Retirement Systems of Alabama
Alabama needs a new statehouse. Alabamians deserve to know its cost.
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
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 […]
Alabama pursuing nation’s first new statehouse in nearly five decades
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 […]