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In 2017, the Republican leadership in the state legislature had a choice between good public policy or self-serving politics.
Pushed most directly by Sen. Len Fasano of North Haven, who that year shared leadership with Democratic Sen. Martin Looney of New Haven in a Senate split 18-18, the Republicans chose good public policy.
The state had been a fiscal mess forever, it seemed, confronting repeated projected deficits. The Republicans, so close to gaining control of the legislature Democrats held the House by only a few votes could have let the Democrats own the problems. A politically wounded Gov. Dannel P. Malloy led the Democrats.
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Birmingham: The mayors of at least three Alabama cities, including heavily populated Birmingham, have been diagnosed with COVID-19 as the illness spreads rapidly across the state following the holidays. The city of Birmingham said Mayor Randall Woodfin was admitted to a hospital with COVID-19 pneumonia Monday, five days after announcing he tested positive for the new coronavirus. Decatur Mayor Tab Bowling said he was quarantining at home after testing positive for the virus, and the city of Auburn said Mayor Ron Anders was in quarantine after testing positive. Bowling told the Decatur Daily he felt guilty about participating in holiday family gatherings with his adult children and their families over the holidays. Alabama on Monday hit a new high for the number of COVID-19 patients in state hospitals with more than 3,000 ho