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The recent outbreak of destructive tornadoes across the southeast has caused me to dredge up some old memories of some of my experiences with tornadoes. I have never experienced a direct hit from a tornado, but I have had some close calls and seen up close and personal, some of their results. More ... Too often when bad weather blows up, a lot of us think, "Oh well, it won't hit us" and we ignore the TV and radio warnings and the sirens, if they are within our hearing. Such was the case last Thursday when the sirens went off in Jackson after a tornado was reportedly spotted in the Salitpa area. "Oh, that's just the sirens," many of us said as we went about our business. More ... You have all known couples who you knew when they married that it wouldn't work…that they simply were not made for each other. The union of Dr. Thomas Corts with the State Board of Education was such a marriage. It was doomed from the start. More ... As you may know, I held 14 town hall meetings last month in all six counties of Alabama's First District. I would like to thank the many of you who came out to one or more of these meetings to visit with my staff and me. It was certainly good to see both familiar faces and meet so many new ones. More ... |
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