JAMES MADISON QUOTE - 1822

"A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives."

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Thursday, January 1, 2009

Happy New Year To All

The Daily Sentinels Top 10 News Stories for Jackson County: http://thedailysentinel.com/story.lasso?ewcd=d8c93f47337bb762
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The top 10 Alabama news stories of 2008 by The Associated Press:
>Financial problems and corruption cases in Jefferson County.
>Uncertainty over a $35 billion contract to build Air Force tankers in Mobile.
>Democrats gain a seat in Alabama’s congressional delegation when Montgomery Mayor Bobby Bright defeats Rep. Jay Love, also of Montgomery, but Republican John McCain carries state in presidential vote.
>Proration of the state education budget.
>Father charged after four children are tossed to their deaths off a coastal bridge.
>Former Gov. Don Siegelman is freed from prison, appeals corruption conviction.
>Former Postsecondary Education Chancellor Roy Johnson pleads guilty to corruption.
>Thousands of Hurricane Gustav evacuees come to Alabama.
>Drought conditions end across Alabama.
>Three major pharmaceutical companies ordered to pay the state about $329 million over Medicaid payments.
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