In the News
International Services Council celebrates citizen diplomacy
By Kay Campbell | AL.com | October 9, 2012
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - Austin Boyd has traveled the world, both as a Navy pilot and as a businessman, but it was an election official from Moldova who taught him something he never knew about his own country.
'Mother Teresa of Cairo' a possible Nobel Peace prize winner
ByAl ARABIYA WITH AFP | Al Arabiya News | October 8, 2012
Army Corps agrees to second look at lock policy
By David Rainer | The Wetumpka Herald | October 6, 2012
After a significant public outcry, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Mobile District has agreed to take a second look at a controversial lock policy that would preclude recreational boaters on rivers like the Alabama.
OUTDOORS COLUMN: Relief sought for ban on Alabama River
By David Rainer | Times-Journal | October 4, 2012
After a significant public outcry, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Mobile District has agreed to take a second look at a controversial lock policy that would preclude recreational boaters on rivers like the Alabama.
Aderholt announces Ag and Industry tour
The Gadsden Times | October 4, 2012
U.S. Rep. Robert Aderholt’s annual 4th Congressional District Agriculture and Industries Tour will highlight businesses in Colbert and Lawrence counties.
This is the 13th such tour Aderholt, R-Haleyville, has hosted.
'Huddling' with the governor
By David Moore | The Arab Tribune | October 1, 2012
Icebreakers Protected From Decommissioning Under Coast Guard Bill
By Jennifer Scholtes | CQ Today | September 25, 2012
House Members Push Obama to Prevent Ahmadinejad UN Speech on Yom Kippur
By Pete Kasperowicz | The Hill | September 24, 2012
House Members Push Obama to Prevent Ahmadinejad UN Speech on Yom Kippur
theyeshivaworld.com | September 24, 2012
A bipartisan group of House members put forward a resolution that calls on the Obama administration to pressure the United Nations to prevent Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from addressing the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, which is Yom Kippur.
Local, state officials still meeting on Co. Rd 222 interchange
By Trent Moore and David Palmer | The Cullman Times | September 21, 2012