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  • Friday, May 18 2012 7:20 PM EDT2012-05-18 23:20:53 GMT
    If you text and drive it's a matter of WHEN and not IF you will be involved in an accident. The odds are stacked against you when your eyes and hands are more focused on your cell phone than they are
    If you text and drive it's a matter of WHEN and not IF you will be involved in an accident.  The odds are stacked against you when your eyes and hands are more focused on your cell phone than they are the other motorists on the roadways.

  • Tuesday, May 15 2012 7:20 PM EDT2012-05-15 23:20:31 GMT
    On our editorial suggesting that the governor raise taxes to fund Medicaid, we received these comments: "If the budget is passed at this severely cut rate, the shortage of physicians, hospitals, and clinics
    On our editorial suggesting that the governor raise taxes to fund Medicaid, we received these comments:

  • Tuesday, May 1 2012 7:20 PM EDT2012-05-01 23:20:35 GMT
    If your commute includes I-85 in the mornings I'm sure you've noticed men alongside the roadways picking up trash and road debris and thought to yourself "who would want to do that?"
    If your commute includes I-85 in the mornings I'm sure you've noticed men alongside the roadways picking up trash and road debris and thought to yourself "who would want to do that?"

  • Friday, April 20 2012 7:20 PM EDT2012-04-20 23:20:42 GMT
    For the next sixty seconds I want you to give yourself permission to push pause on whatever you are doing and listen and reflect for a moment. I did this recently after reading an article titled "Top five

  • Wednesday, April 18 2012 7:27 PM EDT2012-04-18 23:27:31 GMT
    Representative Christopher John England (Tuscaloosa) has sponsored a bill in the Alabama legislature that would allow convicted felons of drug crimes to receive food stamps under certain circumstances.

MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) - Our editorial "Cut the Debt" received quite a bit of response. 

One viewer emailed "We need to end the Federal Reserve.  We cannot allow them to continue to print money out of thin air, with nothing to back it – they are destroying the dollar.  The dollar is worth pennies compared to the 1913 dollar, the year Federal Reserve was created." 

Another viewer emailed "Until we, as citizens, take running our government as seriously as we do the Super Bowl, we will continue to get what we deserve." 

Regarding our editorial "Statewide Education Improvement" one viewer emailed: "We need to have education based on something more stable than sales tax.  We have needed constitutional changes to fix this for years." 

And our "Library Services" editorial received this response from Rebecca Mitchell, the Director of the Alabama Public Library Service: "We have 219 public libraries in our state and they are the unsung heroes of their communities.  With limited funding, they provide services for all regardless of their economic conditions."

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