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Free State Foundation President Randolph May criticized Alabama...

Free State Foundation President Randolph May criticized Alabama Monday for requiring Lifeline subscribers in the state to pay the state’s 911 service fee, which he said should be “jettisoned” one way or another. “It just doesn’t make sense to grant…

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certified low-income consumers a $9.25 subsidy on the one hand, and then make those same customers pay a $1.75 fee on the other,” he said in a blog post (http://bit.ly/1o7JkUC), referring to our report that TracFone has filed a lawsuit against the Alabama 911 Board that challenges the board’s authority to extend the 911 fee to Lifeline subscribers. The National Grange and six other groups have also lobbied against the law (CD Aug 4 p7).