Legislative finale, playoff baseball: Down in Alabama

There’s one day left in the 2023 Alabama state legislative session. That day will be Tuesday. Late last week we saw Gov. Kay Ivey signing the education and general-fund budgets as well as a measure that gives motorist who owe fines a little more breathing room. And we saw the state legislature give final passage to a bill increasing prison sentences for crimes related to a “criminal enterprise” (they moved away from the word “gang” in that one). They also sent to the governor a capped version of the bill...