Kim Chandler

2 weeks ago | apnews.com | Kim Chandler

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — More than half of families who applied for Alabama’s new school voucher program have children attending a private school or are home schooling, as school choice advocates say the flood of applications proves the approach is what parents want. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey’s office released application figures Tuesday for the CHOOSE Act, the new program which will help eligible families tap state dollars to help pay for private school or home-schooling costs.

3 weeks ago | apnews.com | Kim Chandler

MONTGOMERY, Alabama, EE.UU. (AP) — El fiscal general de Alabama no puede procesar a personas y grupos que ayuden a mujeres del estado a viajar a otras entidades de Estados Unidos para abortar, dictaminó el lunes un juez federal. El juez de distrito Myron Thompson se puso del lado de un fondo para abortos y proveedores médicos que demandaron al fiscal general de Alabama, Steve Marshall, después de que él insinuara que podrían enfrentar un juicio bajo leyes anticonspiración.

2 months ago | apnews.com | Kim Chandler

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers are seeking the ability to borrow an additional $500 million for prison construction after the price of the state’s new mega-prison rose to over $1 billion, complicating plans to build a second behemoth facility. The Senate Finance and Taxation Committee-General Fund on Wednesday advanced legislation that would raise the maximum amount of bonds that may be issued by the Alabama Corrections Institution Finance Authority from $785 million to $1.285 billion.

2 months ago | washingtontimes.com | Kim Chandler

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama’s congressional map is at stake in a federal trial beginning Monday to decide if the state will keep the new court-created district that led to the election of a second Black representative. A three-judge panel will decide whether congressional lines drawn by state lawmakers diluted the voting power of Black residents. The same panel already ruled against Alabama in pre-trial decisions that reshaped the 2nd Congressional District before Rep.

2 months ago | kaaltv.com | Kim Chandler

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — After a violent year that saw multiple mass shootings in the state, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey and many lawmakers in both parties are supporting a ban on so-called Glock switches and other conversion devices that make semi-automatic weapons fire like machine guns. The Republican governor is expected to back the proposal in her State of the State address Tuesday as part of a broader package of bills focused on public safety that she has named her top priority for the session.