Arthur Orr articles over last 30 days

- articles last 30 days - articles per day
Mentioned in this news Places Companies People
2013/05/19 04:19
2013/05/19 04:19
1m
MONTGOMERY — Alabama lawmakers will have more bills than time when they return Monday for their final day of the 2013 legislative session. From clarifying where guns can be carried in the state to...
2013/05/19 04:19
2013/05/19 04:19
Latest videos
2013/05/19 04:19
2013/05/19 04:19
Latest from Twitter
2013/05/16 04:20
2013/05/16 04:20
2d
MONTGOMERY - Gov. Robert Bentley said he wants to “change the conversation” about the Alabama Accountability Act and put the focus back where he thinks it belongs — giving failing schools the...
2013/05/16 01:38
2013/05/16 01:38
3d
On the final day of the Alabama legislative session, lawmakers will likely take up three bills involving welfare benefits. All of the bills have passed through the Senate and await votes from the...
2013/05/15 17:59
2013/05/15 17:59
3d
Who are Senate’s leaders?Published 11:51am Wednesday, May 15, 2013 We are at the end of the third regular legislative session of this quadrennium. They are closing in on the culmination of their...
2013/05/13 05:38
2013/05/13 05:38
5d
The Legislature worked until nearly midnight Thursday, its next-to-last meeting day, to complete the state education and General Fund budgets. Lawmakers are taking a week off before returning for...
2013/05/11 03:19
2013/05/11 03:19
7d
MONTGOMERY — The new state operating budget approved by the Alabama Legislature will mean hiring for one area of government and layoffs for another. The $1.7 billion General Fund approved by the...
2013/05/10 12:45
2013/05/10 12:45
8d
MONTGOMERY (AP) — The Alabama Legislature wrapped up work on both state budgets Thursday, including passing a nearly $5.8 billion education budget for the coming school year that will fund a 2 percent...
2013/05/10 05:19
2013/05/10 05:19
8d
MONTGOMERY — Republicans in the Alabama Legislature on Thursday evening approved several changes and clarifications to the Alabama Accountability Act, but not without emotional protests from Democrats...
2013/05/09 20:13
2013/05/09 20:13
9d
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Alabama Legislature has voted to extend two taxes that support the state Medicaid program. The assessments on nursing homes and hospitals were due to expire this year, but...
2013/05/07 23:31
2013/05/07 23:31
11d
Several bills that received some notoriety before or during the legislative session are dead for 2013. One of the most talked about bills dealt with closing Alabama Beverage Control, ABC Stores,...
2013/05/07 08:47
2013/05/07 08:47
11d
State lawmakers pass tax exempt billPublished 11:04am Tuesday, April 30, 2013 The Lurleen B. Wallace Community College Foundation took a giant step toward savings when the Alabama Legislature passed...
2013/05/06 20:43
2013/05/06 20:43
12d
According to Democrats in the Alabama Legislature, the Republican majority is at it again, targeting poor people who get public assistance. But unlike other times in the past, bills pending in the...
2013/05/06 20:04
2013/05/06 20:04
12d
Why does public atonement for crimes, sins and other wrongs of the past even matter? We can't take the whole human race back in a time machine and undo them. We can't make them go away just by...
2013/05/05 09:20
2013/05/05 09:20
13d
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) � Though the Alabama Legislature has cleared the way for posthumous pardons of the Scottsboro Boys, much work � from legal documents to public hearings � remains before the names...
2013/05/05 04:19
2013/05/05 04:19
13d
Lawmakers on the Legislative Contract Review Committee have been warning state agencies and boards for several months that they must use a new website when advertising contracts with private...
2013/05/02 23:43
2013/05/02 23:43
16d
MONTGOMERY (AP) — The Alabama Legislature's approval of the two state budgets will wait until the closing days of the 2013 session. Republican leaders of the Alabama Senate had planned to bring up...
2013/05/02 22:13
2013/05/02 22:13
16d
The Alabama Accountability Act is already signed into law, but a local lawmaker is working to change the rules before its put into action. Republican Senator Arthur Orr of Decatur said rather than be...
2013/05/02 05:19
2013/05/02 05:19
16d
MONTGOMERY — A bill to change the makeup of Alabama’s Teacher Retirement System board was altered in a House committee Wednesday to remove the leader of the Alabama Education...
2013/05/02 05:19
2013/05/02 05:19
16d
MONTGOMERY — Sen. Arthur Orr, R-Decatur, has a list of proposed changes he’d like to see made to the Alabama Accountability Act in the last four remaining work days of the legislative session. The...
2013/04/30 05:43
2013/04/30 05:43
18d
It’s late in the session, but a handful of state senators — including Sen. Arthur Orr, R-Decatur — are finally standing up to out-of-control colleagues. At issue is the Alabama Accountability Act,...