Shelby’s Shakedown Shuffle
(THIS COLUMN IS AN EXCLUSIVE HERE AT QUINHILLYER.COM) by Quin Hillyer Is Alabama’s 80 year-old U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby a “shakedown” artist? State House Speaker Mike Hubbard says so. […]
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Quin Column: Legislature Needs Backbone for Budget
The Louisiana state legislature can fix the state’s budget problem if it acts like big boys and girls, and exercises its basic Constitutional responsibility. The question is, will it? Legislature […]
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LA Gov. Bobby Jindal parsing language to sneak in new taxes
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal appears to be reneging on his pledge not to raise taxes,…although he’s not calling them ‘taxes’. Quin Hillyer chimes in…. Jindal plays semantics on taxes, by […]
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Possums, beavers and gars: Oh my!
State Rep. Chris Pringle works to clean deadwood from the Alabama Code. Good work. And a rather humorous set of examples, if I do say so myself! It starts like […]
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What’s left of the levee lawsuit? by Quin Hillyer
Perfidy and Poison: What’s left of the levee lawsuit?by Quin Hillyer
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EPA oversteps bounds, hurts LA economy
For The Advocate, I write about why an illegal power grab by the Environmental Protection Agency would add to a record of the Obama administration harming Louisiana. Follow the red […]
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Time for Charter Schools in Alabama
In my brand-new column for the al.com papers (Mobile, Birmingham, Huntsville), I applaud state legislative leaders for their plans to push a bill finally allowing Alabama to join the 42 […]
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Standing up for law, the culture, and tradition
In one way or another, almost all of my columns (and blog posts) in recent weeks have involved defenses of longstanding traditions of law and culture. As usual, follow the […]
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Louisiana should tax the rich (with a huge caveat, though!)
Many of my Louisiana conservative friends are less than happy with me today, after my column advocating greater tax equity, meaning less regressivity, in state and local taxes. Granted, federal […]
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Flexibility for Alabama’s Budget
Alabama faces a budget gap of $265 million. Not good, but not awful, Perhaps manageable, if managerial/legislative flexibility were available. Alas, right now it’s not available. But it should be. […]
