Alabama’s October unemployment rate holds steady at 3.1 percent

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Alabama’s October unemployment rate holds steady at 3.1 percent

Alabama Department of Labor Secretary Fitzgerald Washington announced Friday that Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted October unemployment rate is 3.1 percent, unchanged from September, and well below October 2020’s rate of…

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Perry County is the fastest shrinking county in Alabama

Photo credit: The Centersquare U.S. population growth slowed over the last decade to its lowest rate since the Great Depression. The U.S. population is aging rapidly. While baby boomers have…

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Steve Marshall advises Alabama federal contractors not to investigate employees seeking vaccine exemption

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, along with Republican state legislative leaders and the state Personnel Office, have issued an advisory regarding the COVID-19 vaccine mandate…

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Man incarcerated at Staton prison dies after being found unresponsive

A man serving at Staton Correctional Facility in Elmore died last week, the Alabama Department of Corrections confirmed for APR. David Hicks, 35, was found unresponsive by prison staff on…

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Judge orders Texas to suspend new law banning most abortions

– In this Sept. 1, 2021, file photo, women protest against the six-week abortion ban at the Capitol in Austin, Texas. A federal judge on Wednesday, Oct. 6 ordered Texas…

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Opinion | COVID: Doublespeak and gobbledygook

The doublespeak continues. Gov. Kay Ivey (Republican) and U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (Republican) urged Alabamians to get vaccinated last week. They have urged them before. But both oppose vaccine mandates,…

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Terri Sewell to host telephone town hall discussion

Congresswoman Terri Sewell will host a live telephone town hall today at 6:30 PM. The hour-long event includes time for Sewell to take questions directly from…

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Gov. Kay Ivey announces federal funds to hire traveling nurses for hospitals

Governor Kay Ivey on Friday announced the state would reallocate $12.3 million in federal COVID-19 aid to pay for additional travel nurses to aid in Alabama’s struggling hospitals, many of…

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Absentee voting for municipal election ‘slow’ compared to 2017

With the Mobile area still in the grasp of a surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, one might assume that absentee voting would be increasing as the city’s municipal election…

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Montgomery ICU beds filled as Alabama COVID-19 surge worsens

Alabama doctors have issued multiple warnings that the ongoing delta variant surge is limiting hospital capacity even for everyday medical cases. Source link

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