Listen to 1819 News Fiscal and Budget Reporter Justin Bogie on "Midday Mobile" with Sean Sullivan as they discuss the 40% increase in legislative spending over the past few years, growing government instead of shrinking it and giving more money back to Alabama citizens as the Republican platform claims they want to do.
Listen to 1819 News Fiscal and Budget Reporter Justin Bogie on "News & Views" with Joey Clark as they discuss the "historic" Alabama legislative session, spending the most money in Alabama's history.
Listen to 1819 News Editor-at-Large Erica Thomas on "Midday Mobile" with Sean Sullivan as they discuss the backlash companies such as Bud Light and Target are experiencing because of their support for the transgender agenda.
Listen to 1819 News Executive Editor Jeff Poor on iHeart Radio with JT as they discuss the missed opportunities for the overwhelmingly "conservative" Alabama Legislature to pass conservative legislation.
Listen to 1819 News Fiscal and Budget Reporter Justin Bogie on "News & Views" with Joey Clark as they discuss the federal debt limit deal, of which Alabama receives approximately $60 billion per year.
Listen to 1819 News Fiscal and Budget Reporter Justin Bogie on "Midday Mobile" with Sean Sullivan as they discuss the "conservative" legislature's apparent running out the clock on various proposals popular with Alabama's citizens in order to please AEA & MASA.
Listen to 1819 News Fiscal and Budget Reporter Justin Bogie on "News & Views" with Joey Clark as they discuss the various tax bills pending before the legislature, while combined they don't come close to the $2 billion in recent Georgia tax cuts.
Listen to 1819 News Fiscal and Budget Reporter Justin Bogie discuss tax credit proposals in the Alabama Legislature, including a $150 million film credit, an increase of $100 million, while no legislation has yet been passed to repeal the grocery tax which would benefit all Alabamians.
Listen to 1819 News Editor-at-Large Erica Thomas on "Midday Mobile" with Sean Sullivan as they discuss the judge's order on the preliminary injunction in the Baldwin County Bridge Company's lawsuit against DOT Director John Cooper, with the order declaring "It is clear from the record that Director Cooper misled BCBC and the people of Alabama and lied about his reason for pursuing his own bridge."
Listen to 1819 News Fiscal and Budget Reporter Justin Bogie on "News & Views" with Joey Clark as they discuss the AEA's push to raise staff worker pay to $15 per hour when the state's minimum wage is $7.25 per hour.
Listen to 1819 News Executive Editor Jeff Poor on iHeart Radio with JT as they discuss the offensive books found in the Prattville library and the racist comments of State Rep. Juandalynn Givan on the House floor.
Listen to 1819 News Fiscal and Budget Reporter Justin Bogie on "News & Views" with Joey Clark as they discuss the national debt limit and the consequences of defaulting on public debts.
Listen to 1819 CEO Bryan Dawson on "News & Views" with Joey Clark as they discuss the disconnect between the Alabama GOP party platform, which supports smaller government, and actions by the Alabama legislature, which steadily grows government.
Listen to 1819 News Fiscal and Budget Reporter Justin Bogie on "Midday Mobile" with Sean Sullivan as they discuss the latest grocery tax repeal proposal which prohibits local governments from raising those taxes.
Listen to 1819 News Fiscal and Budget Reporter Justin Bogie on "News & Views" with Joey Clark as they discuss proposed school choice legislation that is being bounced around the legislature but not acted upon.
Listen to 1819 News Editor-at-Large Erica Thomas on "Midday Mobile" with Sean Sullivan as they discuss the Mobile city annexation plans which citizens could vote upon and how to fight the opioid crisis with Narcan and fentanyl test strips.
Listen to 1819 News Fiscal and Budget Reporter Justin Bogie on "News & Views" with Joey Clark as they discuss the legislative progress on the elimination of Alabama's grocery tax.
Listen to 1819 News Fiscal and Budget Reporter Justin Bogie on "Midday Mobile" with Sean Sullivan as they discuss the potential Birmingham Southern Bailout and the dangerous precedent it would set.
Listen to 1819 News Fiscal and Budget Reporter Justin Bogie on "News & Views" with Joey Clark as they discuss the recent ALGOP poll that determined Alabamians of both parties overwhelmingly want the Alabama grocery tax repealed.
Listen to 1819 News Fiscal and Budget Reporter Justin Bogie on "Midday Mobile" with Sean Sullivan as they discuss the strange items in the governor's supplemental Education Trust Fund budget, including money for a waterpark, an airport and a World Games bailout.
Listen to 1819 News Editor-at-Large Erica Thomas on "Midday Mobile" with Sean Sullivan as they discuss the Baldwin Bridge Company civil litigation against ALDOT.
Listen to 1819 News Executive Editor Jeff Poor on iHeart Radio with JT as they discuss proposed legislation to outlaw holding a cell phone in one's hand while driving and proposed legislation to outlaw smoking or vaping in one's automobile if kids 14 and under are present.
Listen to 1819 News Fiscal and Budget Reporter Justin Bogie on "News & Views" with Joey Clark as they discuss Alabama's weird and separate Education Trust Fund budget.
Listen to 1819 News Fiscal and Budget Reporter Justin Bogie on "The Jeff Poor Show" as they discuss the rising costs of the new Elmore County prison, which is approaching $1 billion.
Listen to 1819 News Fiscal and Budget Reporter Justin Bogie on "Midday Mobile" with Sean Sullivan as they discuss Medicaid expansion and how the federal government will cover most of the increase for the first two years and then the financial burden will fall on the state.
Listen to 1819 News Fiscal and Budget Reporter Justin Bogie on "News & Views" with Joey Clark as they discuss the lack of bold ideas in the governor's proposed budget.
Listen to 1819 News Fiscal and Budget Reporter Justin Bogie on "Midday Mobile" with Sean Sullivan as they discuss the possible federal government takeover of Alabama prisons and release of unrehabilitated felons if new Alabama prisons aren't built by 2025.