Posts by Dale Jackson — Page 131
7. Auburn alumni are important for Alabama’s economy A study conducted by the Economic Research Services, Inc. and Auburn’s Division of University Outreach has released data that shows Auburn University alumni contribute $5.6 billion to Alabama’s economy annually. A press release from Auburn University stated that the $5.6 billion “marks a 4 percent increase from […]
Roy Moore is a mess and if the ALGOP is interested in improving our country, they should worry less about a freshman Congresswoman from Minnesota and more about defeating the blubbering imbecile that cost them the United States Senate Seat in 2017.
7. Major U.S. Army contracts coming to Alabama The U.S. Army has announced a contract of $347 million to Lockheed Martin for a Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon prototype system integrator in Courtland and another contract of $351.6 million given to Dynetics Technical Solutions for Common-Hypersonic Glide Body prototypes to be produced in Huntsville. Senator Richard Shelby […]
Jackson closes the show with a “parting shot” where he argues that maybe this toll bridge was never meant to succeed.
LaRavia describes a Baptist Student Union skit that Ivey participated in where she wore “a pair of blue coveralls and she had put some black paint all over her face,”
For most of us in the state of Alabama, the opposition to the Mobile Bay Bridge and Bayview project was little more than an exercise in good government. Should we be using tolls after the state just raised gasoline taxes 10 cents a gallon? Will the Alabama Department of Transportation be looking at toll projects […]
If U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) could have scripted a way to be seen as a sympathetic figure by the national media, it would have gone like this: The overwhelmingly white Alabama Republican Party meeting in Auburn, Alabama, will vote for a resolution that would ask that Omar be expelled from Congress. Which is exactly […]
The ALDOT document says that new highways and bridges "must be resilient to climate change and extreme weather events,
That position has risks attached to it, if they come off as unreasonable, they become easier to ignore as "noise."
Lieutenant Governor Will Ainsworth, Congressman Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville), and State Senate Pro Tem Del Marsh have joined the growing chorus of anti-toll advocates.
Congressman Mo Brooks was asked about Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth's toll opposition on WVNN radio and said that the lieutenant governor is smart.

