Word: alabama
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...spoken in Alabama, and He?s not a fan of state-sponsored gambling. That?s the line, at least, from Heart of Dixie religious leaders, who spearheaded a successful effort to defeat a proposed state lottery. The lottery was championed by Governor Donald Siegelman, whose 1998 election platform focused almost entirely on his pledge to bring state-sponsored gambling (and the resultant cash) to Alabama. Siegelman, who was understandably nonplussed by Tuesday?s defeat, had planned to use the profits from the lottery to bulk up the state's school budget. The voters? rejection of the referendum paints Alabama...
...bureau correspondent Ralph Holmes. "But in the past couple of months you?ve had every minister in every pulpit preaching against the lottery, warning that it would link education to gambling - and church people turned out in droves on Tuesday." Not that many of the arguments made by the Alabama anti-lottery movement don't find favor with a wide range of lottery critics across the country. Even though its proceeds go to good causes, they say, such gambling is inherently a regressive tax on the poor, whose comparitive desperation may tempt them to fritter away precious funds...
Colombia visits Alabama-Birmingham this Friday afternoon and then will stay to face Mississippi State on Sunday at noon...
College Tuition. Janet Tedesco, a high school teacher in Metairie, La., and her husband Ken, a college development officer, arranged a $65,000 line of credit in 1997. They are using it to put two children through school--Kerri, who graduated from Spring Hill College in Alabama in May, and Philip, a sophomore at Notre Dame...
...seems to me that the action this summer by the Kansas state board of education dropping evolution from the science curriculum, the ongoing battles about prayer in the schools--particularly in places like Alabama--and the struggles in many places including Massachusetts is a pretty clear sign that this is a big-time issue in American society at the beginning of the new century...