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By John Sloan, Interim Chair Baldwin County Democrats Last Tuesday night, I sat in the Baldwin County elections headquarters in Bay Minette and watched the returns come in from the primary runoff. I wish I could say I felt encouraged. Across 63 precincts, only 1,202 Democratic ballots were cast in the U.S. Senate runoff. Let that sit for a moment: in a county with more than 210,000 registered voters, the Democrats who showed up to help choose our party’s Senate nominee woul

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by John Sloan, BCD Interim Chair During my 30-year-career as a professor at UAB, I regularly taught a seminar to junior, senior, and master’s level criminal justice students entitled “The Death Penalty in America.” The course included analysis of the historical, moral, legal, and practical aspects of capital punishment, as well as predictions about its future. Sadly, Alabama has a less than stellar record when it comes to state sanctioned killing and remains an outlier not on

Join Eastern Shore Dems a the Fairhope Unitarian Fellowship on June 10th for a free showing of Sallie's Ashes.