Steve Flowers

3 weeks ago | enewscourier.com | Steve Flowers |Tom Mayer

Published 1:21 pm Saturday, March 29, 2025 During the past 10 years, the following question has been posed to me, “Flowers, why in the world does Alabama not have a lottery, and why can’t we receive the revenue from gambling that every one of our surrounding states and almost every state in America thrives on?”During this past decade, I have spoken to as many as 50 major Civic Clubs and Chamber of Commerce banquets.

1 month ago | enewscourier.com | Steve Flowers |Tom Mayer

Published 10:39 am Wednesday, March 19, 2025 As the legislative session evolves, I find myself missing my old friend Mac McArthur around the Statehouse. We would visit in the halls and sometimes sit together in the gallery. He would be busier than a one-armed paper hanger as he was always having to work on legislative matters for the state employees. We would reserve our long hours of talking politics for lengthy phone conversations in between legislative sessions.

1 month ago | enewscourier.com | Steve Flowers |Tom Mayer

Published 3:45 pm Saturday, March 15, 2025 For the casual observer, taking a cursory look at our political leaders reveals that may we have some pretty old folks in positions of power. Our new president, Donald Trump, is not a spring chicken at 78. Our own Alabama Governor Kay Ivey is 80 and goes by the monicker “Mee Maw.” However, a new generation of Alabama leaders are taking center stage in our state. Most of these leaders are already making their mark.

1 month ago | enewscourier.com | Steve Flowers |Tom Mayer

Published 12:52 pm Saturday, March 8, 2025 This Sunday leaders from throughout Alabama and the entire country will commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery March and the infamous Bloody Sunday on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. It was a momentous occasion and needs memorializing. Make no mistake about it, this event led to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which gave the vote to Black Americans throughout the country and primarily in the South.

2 months ago | dothaneagle.com | Steve Flowers

It is no secret that Alabama’s correctional system is a nightmare, especially when it comes to our disregard for civil and human rights of the incarcerated felons in our state prisons. That is why we have been under the wrath of the federal court system. A new mega prison is being currently constructed, which will help to comply with the federal mandates.