Joyce Bigbee may be gone, but she is certainly not forgotten.

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JOYCE BIGBEE MAY BE GONE, BUT SHE IS CERTAINLY NOT FORGOTTEN. The former director of the Alabama Legislative Fiscal Office retired at the end of 2011, bringing to a close a 33-year career at the agency. "Joyce set the gold standard in Alabama for how to manage a team and operate a state agency," House Speaker Mike Hubbard said sat the time. Bigbee was "impervious to partisan politics" in her focus to present the facts about the state's fiscal conditions in good times and bad. In...