Posts by Austen Shipley — Page 79
Friday, Governor Kay Ivey said that Alabama’s preliminary,seasonally adjusted December unemployment rate is 2.8%. This number is up from the month of November’s rate of 2.7%. Last December’s rate of 3.1% was much higher than this years.
Last fiscal year 90% of Alabama inmates were denied parole, according to the Associated Press.
Recently, at an American Meteorological Society meeting, members discussed the use of hyperbole in describing various weather events.
Congressman Dale Strong, who represents north Alabama’s 5th Congressional District, spoke to members of the media Thursday to discuss his new position in Washington D.C.
Today, Governor Kay Ivey issued a limited state of emergency over the Moody landfill fire.
On Wednesday, in Montgomery, Governor Kay Ivey made good on her promise to begin focusing immediately on education in Alabama.
Lt. Governor Will Ainsworth, along with other state officials, was sworn in on Monday. It will be Ainsworth’s second term in office.
A legal defense fund for two Wetumpka women convicted of feeding and trapping stray cats in order to fix them has topped over $80,000.
Yesterday in Montgomery, Governor Kay Ivey and other officials throughout the state were sworn into office at the state capitol building.
The University of Montevallo has transitioned to gender-neutral bathrooms on its campus. According to a university affiliated social media site, under the profile name “um.spectrum”, it was announced that in December of 2022 a university wide resolution was passed that allowed for gender-neutral bathrooms on campus.
For the second year in a row the Regional Workforce Development Rankings have placed Alabama as the number one state in the region.
Alabama Tourism Director and author Lee Sentell discusses his new book, “The Official United States Civil Rights Trail: What Happened Here Changed the World"
State Rep. Randall Shedd (Fairview) will become the new House Majority Whip for the Alabama House of Representatives.
Senator Arthur Orr (Decatur), chairman of the Senate education budget committee, will be filing a bill that will pay principals and assistant principals more and it will also aid in professional development for the administrators.
Innovate Alabama will be opening a second round of the Innovate Alabama Supplemental Grant Program on Tuesday, January 17th.
On January 16th, Alabama Secretary of State, John Merrill will begin a new position outside of politics.
State Representative Kenneth Paschal (R-Pelham) is seeking to preserve and protect parental rights.
Philip Morris International (PMI), a large tobacco and nicotine products company will be expanding throughout the country. The company is placing particular interest in Alabama during this expansion, because of the high rate of purchase for nicotine products within the state.
CollegeCounts, Alabama’s 529 college savings fund, will be awarding scholarships in the amount of $4,000 for four years to students who attend a four year institution and $2,000 for two years for students enrolled in a two year college.
Alabama’s active-duty military, veterans, and their families will now have access to thirty resource workshops across the state because of a sponsorship from the Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils ( Alabama RC&D).
Daniel and Carla Trantham, of Calhoun County, Alabama, were named the nation’s top young farm family at the American Farm Bureau Federal Convention in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Tuesday.
Recently, three U.S. Senators visited the U.S.-Mexico Border to meet with leaders from the National Border Patrol Union and officials representing the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Alabama Supreme Court Justice Sarah Stewart announced Tuesday that she will be running for the position of Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court.
Hoda Muthana, a legal Alabamian, left the United States to join the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2014.