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• Common law marriage in Alabama ends in 2016

  26-09-2016 17:35
  
  A bill passed by the Alabama Legislature earlier this year abolishes common-law marriage - a union in which people present themselves as married despite not having a formal ceremony or getting a marriage license- after Jan. 1, 2017. Common-law marriage entered into before Jan. 1, 2017 will still be valid.
  
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• WITH THE TRUMP VIRDICT THE REPUBLIC HAS FALLEN!

  07-06-2024 13:41 via alabamagazette.com
  
  I will proudly vote for a convicted felon for President of these United States in November. Thursday's verdict-guilty on all 34 counts-was shocking but not surprising. How could it be surprising? We've known from the outset this was a sham trial in a kangaroo court, a purely political bit of theatrical lawfare intended to persecute the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party. Even...
  
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• UAH researcher demonstrates Milky Way's last major galactic collision happened much more recently than previously thought

  07-06-2024 13:41 via alabamagazette.com
  
  HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (JUN 6, 2024) – Dr. Tom Donlon, a postdoctoral researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, is the lead author of a new paper published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society that reveals the Milky Way Galaxy's last major collision occurred billions of years later than previously thought. Donlon wor...
  
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• UAB announces that Charlie Hoyle will be the new golf coach

  07-06-2024 13:41 via alabamagazette.com
  
  UAB recently names Charlie Hoyle as their next head golf coach. Hoyle is the ninth head coach in school history. Mark Ingram is the UAB athletic director, "Charlie Hoyle is a true professional and our staff gravitated to him immediately," Ingram said. "He has a clear plan for UAB's golf program and a great respect for our history. Charlie expects success and has a great track...
  
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• Tuberville vows to oppose all Biden's political and judicial nominees

  07-06-2024 13:41 via alabamagazette.com
  
  This is an election year and not much gets done legislatively during presidential election years; but this is not your normal presidential election. On Thursday, May 30 a New York jury found the presumptive Republican nominee for President – former President Donald J. Trump – guilty on 34 counts. Republicans, including U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama), are furious about the verdict and wh...
  
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• Tuberville, Grassley Rebuke Abuse of Unaccompanied Migrant Youth

  07-06-2024 13:41 via alabamagazette.com
  
  On Friday, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) joined U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and 43 Senate colleagues, including U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Alabama) in introducing a bipartisan Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to strike down the Biden administration’s rule about unaccompanied minors crossing the border. Tuberville and the Republican warn that Biden’s plan for unaccomp...
  
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• Tuberville and Grassley object to Biden's unaccompanied migrant youth rule

  07-06-2024 13:41 via alabamagazette.com
  
  On Friday, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) joined U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and 43 Senate colleagues, including U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Alabama) in introducing a bipartisan Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to strike down the Biden administration's rule about unaccompanied minors crossing the border. Tuberville and the Republican warn that Biden's plan...
  
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• Three WWII Combat Veterans Celebrate Birthdays!

  07-06-2024 13:41 via alabamagazette.com
  
  Two WWII veterans celebrated their 99th birthdays during May. Charles E. Lynn will celebrated his birthday May 23, 2024, and Joseph Simon celebrated his birthday May 29, 2024. Lynn joined the United States Army Air Corps and served as a gunner in a turret in the bottom of B17's flying 35 missions from England over Germany without injury. Lynn states, "I served my country. I would do it...
  
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• The Story Behind Flag Day: Celebrating the Stars and Stripes

  07-06-2024 13:41 via alabamagazette.com
  
  Every year on 14 June, Americans come together to honor a symbol that embodies the spirit and resilience of a nation — the Stars and Stripes. Flag Day is a time for reflection, pride, and unity as citizens across our country celebrate the adoption of the United States flag. Flag Day commemorates the adoption of the first American flag by the Second Continental Congress on 14 June 1777. This resolu...
  
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• The Day The Dollar Died

  07-06-2024 13:41 via alabamagazette.com
  
  June 12th, 2024 was The Day The Dollar Died. It hasn’t collapsed yet, and won’t for some time. Like a wild hog, it will fight on, mortally wounded and bleeding, until it finally staggers, stumbles, then falls. The dollar is too big, too bound up in the global economy to go down to a single shot. It’s suffered nicks and scrapes these last few years, and will suffer more in the days to come, but Wed...
  
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• Supreme Court rejects bump stock ban

  07-06-2024 13:41 via alabamagazette.com
  
  On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the ATF's rule making possession of bump stocks a crime is unenforceable. The decision was written by Justice Clarence Thomas and passed the Court 6 to 3. Bump stocks had been legally sold across this country for years, until an assassin used them in a Los Vegas mass shooting to kill 60 people and wound a hundred more at an outdoors concert. Bump...
  
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• Stallions to play Brahmas in UFL championship

  07-06-2024 13:41 via alabamagazette.com
  
  The Stallions won their place in the United Football League (UFL) championship with their third win of the year over the Michigan Panthers on Saturday in the USFL Conference championship game. On Sunday, they found out who their opponent would be when the San Antonio Brahmas beat the St. Louis Battlehawks in the XFL Conference championship game. The Brahmas led throughout culminating in the 25 to...
  
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• Stallions advance to the league championship game

  07-06-2024 13:41 via alabamagazette.com
  
  On Saturday, the Birmingham Stallions won the USFL Conference Championship game, defeating the Michigan Panthers for the third time this season. The Stallions improved 10 and 1 on the year with the 31 to 18 playoffs victory. This is the third year of the Stallions' existence and the third time that they have played in the league championship game. 10,287 fans were on hand in...
  
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• Squash Recipes

  07-06-2024 13:41 via alabamagazette.com
  
  We're approaching that time of year when gardens start "turning to squash", as Momma used to say. Yellow squash and its cousin zucchini are everywhere! They're inexpensive, filling, and complement a wide range of other dishes. One of my favorite ways to use squash and zucchini together is this simple recipe, which roasts fresh veggies into a healthy, versatile side dish. Baked...
  
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• SOCIAL SECURITY

  07-06-2024 13:41 via alabamagazette.com
  
  SOCIAL SECURITY OMITS FOOD FROM IN-KIND SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE CALCULATIONS Supplement Security Income (SSI) provides monthly payments to adults and children with a disability or blindness. It also provides monthly payments to adults aged 65 and older, who have limited income and resources. SSI benefits help pay for basic needs like rent, food, clothing, and medicine. People applying for and...
  
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• Sewell voted against 2025 National Defense Authorization Act

  07-06-2024 13:41 via alabamagazette.com
  
  On Friday, Congresswoman Terri Sewell (D-Selma) voted against the Fiscal Year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that passed the House of Representatives on Friday. Sewell voted for the NDAA when it came out of the House Armed Services Committee where she is a member. On Friday she voted against the bill after Republicans added a number of partisan amendments that Democrats opposed to...
  
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• Saturday was the one year anniversary of Supreme Court decision rejecting Alabama's congressional districts

  07-06-2024 13:41 via alabamagazette.com
  
  Saturday, marked the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Allen v. Milligan, which sent Alabama’s congressional districts back to the courts for review. Supporters of the decision claim that the court reinforced Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Opponents argue that it is simply gerrymandering based on arbitrary racial breakdowns. As a result, however Alabama, Louisiana,...
  
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• Rogers criticizes President Biden for not support pay increase for junior enlisted service members

  07-06-2024 13:41 via alabamagazette.com
  
  On Tuesday, Congressman Mike Rogers (R-AL03) strongly criticized President Joseph R. Biden (D) for opposing a significant pay increase for junior enlisted members of the armed forces. Rogers is the Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. He released a statement on President Biden's objection to the 15% pay raise for junior enlisted servicemembers in the Servicemember Quality of Life...
  
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• Roads Important and Political

  07-06-2024 13:41 via alabamagazette.com
  
  Many of you took to the roads to travel over Memorial Day. I am sure this resulted in rumblings and discourses about the deplorable conditions of Alabama’s roads. Most of you, if you went anywhere, had to travel on I-65. Most Alabamians live along the I-65 corridor. I-65 is approximately 366 miles from the Tennessee-Alabama line to Mobile. It is a nightmare. I can attest to the frustration of bein...
  
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• R3 Professionals Experience Alabama's Natural Resources, Hospitality

  07-06-2024 13:41 via alabamagazette.com
  
  Outdoors professionals from around the country converged on Mobile and Riverview Plaza last week to brainstorm on recruitment, retention and reactivation (R3) of hunters, anglers and other outdoors enthusiasts. The 210 National R3 Symposium attendees from all over the U.S., as well as New Zealand and Guam, heard reports on hunting and fishing participation numbers, youth shooting sports, new R3...
  
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• On Being In Step

  07-06-2024 13:41 via alabamagazette.com
  
  Somehow the Kyoto Tachibana SHS Band found me on Facebook, and it’s been a good thing. This Japanese group plays beautiful music while making dance moves, and they’re fun to watch. However, this is not what I remember from my years with the Minor High School Tigers Marching Band. I do remember a “two-step” we did while playing Herb Alpert’s “The Lonely Bull.” Our bass drummer had trouble with thes...
  
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• Military Marker Installation for PFC Edward L. Chappell

  07-06-2024 13:41 via alabamagazette.com
  
  On May 19, 2024, a grave marker was installed for Private First Class (PFC) Edward L. Chappell who was killed in action March 17, 1969 serving in the US Army 191 Light Artillery (BDE) Field Artillery in combat in Quang Ngai, Vietnam, during Vietnam War. PFC Chappell was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart, the Vietnam Service Medal, the Vietnam Campaign Medal and the Good Conduct Medal. The...
  
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• lTuberville vows to oppose all Biden's political and judicial nominees

  07-06-2024 13:41 via alabamagazette.com
  
  This is an election year and not much gets done legislatively during presidential election years; but this is not your normal presidential election. On Thursday, May 30 a New York jury found the presumptive Republican nominee for President – former President Donald J. Trump – guilty on 34 counts. Republicans, including U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama), are furious about the verdict and wh...
  
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• Legislative Session Fails to Let Alabamians Vote on a Lottery

  07-06-2024 13:41 via alabamagazette.com
  
  The regular Legislative Session ended on May 9, with final passage of both budgets, which is the only constitutionally mandated requirement of the legislature during its annual legislative session. However, there was another constitutional question that dominated the session – the perennial issue of whether Alabamians will ever be allowed to purchase lottery tickets in Alabama and keep Alabamians...
  
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• Katie Britt and Lindsey Graham toured Omaha Beach

  07-06-2024 13:41 via alabamagazette.com
  
  During the 80th Anniversary of D-Day, U.S. Senators Katie Britt (R-Alabama) and Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) toured Omaha Beach, one of five beach landing sites for the Allied forces during World War II. "...80 years ago today, so many brave men came to protect freedom, freedom that we're enjoying now in America and across the globe," said Sen. Britt. "...we're the...
  
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• June is National Pet Preparedness Month

  07-06-2024 13:41 via alabamagazette.com
  
  June is National Pet Preparedness Month encouraging pet owners to plan ahead in the event of a natural or man-made disaster. For our area, tornados, hurricanes, flooding and fire are the most likely and all of us should plan for our family's safety, to include our pets. The first step in planning is to find a safe place to stay - a friend, family member, emergency shelter run by a local...
  
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• Judicial Watch announces that the FBI shared dossiers on whistleblowers with Democrats

  07-06-2024 13:41 via alabamagazette.com
  
  On Monday, Judicial Watch announced that it has received 54 pages of records from the Department of Justice in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit which they claim shows that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Office of Congressional Affairs (OCA) provided a Democrat staffer with information on FBI whistleblowers who testified in a May 18, 2023 hearing. The whistleblowers detailed...
  
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• Jefferson Davis, Federalism, and Consensual Government

  07-06-2024 13:41 via alabamagazette.com
  
  In the modern world, we are encouraged to demonize certain individuals and idolize others. For years, those who control the narrative have promoted Abraham Lincoln as an individual to be admired and, sometimes even lionized. As a proponent of centralized power and government/corporate partnerships, Lincoln had and still has many like-minded supporters. Lincoln has also been lauded for his role in...
  
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• Italian Festival is Saturday in Birmingham

  07-06-2024 13:41 via alabamagazette.com
  
  The Italian American Heritage Society is hosting the Italian cultural festival at historic Sloss Furnace in Birmingham to celebrate Italian heritage and the Italian community's contributions to Alabama on Saturday, June 15. The first Festa Italiana will celebrate and preserve Italian culture and heritage in the Birmingham area and will feature Italian food, beverages, music, culture,...
  
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• Injustice in New York and a Dark Day for America

  07-06-2024 13:41 via alabamagazette.com
  
  The recent New York court proceedings that found Donald Trump guilty are nothing short of a disgraceful mockery of justice. This entire charade was never about upholding the law but about targeting a political opponent in a brazen, shameless display of judicial activism. The kangaroo court in New York has crossed every line of decency and integrity, and every American, regardless of political...
  
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