Senate Democrats say they'll use "all the tools available" to slow down Republican plans as the Alabama Legislature begins the last day of its session. Both Houses of the Alabama Legislature are scheduled to meet at 9 a.m. for the last day of the 2013 Legislative session.

Gov. Robert Bentley's office announced today that the governor would seek an executive amendment that would put a two-year hold on tax credits and scholarships created under the Alabama Accountability Act, which the Legislature passed in February.

Geni Certain’s new book is a friendly, more-or-less official biography of Glen Browder, a conservative Democrat who represented Calhoun County and its neighbors in Congress through George H.W. Bush’s administration and Bill Clinton’s first term.

The Alabama Senate passed a bill today changing several provisions in the Alabama Accountability Act, but declined to place an income cap on eligibility for the act's much-debated school tax credits.

The Alabama Senate voted 20-1 to today to pass a bill that would allow the Weaver City Council to approve Sunday alcohol sales within city limits.

A bill containing several changes to the Accountability Act, proposed by Sen. Del Marsh, R-Anniston, was all but dead Wednesday, after it stalled in the Senate on Tuesday. Marsh and other senators said Tuesday was the last day a contested bill could pass the Senate. Senators could re-introduce those changes as amendments to a bill that passed the House Tuesday, but Marsh said he didn't expect many changes.

The Anniston Ecotourism Beverage Bill, which gives the Anniston City Council the power to approve alcohol sales on Sundays, was signed by Gov. Robert Bentley Tuesday. Anniston's mayor says the City Council will probably vote on a Sunday sales proposal in June.