A poverty task force offers the Alabama Legislature a road map for what needs to be done to reduce poverty in Alabama, but will lawmakers follow it?
The Birmingham News - al.com - Birmingham,AL,USA, March 2, 2008

State must act to alleviate poverty
The Birmingham News - al.com - Birmingham,AL,USA, March 2, 2008
Representative Todd comments on the work of the Task Force on Poverty which she co-chaired.

City Lawmakers voice frustration over school consolidation plan.

House Poverty Task Force recommends removing sales tax on food. 

Representative Todd named the first recipient of the Lou Wooster Public Health Hero Award. 

Faulty reasoning stalls minimum wage hike
The Decatur Daily - Decatur,AL,USA
Rep. Patricia Todd, D-Birmingham, sponsored the bill to raise the minimum wage to $5.85 in two months, to $6.55 a year later and to $7.25 the following year.

Hillary Clinton: Clinton Campaign Adds New Leaders to LGBT ...
All American Patriots (press release) - Taeby,NA,Sweden, November 14, 2007
Presidential Candidate adds Patricia Todd to her national LGBT Steering Committee.

ALL Kids
House Member Editorial, Monday, October 15, 2007
Representative Patricia Todd’s guest editorial on the Alabama Children’s Health Insurance program—ALL Kids.

Breaking the cycle
The Birmingham News - al.com - Birmingham,AL,USA, October 4, 2007
Patricia Todd, D-Birmingham, sponsored a joint resolution setting up a House-Senate task force to look into the causes of and cures for poverty in Alabama.

Legislators showed courage
Montgomery Advertiser - Montgomery,AL,USA, May 2007
Praise to Rep. Patricia Todd and Rep. Alvin Holmes for their public commitment to adding crimes against homosexuals to Alabama's hate crime law.

Specter of thought control looms in legislation  

Montgomery Advertiser - Montgomery,AL,USA, May 2007
Patricia Todd referred ominously to the hate talk that would precede a hypothetical hate crime against her. In fact, efforts to impose hate speech laws or…

ALABAMA VOICES: Higher wage eases poverty
Montgomery Advertiser - Montgomery,AL,USA
Patricia Todd, D-Birmingham sponsors the Alabama Minimum Wage bill to increase wages and ease the burden of poverty…

State legislation seeks higher minimum wage
Demopolis Times - Demopolis,AL,USA, April 10, 2007
Patricia Todd, D-Birmingham, said Congress hasn’t raised the national minimum wage of $5.15 an hour in 10 years, and it’s time for the Alabama Legislature ...

House committee approves bill to set up constitutional convention
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer - Columbus,GA,USA
"It gives us more time to make sure we are protecting the rights of the people of Alabama," Hammon said. But Rep. Patricia Todd, D-Birmingham…

Committee stalls bill to raise state minimum wage
AL.com - Birmingham,AL,USA
... Alabama's minimum wage would simply be the same as the federal minimum wage. The committee then delayed action by sending the bill by Rep. Patricia Todd ...

Roseanne Under Fire For Gays Are Self Centered Remarks
365Gay.com - USA
The article highlighted her work in the State House of Representatives to establish a state minimum wage in Alabama. "Patricia Todd is very involved in the ...

AP Inverview:  Alabama’s 1^st Openly Gay Legislator Prefers to be Low Key

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Other than a small photograph of Patricia Todd with her partner on a shelf above her desk, there's nothing in Todd's small Statehouse office to indicate she is Alabama's first openly gay legislator.

Birmingham rep wants more data on incentives
Birmingham Business Journal - Birmingham,AL,USA
Patricia Todd, D-Birmingham, said she supports the state's efforts to lure businesses to Alabama. However, she said the current process lacks adequate ...

Faulty reasoning stalls minimum wage hike
The Decatur Daily - Decatur,AL,USA
Rep. Patricia Todd, D-Birmingham, sponsored the bill to raise the minimum wage to $5.85 in two months, to $6.55 a year later and to $7.25 the following year.