Steve Flowers: Alabama Community College marks 60 Years
The year 1963 was a historic and turbulent year for Alabama. The race issue was the prevalent and commanding issue in southern politics. White Southerners were determined to hold onto segregation and...
View ArticleSteve Flowers: The Shorty Price story
Alabama has had its share of what I call “run for the fun of it” candidates. The most colorful of all these perennial “also ran” candidates was Ralph “Shorty” Price. He ran for governor every time....
View ArticleSteve Flowers: University philanthropists
In the past two to three years, we have had some very generous benefactors make some very magnanimous contributions to their university alma maters in Alabama. One of those philanthropist is Alabama...
View ArticleSteve Flowers: Dr. Furnie Johnston, Pioneer Doctor
In recent years, healthcare has eclipsed agriculture as Dothan’s major industry. Dothan is the medical mecca for the entire Wiregrass, as well as rural northwest Florida and southwest Georgia. It has...
View ArticleSteve Flowers: 2024 elections around the corner
Folks, don’t look now, but our 2024 election year is upon us. Next year is a major year in politics nationwide. Not only does the nation elect a president, but most states also elect their governors...
View ArticleSteve Flowers: Negative ads work and always have
Over the years, many of you have lamented to me and said, “I am so tired of seeing all negative ads with candidates lambasting each other in political campaigns. Why don’t candidates say what they are...
View ArticleSteve Flowers: 60th Anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination
The assassination of John F. Kennedy happened 60 years ago this week. It occurred to me that a good many of you may be too young to remember that horribly sad day of November 22, 1963. Anyone living...
View ArticleSteve Flowers: Career politicians, good or bad?
In recent years, candidates for political office have lambasted, run against, and proclaimed that they were not career politicians. Every television ad for someone who has never held office has...
View ArticleSteve Flowers: Lister Hill, one of Alabama’s greatest U.S. Senators
We had a very distinguished congressional delegation from Alabama during the 30-year span of 1934-1964. The congressmen from the Heart of Dixie appeared to be born to serve in Congress. Their...
View ArticleSteve Flowers: The legend of Senator John Sparkman
In my 2015 book, Of Goats and Governors: Six Decades of Colorful Alabama Political Stories, I have a Chapter entitled “Alabama’s Three Greatest Senators.” I chronicle the lives and accomplishments of...
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