I seem to remember a man named Jim Folsom, Jr. promising me an interstate in west Alabama if I voted for him. Well, I voted for him. Where’s my interstate? I know these things take time, but I haven’t even heard a whisper from Little Jim.

I remember saying at the time that the lieutenant governorship was the highest, most powerless office in Alabama. The truth is that the lieutenant governor virtually no formal power to do anything to fund or build an interstate. But hey, I lived in Tuscaloosa. It’s really annoying to have to go through Birmingham to get anywhere else without being stuck behind a logging truck.

I think there’s some people in Sheffield wondering about their railway overpass too. (Actually, they might have gotten their overpass by now for all I know).