Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard, R-Auburn, says Rep. Steve Clouse, R-Ozark, will serve as the chairman of the Ways And Means General Fund Committee after the resignation of Rep. Jim Barton, R-Mobile, was announced on Wednesday. Hubbard says it was an obvious choice because Clouse was the co-chairman of the committee during the 2013 […]

Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange and Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard are taking a stand — or in this case bending a knee — in support of legislative prayer. Strange is joined by 22 other attorneys general from across the country in a brief (Town of Greece, N.Y. V. Galloway) asking the U.S. Supreme […]

The Auburn family may be excited for the upcoming football season with new head coach Gus Malzahn, but students have an even better reason to yell, “War Eagle” this semester: they were just named “most conservative student body” in the country by Princeton Review. The Princeton Review surveyed hundreds of thousands of student at 378 […]

Gov. Robert Bentley ceremonially signed three bills into law Monday in the Old House Chambers of the State Capitol to decrease the abuse of prescription drugs in Alabama. The prescription drug monitoring bill revises regulation language for the Board of Medical Examiners allowing them to better police the use of a monitoring program that will […]

Gov. Robert Bentley issued a formal proclamation over the weekend calling for a special election in Alabama’s First Congressional District. In the proclamation, Bentley laid out an election timeline, which was approved by U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson of the Middle District of Alabama. The special election primary will be held Tuesday, September 24, 2013. If a special election […]

Republican State Representative Randy Davis, R-Daphne, says he will not run for the congressional seat left vacant by U.S. Republican Jo Bonner of Mobile. Davis announced that he will seek re-election for his current seat in the Alabama Legislature representing Baldwin and Mobile counties. Rep. Davis was elected to the Alabama Legislature in 2002 and […]