Rightside Way: Good Sports
By former State Senator Phil Williams
Sports has always brought out a fevered pitch reaction from fans. Sporting events create great memories, great lessons, and...
Some Assembly Required
As we approach Christmas, I would like to send a heartfelt wish of good luck to all of you parents out there with young...
Rightside Way: Alabama…..A Nanny State?
By former State Senator Phil Williams
I fully accept that government has a role. By design government is intended to provide essential services needed for...
Inside the Statehouse: Lister Hill, One of Alabama Greatest U.S. Senators
By Steve Flowers
We had a very distinguished congressional delegation from Alabama during the 30-year span of 1934-1964. The congressmen from the Heart of Dixie...
The Battle Over School Prayer
We may hear a candidate or seated politician proclaim that they will “get prayer back into our public schools.” They fail to recognize how...
Inside the Statehouse: Career Politicians, Good or Bad?
By Steve Flowers
In recent years, candidates for political office have lambasted, run against and proclaimed that they were not career politicians. Every television ad...
Rightside Way: Something for Nothing
By former State Senator Phil Williams
I don’t want to brag or anything but back in the day I was one smooth operator. On one...
Inside the Statehouse: 60th Anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s Assassination
By Steve Flowers
The assassination of John F. Kennedy happened 60 years ago this week. It occurred to me that a good many of you...
Inside the Statehouse: Negative Ads Work and Always Have
By Steve Flowers
Over the years many of you have lamented to me and said, “I am so tired of seeing all negative ads with...
Rightside Way: Fallacious, Salacious and Downright Contumacious
By former State Senator Phil Williams
Recently the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations appeared at an emergency session of the UN Security Council and...
