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Speakers at a public hearing Wednesday on the proposed 2025 Education Trust Fund budget urged lawmakers to include more money for summer meal programs, and reconsider cuts to the Alabama Public Library Service (APLS). The proposed 2025 ETF, sponsored by House Ways and Means Education Committee Chair Danny Garrett, R-Trussville, will allocate about $9.3 billion […] The post Speakers urge Alabama lawmakers to fund Summer EBT, restore library funds appeared first on Alabama Reflector.

A new historic marker may be coming to downtown Florence.

Generally, when running a government body, it’s not great when a decision to potentially spend more than $4 billion fits the description “disappointing and inexplicable,” but here we are.

State officials have awarded a prison medical care contract to the same company it's been using for years, despite widespread complaints over care.

Illinois has awarded a more than $4 billion prison medical care contract to the same company it's used for three decades, despite multimillion-dollar lawsuits against the firm and statewide complaints alleging substandard care. Pittsburgh-based Wexford Health Sources was one of two companies responding to a request for proposals from the Illinois Department of Corrections, but