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Bryce Hospital will lay off 34 staffers due to budget woes
MONTGOMERY | The Department of Mental Health said Monday it will be laying off staff at Bryce Hospital in Tuscaloosa but the final number of jobs lost will partly be determined by attrition.
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Legislators say city needs help with recovery
Legislators on Monday promised city officials their support for additional aid to help the Tuscaloosa area recover from the April tornadoes. Mayor Walt Maddox showed legislators at the city’s legislative breakfast Monday morning that while the 2,375 homes destroyed in Tuscaloosa comprised 30.4 percent of the total 7,807 homes destroyed statewide on April 27, the Tuscaloosa region has received only small percentages of statewide aid, including about 10 percent of the more than $77 million recently approved for community-based safe rooms.
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Area builders hope for construction uptick in 2012
A report released last month that assessed the nation's construction industry had some sobering news for Alabama. The state's general contracting companies, which do commercial, industrial and infrastructure projects, saw some of the biggest decreases in employment in the country in 2011.
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Dave Matthews, Jack White to headline Hangout
The Dave Matthews Band and Jack White are headlining the 2012 Hangout Music Fest on the beach at Gulf Shores in May. The lineup also features dozens of other acts like String Cheese Incident, Dispatch, Wilco, the Flaming Lips and the Alabama Shakes, a quartet from Athens.
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LETTER: Political divide in this country is negative
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LETTER: Cutting essential services harms us all
Dear Editor: Inadequate funding represents the most serious threat in our lifetime to Alabama’s most vulnerable citizens: persons with intellectual/developmental disabilities, people with mental illness, and those with substance disorders.
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LETTER: Pick your political candidates wisely
Dear Editor: I’m a citizen of Hale County. I would like to ask the voters to pick their candidates wisely. See what they have to offer, especially the probate judge and county commissioners. Right now we have commissioners who don’t care about our children’s education. Some don’t have children in school and some just don’t care. Check their backgrounds.
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AEA vows to oppose charter schools
MONTGOMERY | The state teachers association said Monday it will oppose proposed charter school legislation and will seek suspension of a new education budget law because it will cut education appropriations by at least $108 million next year.
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Group hammers out plan to allocate storm shelter funds
TUSCALOOSA | After an exhaustive and sometimes contentious discussion, applicants for $7.55 million in community storm shelter grant money resolved their differences in a meeting Monday afternoon.
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Ala. Rep. Alan Harper switches to Republican Party
State Rep. Alan Harper of Aliceville is switching to the Republican Party.
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