Heads and tales: Letting it all hang out
By Wade Kwon
No nudes is bad nudes (or, Show us your conTrITion): The law has been on the books for years, but rarely enforced. Sigh. Why now?
• Alabama ABC to Begin Enforcing Topless Dancing Ban [AP]
The price of winning: “The Birmingham City Council made provisions [Tuesday] to celebrate newly elected city leaders on the same day that voters decided who those leaders would be. The council approved $12,000 for inaugural activities and named the Metropolitan Development Board as the fiscal agent for planning. “
• Birmingham City Council OKs inaugural funds for new leaders [Birmingham News]
The check is in the mail, but the mailbox is in the Gulf: “Total insured losses caused by Katrina in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama are about $34 billion, according to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, which has more than 1,000 members. The Louisiana Department of Insurance has received 1,367 consumer complaints since the storm concerning adjusters not showing up, an inability to reach insurers and insufficient settlements.”
• Hurricane Survivors Wait for Insurers [AP]
Can’t solve the problem by throwing Methodists at it: Baptists served 22,000 meals in two days to hurricane survivors in Florida.
• Alabama Baptists respond to Wilma’s devastation [Alabama Baptist]
Also:
- Alabama Legislature accidentally meets in private after door jams shut
- Local TV news crimestopper unit mugged in time for sweeps
- Hoover High football team signs deal with C-SPAN, Weather Channel
Thursday, November 3, 2005, 2:33 pm
I hate almost every part of our government in this state.
Who runs the ABC and who’s decision was it to begin enforcing this law?
Thursday, November 3, 2005, 4:11 pm
Former state GOP leader and Montgomery mayor Emory Folmar runs the ABC. I suspect the decision is part of the lovely return to prudishness brought about by that hussy, Janet Jackson.
It’s amazing that the government here is involved in, of all things, liquor sales. As Ned Flanders would say, the government isn’t fit to run anything, except telling women what to do with their bodies.