Arise Daily News Digest 12-31-2012

AL.COM  - Alabama funding may hinder NRA plan for school guards,

AL.COM  - GOP governors walk balance beam on health law.

AL.COM  - Deal on farm bill extension could prevent doubling of milk prices.

AL.COM  - Houston County facing backlog of 300 drug cases due to closure of satellite crime lab.

AL.COM  - Alabama Education Association asks Legislature to hike teacher pay by 10 percent over two years.

ALABAMA POLITICAL REPORTER  - Top Ten Political Stories 2012

(MOBILE) PRESS-REGISTER  - Contributor Ed Aikens:  A mental healthcare professional's perspective on gun laws.

DECATUR DAILY  – The Decatur Daily:  Division and unity.

ANNISTON STAR  – The Anniston Star:  Teaching and shooting:  School superintendents shouldn’t be asked to decide which teachers should be armed.

MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER  - Top stories in Alabama during 2012.

MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER  - Environmental practices training the focus of collaboration.

MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER  - Contributor Darius Ross:  Minimum wage must rise in 2013.

WASHINGTON POST  - Senate negotiators yet to reach ‘fiscal cliff’ deal as clock winds down.

WASHINGTON POST  - From partisan perspective, ‘cliff’ may not be that scary.

WASHINGTON POST  – The Fix:  As ‘fiscal cliff’ looms, Republicans have no political incentive to make deal with Obama.

WASHINGTON POST  -Columnist E. J. Dionne:  Here’s to a kinder, gentler year.

WASHINGTON POST  - Contributor Aaron Kupchik:  The flaws in the NRA’s school-security proposal.

WASHINGTON POST  - NRA fingerprints in landmark health-care law.

NEW YORK TIMES  - Experts Forecast the Cost of Failure to Compromise

NEW YORK TIMES  - Settlement Expected on Past Abuses in Home Loans

NEW YORK TIMES  – Columnist Bill Keller:  Babes in Arms

NEW YORK TIMES  – The New York Times:  A Broken System for Tracking Guns

NEW YORK TIMES  – Columnist Paul Krugman:  Brewing Up Confusion