Last week, political columnist and commentator Steve Flowers wrote in this newspaper about the state’s “education governor,” Charles Henderson of Pike County.
Without Governor Henderson, it is doubtful that schools in Alabama would exist at all or be what they are - certainly, not in Troy or the surrounding area.
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