Still Time to Qualify for City Elections

You may love your current city government, but you may hate it. If the latter is the case, don't complain there are no fit candidates. What are you waiting for?

One may register to run for mayor until July 22nd. Registration for city council members ends July 23rd. (Don't ask us why the one day difference. We have no idea.)

Which cities need shaking up? In reverse order of need: Tuscumbia, Sheffield, Florence, Muscle Shoals.

Why is the City of Florence second on the list? No, we can't hold the council members responsible for the recent hacking debacle. We can hold them responsible for underfunding the animal shelter while tossing our tax dollars away to the less than holy Salvationist Church...for refusing to work with Room at the Table (at least one of them)...for being unresponsive to communications from concerned citizens!

For those making excuses concerning the erroneous past due notices from Florence Utilities, we make two points:

1. Someone had to have pressed the key to initiate the notices, realizing that many were in error.

2. Someone had to have taken these notices to the post office.

In other words...someone at Florence Utilities or the city IT department didn't care. Think about that...

Standing By & Ready to Biiiiite!

No Postponement for Municipal Elections

The Alabama League of Municipalities has decided not to postpone the August 25th city elections. Qualifying ends in July, giving local candidates one short month to campaign. 

The towns of Sheffield and Muscle Shoals will be electing first time mayors, while in Florence, Steve Holt has one currently announced challenger for his office. Let's hope things don't get as heated as March's Lauderdale primary.

Money is very tight for many right now. Have you applied for unemployment and been met with vague answers or no answers at all? Tell us about it. 

Apparently the state's system is overloaded to the point of failure. Do we have anything in Montgomery that works?