The Birmingham News is doing an outstanding job of running down the story of state legislators, their family and businesses getting paid for work that was never performed, and in most cases not expected to be performed in the two-year college system. It’s about time the cover was blown off the corruption that has been going on for years and it should allow for major restructuring of these types of practices, but given this is hte Alabama Legislature, it may not. I think the State Board of Education, led by the Governor, will push for what changes it can just to rub the legislature’s face in it, if nothing else.

This will be a big story for some time to come.