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Valley Times-News: Local shoppers and community leaders react to the passage of grocery tax reduction The Valley Times-News highlighted Arise's advocacy in reducing Alabama's grocery tax. Within the first year of the reduction, the average Alabama family of four may save about $150.  |
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CBS 42, Birmingham: Alabama grocery tax cut bill could open door for local tax reductions “For this year, it’s like you’re going to save $150 on groceries,” Arise's Robyn Hyden told CBS 42. “Next year it will be $300, and hopefully we can keep going until you’re saving a full two weeks’ worth of food.” Hyden also mentioned the future of the grocery tax in Alabama. “We really feel like this is just the first step,” she said. “We’d like to cut the full 4% and do it responsibly,” |
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Public News Service: Report: Expanding Medicaid means better maternal health care in AL A new report by Georgetown University's Center for Children and Families found that expanding Medicaid in Alabama would improve maternal health. "We know that there's been a loss of services between 1980 and 2019," Arise's Debbie Smith told the Public News Service. "In a lot of rural areas in the state, where there's not even an OB/GYN, Medicaid expansion could help improve finances in those areas to hopefully keep those places open." We urge Gov. Kay Ivey and legislators to make Alabama a better place for parents and babies by expanding Medicaid.  Further reading: Alabama Arise Alabama Political Reporter Yellowhammer News |
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New York Times: Supreme Court ruling on voting rights could resound across the South “Their reasons and their arguments were sound to me,” Arise's Robyn Hyden said of the recent Supreme Court decision that upheld key provisions of the Voting Rights Act. The ruling will force the Alabama Legislature to draw new congressional district maps in a special session in July. |
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| "Arise members made over 10,000 contacts with lawmakers during the session advocating for several issues including voting rights, the grocery tax cut, criminal justice reform and more," the Alabama Political Reporter reports on Arise's advocacy efforts in 2023. |
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Alabama Public Radio: Alabama to resume executions in July, advocates push back “Using an untested method of execution is just one of many reasons why I think as a state we need to slow down and look at how we’re executing people,” Arise's Mike Nicholson said. “It just feels like [Alabama] is more interested in executing people than making sure we’re doing it in a humane and just way.” |
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Alabama Reflector: Criminal justice reform advocates see mixed results in Alabama Legislature “That has been a longtime goal of Alabama Arise, to reform the death penalty,” Arise's Mike Nicholson told the Alabama Reflector. “Legislation, typically that reforms the death penalty, is not even brought up in committee, so having that bill that would have required unanimous jury verdicts, as well as making judicial override retroactive, to have that brought up in committee is a big step for that legislation.” |
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AL.com: More Alabama schools will offer free lunch and breakfast to students. See where. “I have not heard a word of opposition against CEP from anyone at the Legislature,” Arise's Carol Gundlach told AL.com. “You even see in some very Republican areas of the state, they’ve fully implemented CEP and every major city in Alabama has implemented it in every school they possibly could, so I think it’s widely popular.” |
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