The Anniston Star's Patrick McCreless takes a look at Gov. Robert Bentley's Commission on Improving State Government, which was designed to recommend ways to trim state spending without significant reduction in state services.

What's missing on the board? Anybody who represents the vast majority of people who receive state services. Education makes up the bulk of the state budget, but educators aren't represented. Neither are children's advocacy groups.

There's no seat on the board for groups that represent the poor. Instead, the board consists largely of CEOs. And it's largely white, and male.

From The Anniston Star -- Diversity lacking in governor's advisory commission