Not every county has a beach or a Space and Rocket Center or a speedway, ... We're putting a spotlight on these isolated areas of recreation. With outdoor recreation, you have to know where you're going. We are using this to try to connect the dots.

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Labor Day weekend is not as important from an economic standpoint as it used to be.

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This birding tail is one of the reasons the governor and I decided that 2006 would be the year of outdoors Alabama.

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In the past few years, we have seen an increase in international tourism to civil rights sites, ... I think Nelson Mandela's comments about the importance of Rosa Parks has helped make civil rights sites here international sites of interest.

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There is the misperception that all of coastal Alabama suffered the same type of damage that impacted Mississippi, and that's not the case.

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I attended last year's festival and was blown away.

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We know a lot of people have put their Labor Day plans on hold.

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Very much the same thing.

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