My column today was an introduction to the blog, so I feel like I should spare those of you who have taken the initiative to come look at the blog another promotion of the blog. This is our first day doing...
The week’s proposed SGA Senate resolutions Thursday night concerned football ticket donations, beverage lines at football games and the Afro-American Gospel Choir. Senator Jonathan Thompson authored...
A recently inaugurated Nicole Bohannon began her job as Executive Vice President Thursday night, calling to order a meeting of a new SGA Senate in the Ferguson Forum. New Senators packed the room, and...
As the executive vice president for the 2009-10 academic year, Meg McCrummen said she sought to empower the SGA senate. McCrummen said she has sought to ensure that senators can have their visions materialize...
The SGA Senate convened a special session Tuesday night in order to hold voting on major reforms to the SGA Code of Laws. The Senate passed all but eight of the measures, unanimously voting to pass most...
Lawmakers in 19 states have passed laws banning drivers from texting while behind the wheel. Alabama may soon become the 20th state on that list. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill by way...
Tuscaloosa residents may soon see a change in county laws that ban the sale of alcohol on Sundays. The state House of Representatives approved a bill Tuesday authorizing a vote on allowing the sale of...
I could never call $35 billion a “small amount of money,” seeing as I still find paying an extra quarter for a Dr. Pepper from a soda machine egregious. For our federal government, however, $35 billion...
On Sunday, The New York Times ran letters to the editor from retiring Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., and former Sen. Lincoln Chafee, R-R.I., that decried the partisanship and inefficacy of the United States Senate....
The reformist tone established last week in the SGA Senate meeting carried over to Thursday night’s meeting as a united Senate unanimously passed reforms to the SGA Code of Laws. Senators voted on the...
The SGA Senate convened in an environmentally friendly manner Thursday night as they began this semester’s first paperless meeting. With the minutes and resolutions projected on a television in the Ferguson...
