Tag: Alabama Policy Institute
Personnel note: Alabama Policy Institute’s Katherine G. Robertson heading to AG’s...
Vice president of the Alabama Policy Institute (API), Katherine G. Robertson, will be leaving API after four years to take a position with the Alabama...
Katherine Robertson: If the people only knew
"THE PEOPLE want to vote!" — the most oft-repeated catchphrase of the lottery debate. Even politicians who declare themselves personally opposed to a state-run lottery...
Andrew A. Yerby: Looking at the lottery math
"Which is the most immoral," Gov. Robert Bentley mused philosophically to the press last week, "buying five lottery tickets with money you earned or allowing...
Email Insights: Alabama Policy Institute calls state lottery ‘voodoo budgeting’
The Alabama Policy Institute (API) sent an email with a video Wednesday that calls Gov. Robert Bentley's proposal for a state lottery "voodoo budgeting."
In July,...
Email insights: Rick Burgess weighs in on an Alabama Lottery
Last week the Alabama Legislature began its 2016 legislative session and once again lawmakers in Montgomery are scrambling for creative fixes to the state's ongoing...
Andrew A. Yerbey: The cultivation of our children
Christmas is a time for rejoicing and reflection. Both are manifest in one of the last poems written by T. S. Eliot, "The Cultivation of...
Email insights: Defined benefit plans explained
The Alabama Policy Institute (API) sent out an email Thursday endeavoring to explain the complicated world of public pensions with a helpful infographic.
Considering the fact...
Personnel Update: Elizabeth BeShears leaves Yellowhammer joins Jonathan McConnell campaign
Yellowhammer's secret weapon and content writer extraordinaire Elizabeth BeShears has moved on. According to BeShears she left Yellowhammer (YH) News last week has accepted the...
Katherine Robertson: Conservative solutions to poverty in Alabama
There is no shortage of ideological differences between conservatives and liberals or Republicans and Democrats, but perhaps the most divisive issue on the political...
Katherine Robertson: Legislative session postmortem: three themes
It's only been a few days since Governor Bentley signed the General Fund budget for fiscal year 2016 into law. We don't yet know...
