Tax preparers fighting bill
Huntsville Times – Feb. 24
…Stephen Black, director of the University of Alabama’s Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility, said Monday after passage of the bill in the Senate, “a siren went off around the predatory lending and commercial tax prep world.” Black’s center and a group of volunteer students helped do the undercover research for the bill, sponsored in the Senate by Sen. Quinton Ross, D-Montgomery. A team of seven lobbyists were hired to represent tax preparer ‘Mo Money Taxes and payday lenders in Alabama, said Black…
‘Henry V’ comes to UA’s Marian Gallaway Theatre
Tuscaloosa News – Feb. 24
Photo: Actors Lawson Hangartner, left, and Jake Boyd rehearse for the for the production of Henry V in the Marian Galloway Theatre in Rowand-Johnson Hall on the University of Alabama campus…
To put the audience right into Shakespeare’s world, director Seth Panitch and set designer Rick Miller designed a round set with pop-up furniture and sparse decor. Prince Hal’s rise to greatness, through the Battle of Agincourt and famed St. Crispin’s Day speech — “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers” — will unfold in the dead center of the room…
Langford speaks at UA
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – Feb. 23
Tonight, the mayor of Birmingham, who’s also under federal indictment, will be a guest speaker on the University of Alabama campus…will deliver a lecture at an event sponsored by the University of Alabama’s Capstone Association of Black Journalist call “Race, Politics and the Media in the Age of Obama.”…