbyists serve many groups, provide quick bill reads and present both sides while fearing missed legislation. Bradley defends the profession as public service amid frequent criticism.
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Tommy Stevenson
Tuscaloosa
Associated Press
Ala
Montgomery
Steven Bradley
Capitol
Hunter Bradley
Alabama Press Association
APA
Bradley
Mobile judge deputizes jurors in courthouse breakout
In Mobile Alabama Circuit Judge Elwood Hogan deputized five jurors to form a backup force after a knife attack by three inmates sparked a courthouse breakout attempt. Deputy Gafford Borden was knocked against a wall as inmates armed with knives clashed with staff. Nathaniel Young, recently convicted of first degree murder, helped initiate the escape bid before officers recaptured the fugitives.
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Mobile
Ala
Elwood Hogan
Hogan
Gafford Borden
Balus Kelley
Ronnie Shepherd
Charles Fromby
Nathaniel Young
Baxley Accuses Hooper of Ethics Violations
In Montgomery, ALA, Attorney General Baxley accuses Circuit Judge Perry Hooper of ethics violations for ruling the 1975 state ethics law invalid while Hooper and plaintiff Ollie Delchamps Jr. sought Republican National Convention delegates. The state appeals, arguing possible political bias, with oral arguments set for Monday.
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Baxley
Hooper
Montgomery
Ala
Bill Baxley
Perry Hooper
State Supreme Court
Attorney General's Office
Supreme Court
Ollie Delchamps Jr
Mobile
Ford
Kissinger’s Role in Nixon White House Emerges
The article recalls Henry Kissinger as a key, though sometimes disruptive, figure in Nixon’s administration. It notes his daily 8:15 Roosevelt Room meetings, his pivotal briefings on Cambodia, and Nixon’s selective credit for decisions against a backdrop of Kissinger’s staff influence. It also recounts Nixon’s “Order of the True Blue Heart” gesture after the Cambodian operation.
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Soviet Union
Nixon
Kissinger
Roosevelt
White House
Henry
CIA
Nixon White House
William Rogers
Henry Kissinger
Rogers
Key Biscayne
Washington
Air Force
John Ehrlichman
Bebe Rebozo
Order of the True Blue Heart
Morgan County officers confiscate 150 marijuana plants in Oak Ridge
Sheriff Van Ward and two city detectives exposed a six by six foot bed near Oak Ridge west of Flint Creek containing 150 plus small marijuana plants four to six inches tall. The plants, on private property, were to be transplanted. no arrests. Earlier in Decatur, eight plants were pulled from a vacant lot, bringing summer confiscations to 260. Detectives Tallent and Steenson said they may expand into remote areas by motorcycle and jeep, possibly horseback. In other news, a rock shattered a truck windshield on Old River Road I 65 overpass. no injuries. The damaged unit belonged to Bailey Parks and Aubrey. Air conditioner units were damaged, totaling $900 in losses, as three thefts of air conditioners occurred in Decatur this week.
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Morgan County
van Ward
U.S. 31
Jep Tallent
James Steenson
Oak Ridge
Flint Creek
Tallent
Steenson
Decatur
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