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Alabama News Senators Clyde Chambliss and Bobby Singleton are sponsoring a bill that will take funds from the statewide property tax that is tied to the confederacy, to help preserve and promote black history. Alabama First Created this tax to help confederate soldiers and their widows after the war. The state has continued to collect taxes ever since. Most of the revenue is used for other purposes, but 1% goes to the state’s Confederate Memorial Park  in Mountain Creek. The two senators wan...

Two Alabama state senators say they want to divert part of a statewide property tax tied to the legacy of the Confederacy to preserve and promote Black history in the state.  Alabama imposed the tax to fund pensions for Confederate soldiers and their widows, and still collects it today, the only tax directly tied to the Confederacy.  Most of the revenue is used for other purposes, but one per cent goes to preserve and operate the states Confederate Memorial Park in rural Mountain Creek.  Sen...

Alabama's Confederacy tax pays for the upkeep of the site where poor Confederate veterans lived. The last veteran died at the home in 1934.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Two Alabama state senators say they want to divert part of a...

Alabama imposed the tax to fund pensions for Confederate soldiers and their widows, and still collects it today, the only tax directly tied to the Confederacy.

Whitmire: Alabama lawmakers’ transparency promises you can see right through Updated 8:54 AM; Today 8:54 AM Sen. Rodger Smitherman voted to allow a public records bill out of committee this week, but dont mistake that for support. (Mickey Welsh/Montgomery Advertiser via AP)AP Facebook Share This is an opinion column. A rewrite of Alabama’s worst-in-the-nation open records law passed out of a state Senate committee this week on a 9-to-1 vote. Maybe I should be happy about that. After three...

Riots broke out at the Waterside and other parts of Londonderry The DUP is for now trying to direct pressure on Sinn Fein, accusing it of politicising the coronavirus crisis in the wake of widespread condemnation from all other parties over the attendance of its leaders at the Storey funeral. "Approximately 2,000 people have died in Northern Ireland since the pandemic began a year ago - thats the families and friends of 2,000 people who couldnt attend their funerals," said a DUP source. "The pu...

Bonfire builders across Northern Ireland have vowed to go ahead with their Eleventh night celebrations following the Public Prosecution Service’s decision not to prosecute those in attendance at IRA man Bobby Storey’s funeral. On Tuesday, the Director of Public Prosecutions, Stephen Herron, announced that none of the 24 members of Sinn Fein, who attended Storey’s funeral in west Belfast in June, will face prosecution for allegedly breaching Covid-19 regulations. Around 2,000 mourners line...

Eleventh Night bonfires, cancelled last year in response to the Covid pandemic, will now go ahead in July, regardless of the restrictions in place at that time, according to loyalist sources. Loyalists in Moygashel, Co Tyrone, have said they will refuse to liaise with community policing teams about their plans. Loyalists in the Tigers Bay area of north Belfast have also said they will no longer cooperate, saying they were taking a stand against “two-tier policing”. Further groups have withd...

Alabama lawmakers pass bill to allow churches, businesses to stay open during pandemic Updated 4:29 PM; The Alabama Legislature gave final approval today to a bill to limit the power of the governor and state and local agencies to close businesses and churches during a state of emergency caused by a pandemic. The Senate passed it today after the Republican majority voted to end a filibuster by Democrats. The House had passed it last month. Votes in both chambers were mostly along party lines, ...