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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 Operations Manager Parker Snider on iHeart Radio with JT as they discuss gender dysphoria and the proposals to reduce and eventually eliminate the state grocery tax.
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 Operations Manager Parker Snider on iHeart Radio with JT, as they discuss the passage of bipartisan legislation in the Alabama House banning transgenders from participating in sports outside their birth genders.
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discuss the recent ALGOP poll that determined Alabamians of both parties overwhelmingly want the Alabama grocery tax repealed.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.
Listen to 1819 News Reporter Craig Monger on "The Jeff Poor Show" as they discuss the browbeating freshman lawmakers received at their orientation.
Listen to 1819 News Executive Editor Jeff Poor on iHeart Radio with JT as they discuss the heavy-handedness of Republican leadership in the freshman legislator orientation.
Listen to 1819 News Fiscal and Budget Reporter Justin Bogie on "News & Views" with Joey Clark as they discuss over-budget and behind-schedule prison construction, government red tape and a prime example of government red tape, occupational licensing.
Listen to 1819 News Operations Manager Parker Snider on iHeart Radio with JT as they discuss academic censorship, with even liberal faculty fearing the cancel culture.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Lauren DeMoss Benson on "News & Views" with Joey Clark as they discuss the secret curriculum chosen by Ivey appointee Kevin Balius who once co-wrote an article advocating the forced instruction of LGBT subject matter on children as young as kindergartners.
Listen to 1819 News Operations Manager Parker Snider on iHeart Radio with JT as they discuss exhibition driving and the proposed increased penalties for the dangerous behavior.
Listen to 1819 News Fiscal and Budget Reporter Justin Bogie on "Midday Mobile" with Sean Sullivan as they discuss the ARPA bill in the Alabama legislature which basically leaves the spending decisions to the governor.
Listen to 1819 News Fiscal and Budget Reporter Justin Bogie on "News & Views" with Joey Clark as they discuss five teacher pay raises in the past four years with no appreciable increase in student scores and the governor wants to raise their pay again.
Listen to 1819 News Fiscal and Budget Reporter Justin Bogie on "Midday Mobile" with Sean Sullivan as they discuss how tax rebates are just a one-time refund of taxpayer money while tax cuts are an ongoing and continuous refund of taxpayer money, and the only positive long-term outcome of tax rebates is the government won't be able to spend that money.