Retirement Systems of Alabama

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The exterior of the Alabama Statehouse, with three main doors on the bottom, rising about six stories. The walls are white with a gray cap.

Alabama needs a new statehouse. Alabamians deserve to know its cost.

BY: - November 13, 2023

Alabamians have every right to be cynical about their state government. After all, there’s a long history of Montgomery politicians enriching themselves or enriching business allies while distracting voters with attacks on those least able to respond. It’s an old, ossified attitude. We live under a Jim Crow constitution passed in 1901. Georgia has had […]

RSA head says they’re working on an agreement with architects to build new State House

BY: - September 12, 2023

The head of the state’s public employees retirement system said Tuesday that the system is trying to get the cost of a new state house down to a reasonable price.  “As all of us that are in state government know, it’s long overdue,” said David Bronner, the CEO of the Retirement Systems of Alabama, during […]

A concept rendering of a new Alabama Statehouse. A white building with a dome and trees surrounding it.

Alabama pursuing nation’s first new statehouse in nearly five decades

BY: - July 11, 2023

Lawmakers have several priorities for a new statehouse. One is providing a place for elementary school students to safely get off their buses.  Trips to Goat Hill are a regular event for fourth-graders in Alabama. But the buses taking them have to stop on South Union Street, a busy street running between the State Capitol […]