Darrio Melton: Poor leadership is wasting time and taxpayers' dollars

  I would start this piece by talking about how the Alabama Legislature finally adjourned for 2016, but the past few years have shown that adjourning is really just an intermission in the legislative process.

  Over the past few years, the regular session has simply been "part one" of the Republican leadership's circus, because we know we're always coming back for at least one special session to finish what wasn't accomplished the first time.

  Despite the super-majority's ability to bring bills up out of order and set the agenda for each day of the session, remarkably little gets done during the regular session, and this past session was no different.