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...Muscle Shoals: Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and the Rolling Stones have all visited this small town in Alabama to record at Muscle Shoals Sound, where for about $100 an hour "we treat everybody the same," says manager Suzanne Harris...
...Your report on the firing of ALAbama state Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore for his refusal to remove the Ten Commandments statue from his courthouse [Nov. 24]: I would defend Moore's right to read the Bible on the courthouse steps, but citizens do not have the right to put religious monuments of their choice on public property. If the judge truly believed in the law, including the Ten Commandments, he would have explored legal channels for setting up the monument before taking things into his own hands. MARIE EVANS Clayton...
...public life, discretion is no virtue. Judge Moore has been exuberantly defying court orders regarding the Ten Commandments since his early days as a judge in Etowah County when he defended his right to display a homemade rosewood plaque in his courtroom. That crusade helped him get elected as Alabama's chief justice in 2000, so it should have surprised no one when he wheeled the 5,280-lb. monument of the Commandments into the courthouse rotunda in a midnight ceremony and then forced a showdown by refusing to remove...
...expand these programs if you don't have the trained educators," says Stephen Collier, director of the Health Professions Education and Workforce Development program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Nursing schools and, increasingly, training programs for other health professions complain that they cannot hire enough instructors to add new students. (Licensing requirements mandate low student-to-teacher ratios.) Salaries for educators are well below those for clinical practice, and budget cuts at state colleges and universities have prevented them from offering more. "If we don't have educators, we won't have the nurses," says Amanda Engler, spokeswoman...
...same all over again. I said back then, and I'll say it again now: God is the basis of our law and our government." ROY MOORE, Alabama's chief justice, standing by a decision to defy a federal court order to remove a granite monument of the Ten Commandments at the state supreme court. A state ethics judicial panel nevertheless removed him from the bench...