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City of Clanton receives ALDOT grant for sidewalk extension
By Carey Reeder | Managing Editor The City of Clanton announced on Sept. 30 a massive grant it received through the Alabama Department of Transportation that will go towards extending the sidewalk along U.S. Highway 31. The city was awarded $773,967 in grant funds through ALDOT’s Transportation Alternative Set-aside Program (TAP), and is designed to […] The post City of Clanton receives ALDOT grant for sidewalk extension appeared first on The Clanton Advertiser.
Phil Williams: Push back against the purge
By Phil Williams, 1819 News Commentary The great woke purge of U.S. history continues. In a never-ending series of virtue signals the left erases the past with zealous fervor. The Biden-Harris administration portrayed young troopers wringing their hands at the vast inequity of being assigned to a military post named after someone from 150 years ago […]
Report: Alabama only state with no mothers of school-age children in Legislature
Alabama is the only state whose Legislature has no mothers of school-age children, according to a new report. The New York-based Vote Mama Foundation said in the report that as of February, 7.9% percent of lawmakers were mothers of minors. Alabama is the only state to lack any legislators who are mothers of young children […]
Tuscaloosa’s Fitzgerald Washington Retires As Alabama’s Labor Secretary
Governor Kay Ivey heaped praise on Tuscaloosa native Fitzgerald Washington as he announced his retirement as the state's Labor Secretary, effective on Tuesday. Washington held the position for a record-setting decade after he was first appointed in 2014. “Alabama has achieved all-time low unemployment rates, and we have more people...
Democrat Kelvin Datcher wins race to replace former Alabama Rep. John Rogers
Kelvin Datcher will represent Birmingham in the Alabama State House after winning the third and final race to claim the seat formerly held by John Rogers. Datcher, an aide to Mayor Randall Woodfin, handily defeated Republican challenger Erskine Brown Jr. Datcher earned 1,174 votes to Brown’s 218 votes, according to...
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