Much of this week’s legislative activity focused on in vitro fertilization services in Alabama, but amid the rallies and fast-tracked bills on that issue, the Alabama House passed country of origin labeling for fish and shrimp and the Senate OK’d a state sales tax…
Hot-button, controversial issues dominated debate in the Alabama Legislature this week, while gaming legislation that consumed the first two weeks of the 2024 session stalled once it reached the Alabama Senate. “We’re going to spend some time on it,” said…
Legislation introduced in February would have created a protected class of workers, including retail workers, and allowed those protected workers to recover damages if assaulted while performing their official job duties. HB202 by Rep. Anthony Daniels, D-Huntsville, would have created…
THE WOOD FAMILY OWNS AND OPERATES JBT POWER IN DAPHNE AND SEMMES, EMPLOYING 25 Gregg Wood, a former Marine and Army helicopter pilot, left a corporate chief operating officer position in 2011 to be his own boss. “I’d been the…
Lottery, casinos and sports betting legislation that will require a vote of the people to become law cleared the Alabama House on Thursday. The gaming package, which includes a 7% cut of each lottery ticket sold for retailers, now heads to the…
MONTGOMERY – From Friday, Feb. 23, to Sunday, Feb. 25, Alabama will observe its 13th annual Severe Weather Preparedness Sales Tax Holiday. The Alabama Retail Association encourages Alabamians to restock emergency supplies in homes, workplaces and vehicles during this three-day…
Some members of Alabama’s Joint Study Commission on Grocery Taxation expressed a desire Feb. 12 to find a way to go forward in 2024 with another 1% reduction in the state’s 3% grocery tax. Alabama Arise and Alabama Grocers Association…
Casinos, sports betting, lottery – oh my! A proposal to legalize gaming in Alabama got the most attention in the first week of the Alabama Legislature’s 2024 regular session. By the end of the third legislative day, 242 bills had been introduced,…
DALTON PHARMACY GROUP OPERATES NINE ALABAMA PHARMACIES, INCLUDING ITS 121-YEAR-OLD SLOCOMB LOCATION Twenty-year-old pharmacist Jep Paul “J.P.” Dalton set up shop in downtown Slocomb in 1903 to support his brother’s medical practice. The small Geneva County town, known for its…
In 1950, Taylor Gee drove all over the Southeast selling pants to retailers out of the trunk of his Mercury. People digging through the bins for deals on pants at Taylor’s Leeds warehouse dubbed the business “The Pants Store.” Wholesale…