Entries categorized as ‘Alabama (Entries Through 2005)’
State keeps snakehead fish away
Finally, a local angle! Alabama conservation officers discovered the importation of 200 Dreaded Chinese Snakehead Walking Fish back in November. 24 pet store owners faced the oh-so-stiff fine of $50 for selling them; I can’t tell if anyone faced penalties for bringing them into the state illegally. Alabama is a pretty river-intensive state, and there’s a significant sport-fishing industry, so they were kind of concerned about the possibility of a ravenous predator eating all the bass.
Categories: Alabama (Entries Through 2005) · Environment · Paleoichthypundit
Alabama Governor’s plans for Constitutional Convention
Gov. Don Siegelman has outlined his plans for a citizens constitutional convention in which current legislators and lobbyists would have little or no say in the process.
GASP! The lobbyists and legislators were predictably upset.
The current Alabama state constitution is a nightmare. It has to be amended to allow routine changes in the law, for one thing. It’s a Jim Crow-era document, and large portions of it have been declared unconstitutional. The whole thing needs badly to be scrapped.
I’d love to see this happen. I’m sure anything too awful (ARTICLE XLII: The Earth is flat) will get struck down federally anyway.
Categories: Alabama (Entries Through 2005)
