Alabama

Jan 28, 2008 -- Boston, MA – Today Governor Mitt Romney announced the members of the Romney for President Alabama Leadership Team. These 21 leaders will help Governor Romney organize grassroots efforts in the state and will help communicate his message of conservative change in Washington.    » read more »

January 28, 2008 -- MONTGOMER - Alabama Governor Bob Riley announced today the state is celebrating achievements in sports in 2008 by spotlighting legendary heroes, sports museums and athletic events. The Year of Alabama Sports is the fifth in a series of award-winning campaigns designed to lure tourists to various destinations.    » read more »

The new ads highlight Obama's ability to unify Americans to bring change

January 23, 2008 -- Chicago, IL - Today, the Obama campaign announced that it will begin airing new television ads in key February 5th states. Over the past two weeks, the Obama campaign became the first to air ads in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Tennessee and New Mexico. Today, the campaign also becomes the first to air ads in Alabama, Georgia and Delaware. The campaign is expanding ads through New Mexico, and also airing ads in Utah.

The new ads will begin airing tonight in the following states:    » read more »

January 21, 2008 -- MONTGOMERY -- Alabama Governor Bob Riley said he is very pleased that the U.S. Small Business Administration will open a Disaster Loan Outreach Center in Vernon on Tuesday. Residents of Lamar and Pickens counties may be eligible for assistance resulting from the severe storms and tornadoes that passed through the area on January 10. These counties are eligible because they are contiguous to one or more of the primary counties in a Mississippi Emergency Declaration.    » read more »

January 16, 2008 -- OZARK – Alabamians wanting to work in the state’s growing aerospace and aviation industry can receive specialized training at a new Aviation Training Center that Alabama Governor Bob Riley and other officials dedicated today at the Ozark campus of Enterprise-Ozark Community College.

The $10 million facility will house aircraft maintenance and simulation technology to provide state-of-the-art training for jobs in the aviation field.    » read more »

January 15, 2008 -- DECATUR – More Alabamians would have health care coverage if small businesses had a financial incentive to offer health insurance to their employees, Alabama Governor Bob Riley told members of the Decatur-Morgan County Chamber of Commerce Tuesday.

The Governor will be proposing such an incentive plan when the Legislature begins its 2008 session in February.

In addition to promoting greater health care coverage, Governor Riley said his proposal would help encourage further job creation.    » read more »

January 14, 2008 -- Mobile, Alabama; Arlington, Virginia, January 14, 2008 – EADS will co-locate the production of the Northrop Grumman KC-30 Tanker platform and the Airbus A330 civilian freighter aircraft at its Mobile, Alabama aerospace center of excellence, resulting in a robust final assembly line that ensures low risk, high efficiency and increased capacity for both military and commercial customers.    » read more »

January 11, 2008 -- MONTGOMERY – Alabama Governor Bob Riley is asking a circuit court judge to let him join other members of the State Board of Education as a defendant in a lawsuit filed by several legislators to stop the Board’s policies that ended double dipping in the two-year college system.    » read more »

January 08, 2008 -- PRATTVILLE – Alabama Governor Bob Riley began his push to increase funding for Alabama’s distance learning initiative at a high school in Prattville today, and tomorrow he will be visiting high schools in Semmes and Gurley.

The tour comes as the Governor prepares the education budget he will present to the Legislature in February. The distance learning initiative – called ACCESS – is working to connect students to new learning opportunities and deserves a funding increase, Governor Riley says.    » read more »

January 02, 2008 -- The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Pfc. Joseph R. Berlin Jr., 21, of Chelsea, Alabama, died Dec. 30 in Baghdad, Iraq, of injuries suffered in a non-combat related incident.

He was assigned to the Special Troops Battalion, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.

The incident is under investigation.

Source: DoD

December 18, 2007 -- TALLAHASSEE – Florida, Georgia and Alabama Governors Charlie Crist, Sonny Perdue, Bob Riley and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne today agreed upon a revised schedule to address the short- and long-term needs of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) and Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa (ACT) river basins. The agreement came during a day-long meeting of the states at the Florida Governor’s Mansion.    » read more »

December 18, 2007 -- MONTGOMERY - Alabama Governor Bob Riley today thanked dozens of volunteers and citizens from across the state for another successful Operation Grateful Heart Toy Drive. More than 6,000 toys were collected that will be distributed to children across the state for Christmas.    » read more »

December 17, 2007 -- TALLAHASSEE – Florida, Georgia and Alabama Governors Charlie Crist, Sonny Perdue, Bob Riley and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne today agreed upon a revised schedule to address the short- and long-term needs of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) and Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa (ACT) river basins. The agreement came during a day-long meeting of the states at the Florida Governor’s Mansion.    » read more »

December 12, 2007 -- MOBILE – Alabama Governor Bob Riley made the case today for his First Class pre-kindergarten program in the same county that landed the largest economic development project in the nation and argued that legislators should view investments in early education the same as they do for industry recruitment.    » read more »

Increases access, maintains high quality standards

December 06, 2007 -- MONTGOMERY -- Alabama Governor Bob Riley today announced details of his plan to significantly expand pre-kindergarten, unveiling a voluntary program that provides greater access to high quality preschool for Alabama’s four-year-olds.    » read more »