EDITORIAL: Ticket perks for the privileged January 14, 2011 By John Peck, The Huntsville Times HUNTSVILLE, Ala. _ Unless you’ve been on Mars, everyone knows how scarce tickets were to Monday’s BCS national title game between Auburn and Oregon. Tickets were available, but at a very premium price. Even nosebleed seats were $1,500 apiece. Other...
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Holmes, other legislators, turn down free tickets to Iron Bowl from UA November 09, 2010 by Bob Lowry MONTGOMERY – Rep. Alvin Holmes, D-Montgomery, said today he won’t accept tickets to this year’s Iron Bowl game in Tuscaloosa, and wants them to go to wounded veterans. Holmes, the longest serving member of the Legislature,...
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EDITORIAL: Iron Bowl perks for lawmakers must end Published: Sunday, October 03, 2010, 8:30 AM John Peck, The Huntsville Times HUNTSVILLE, Ala. _ Jim Metrock is not a household name in Alabama – unless it’s brought up in the Alabama Statehouse. The Birmingham-area charity activist is on a crusade to stop the...
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