State Trooper shortage in Alabama
WAKA-CBS (Montgomery) – June 29
If you drive Alabama’s roads, it’s hard not to notice who you don’t see much of: Alabama state troopers.
You can drive for at least an hour in any direction without ever seeing one. It could be because they’re hiding, but most likely, it’s because there aren’t enough of them. Alabama only has 243 troopers on the job. That’s among the lowest in the country. That is well below the nearly 1000 a University of Alabama study found the state needs to adequately monitor the highways.
WNCF-ABC (Montgomery) – June 29
Financial Regulators and Dog Piles
Jurist.org – June 29
After the L.A. Times revealed that Wells Fargo employees opened millions of unauthorized consumer accounts, the bank faced multiple investigations and fines. (Julie A. Hill, is a professor at the University of Alabama School of Law. She is a recognized expert on financial institution regulation. Her scholarship has appeared in the Washington University Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, the Wisconsin Law Review, and other respected publications. In 2015, the University of Alabama awarded Professor Hill the President’s Faculty Research Award.)
Graduation – Sawyer Foyle
The Mountain Mail (Salida, Colorado) – June 29
Sawyer Foyle of Buena Vista recently earned a bachelor of science degree in chemistry and a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Waco Tribune-Herald (Texas) – June 29
St. Clair News (Pell City) – June 29
A Democratic Senator in deep red Alabama? At Doug Jones rally, optimism flourishes
Al.com – June 29
Alabama hasn’t elected a Democrat to a statewide office in more than a decade, and the party hasn’t held one of the state’s two Senate seats since Howell Heflin left office in early 1997. Pundits consider the state a safe GOP bet, where President Donald Trump won by a wider margin last November than Ronald Reagan did in the 1980s … “It would take a catastrophe of monumental proportions to make the November race anywhere near competitive,” said William Stewart, professor emeritus of political sciences at the University of Alabama and a longtime observer of state politics.
The Represent Rose: Part 2
Slate.com – June 29
On this episode of Represent, Slate producer Veralyn Williams and Robin M. Boylorn, an associate professor at the University of Alabama and member of the Crunk Feminist Collective, recap episodes 4–6 of The Bachelorette.