Special Session Likely For Alabama Legislature

| May 28, 2015 

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With the clock winding down on the 2015 legislative session, Alabama legislators have still not solved the state’s largest problem: a general fund budget shortfall of more than $250 million. While some new revenue measures passed this week, it’s not nearly enough to fill the gap.

For more on this, and the rest of the news from Montgomery, we talk with Don Dailey. He’s the host of Capitol Journal on Alabama Public Television, and he joins WBHM each Friday during the legislative session. To start, Dailey tells WBHM’s Rachel Osier Lindley about the few revenue measures that did pass this week.

 

 

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