State Legislature Focuses on Budget, Common Core in First Week of Session

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The 2016 Alabama legislative session began Tuesday with bleak budget projections and an ambitious State of the State address from Governor Robert Bentley. Here to catch us up on all this week’s action from Montgomery is Don Dailey, host of Alabama Public Television’s Capitol Journal. Dailey told WBHM’s Rachel Osier Lindley that tensions at the statehouse weren’t as high as expected.

 

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