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Capital City Free Press: David L. Hudson Jr.: Government surveillance threatens First Amendment freedoms
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Thursday, May 14, 2015. David L. Hudson Jr.: Government surveillance threatens First Amendment freedoms. Mass governmental surveillance impacts First Amendment freedoms in profound ways, chilling speech and even thought. We tend to think of such surveillance under the rubric of the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits the government from engaging in “unreasonable searches and seizures.” But, surveillance also negatively impacts freedom of speech, assembly, association – and even thought. Alleging that the N...
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Capital City Free Press: Hank Sanders: Senate Sketches #1455: An open letter to Governor Robert Bentley on Medicaid expansion
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Friday, May 1, 2015. Hank Sanders: Senate Sketches #1455: An open letter to Governor Robert Bentley on Medicaid expansion. I write this as an open letter because the people of Alabama have a critical stake in your decision. I want Alabamians to fully understand what is at stake, so I am sharing this letter with them as I share it with you. I pray that lives be saved, that pain and suffering be reduced, that peace of mind be increased, that more and better jobs are provided, and that our community institu...
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Capital City Free Press: Craig Ford: Who’s leading the Alabama House of Representatives?
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Monday, May 18, 2015. Craig Ford: Who’s leading the Alabama House of Representatives? Who’s really leading the Alabama House of Representatives? Or maybe the better question is: who is ready to step up and lead? Who’s Leading The Alabama House of Representatives? Every organization needs leaders. An Army needs a general. A team needs a coach. A company needs a president or CEO. In fact, the proposed General Fund budget is the perfect example of how our leadership in the House has fallen apart. The leader...
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Capital City Free Press: Charles C. Haynes: Tattooed Jesus, yoga and the debate over school endorsement of religion
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015. Charles C. Haynes: Tattooed Jesus, yoga and the debate over school endorsement of religion. Legal battles over when and where to draw the church-state line on school endorsement of religion can be a nightmare for administrators, a headache for judges and a payday for lawyers. Consider the recent lawsuit in Lubbock, Texas over an advertisement a company called Little Pencil wanted to display during the football games played at the local high school. But school officials rejected Mil...
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Capital City Free Press: Bill Morlin: U.S. Military ‘Jade Helm’ training plan draws fears from the antigovernment right
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Friday, May 8, 2015. Bill Morlin: U.S. Military ‘Jade Helm’ training plan draws fears from the antigovernment right. The US. military’s plan to conduct a training exercise this summer across seven states has become the latest hot-button topic for antigovernment conspiracy mongers who are advancing a plethora of wild-eyed theories. The US. Army’s Special Operations command has dismissed those conspiracy theories, saying Jade Helm is nothing more than “routine training to maintain a high le...8220;While mu...
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Capital City Free Press: Michael Josephson: How to succeed by failing forward
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Saturday, May 16, 2015. Michael Josephson: How to succeed by failing forward. The best way to teach our children to succeed is to teach them to fail. After all, if getting everything you want on the first try is success, and everything else is failure, we all fail much more often than we succeed. People who learn how to grow from unsuccessful efforts succeed more often and at higher levels because they become wiser and tougher. Thomas Watson, the founder of IBM, cautioned his leaders from being so carefu...
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Capital City Free Press: Robert Wilkerson: An outrageous proposal
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Friday, May 15, 2015. Robert Wilkerson: An outrageous proposal. It is outrageous that gambling is being considered for legalization in this state. Have our political leaders sunk so low they are willing to use the methods associated with and dominated by criminals and organized crime to bring in money? Not only does it hurt the economy, it hurts the people. It is a reverse Robin Hood, taking money from the poor and giving it to the rich. One New York gambling agent said, “Seventy percent of...Gambling ca...
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Capital City Free Press: Michael Josephson: Do a little more
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Saturday, May 2, 2015. Michael Josephson: Do a little more. In 1964, a young woman named Kitty Genovese was stabbed to death outside her apartment building in Queens, New York. She was attacked repeatedly over the course of an hour and despite her screams, none of the 38 neighbors intervened or called for help. Some were afraid. Some didn’t want to get involved. Some thought someone else would do it. I don’t think we have the obligation to put ourselves at risk to right every single wrong we witnes...
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Capital City Free Press: From risk to resilience: Preparing U.S. coasts for climate change
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Monday, May 4, 2015. From risk to resilience: Preparing U.S. coasts for climate change. Resolute policymaking to overcome these challenges will help sustain the economic dynamism of the nation’s coasts in the face of climate change, while reversing coastal ecosystem declines, fostering new enterprises and exportable innovations in infrastructure design and construction, and boosting coastal property values and private-sector investment. Investing in infrastructure and insight. Since 2001 the Capital City...
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SouthEastern Literary Tourism Initiative – SELTI
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SouthEastern Literary Tourism Initiative. 2016 SELTI Writing Contest: Selma and Dallas County. SouthEastern Literary Tourism Initiative. Welcome to the Main Guide of the Southeastern Literary Tourism Initiative. SELTI is a project that was launched in 2009 as a vehicle to combine tourism attractions and fiction in innovative ways. SELTI has published two tourism tourism novels, Blind Fate. And This Side of Paradise: Interactive Tourism Edition. In the left column. The SELTI Tourism Novels. Set largely in...
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