Editor’s note: This is a round-up of the day’s major events in Montgomery. Alabama Senate leaders on Thursday talked up a modest tax cut plan, and the House passed a resolution supporting term limits on a relatively quiet day in Montgomery. The Senate met for just a half-hour before adjourning until Tuesday. No votes […]

    Gov. Kay Ivey and a pair of legislators today will unveil plans for statewide regulation of ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft, which currently operate under a hodgepodge of local rules. State Sen. Bobby Singleton (D-Greensboro), Rep. David Faulkner (R-Mountain Brook) and supporters plan an 11 a.m. news conference at the Alabama State […]

  Alabama has made strides in assessing whether the state is getting the biggest bang for its buck with economic incentives designed to lure large development projects, an expert told lawmakers on Wednesday. Josh Goodman, an economic development analyst at the Pew Charitable Trusts, co-authored a report last year examining how states evaluate their economic […]

  If the decennial redistribution of seats in the House of Representatives occurred this year, Alabama would be OK. Unfortunately for the Yellowhammer State, the census figures that will be used to make that determination will not be gathered for another two years. And short- and long-term trends do not bode well for Alabama. The […]

  Alabama Supreme Court Justice Glenn Murdock announced Thursday he will resign effective Jan. 16 to purse “other professional opportunities,” telling Yellowhammer News he is interested in a possible Senate run. Murdock’s letter to Gov. Kay Ivey made no mention of politics. But he has been mentioned as a possible Republican challenger to Sen. Doug […]

  Don’t expect the Legislature to tackle big, long-simmering problems in the legislative session that begins this month. As is typical during years when members of the state House of Representative and Senate are up for re-election, each lawmaker will have an eye on the looming fall campaign. That means the session that begins Tuesday […]

  Failed Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore may have solicited funds for a recount that never happened, but federal election law gives him wide latitude in deciding how to spend it. Paul S. Ryan, vice president for policy and litigation at Common Cause, said Moore could refund that money to the people who gave it. […]

    Defeated Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore late Wednesday filed a complaint seeking to block the formal certification of Democrat Doug Jones’ victory in this month’s special election. The state canvasing board is set to make that victory official today. But Moore filed a complaint in Montgomery County Circuit Court asking a judge to […]

  Alabama runs the nation’s leanest Medicaid program, according to statistics released last week by a federal agency. The annual report by the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission, an arm of Congress, contains 172 pages’ worth of data about the nation’s Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program agencies. But the statistic that jumps […]

  About those polls. On a day when Republican Roy Moore’s faint flicker of hope died — the Alabama secretary of state’s office reported Wednesday that the number of provisional and overseas ballots won’t be nearly enough to overcome his deficit with Democrat Doug Jones in the Senate race — it is worth examining the […]

    The tax cut bill on track for passage today will create 4,632 jobs in Alabama and boost the income of the average middle-income family by more than $519, according to a study released this week. The estimates come from an updated analysis by the Tax Foundation, which projects that the Tax Cuts and […]

  A liberal group founded by former Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander has named Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill to its “Voter Suppression Wall of Shame.” Citing Alabama’s voter identification law and former Gov. Robert Bentley’s decision to close some driver’s license offices, Let America Vote accuses Merrill of trying to block black […]

    Democrat Doug Jones just scored a big victory for himself and his party, but even before he takes the oath of office and joins the Senate, he will have a long line of Republican challengers waiting in the wings. Jones benefited from the checkered history and sexual-abuse allegations dogging Republican candidate Roy Moore. […]

    Tuesday’s special election victory by Democrat Doug Jones was dramatic — no doubt about it. Barring a successful recount, he will become the first Democrat to represent Alabama in the Senate in nearly a quarter century. Here are the six most notable takeaways from an election that capped a very strange year in […]

    Democrat Doug Jones has a path to victory against Republican Roy Moore on Tuesday in Alabama’s special election for the Senate — the same one Democrat Robert Vance nearly rode to victory against him five years ago. All but forgotten now, Moore’s 2012 race for chief justice of Alabama Supreme Court stumbled across […]

  If you commute to work in Alabama, chances are you are in a car. No state in the country has a smaller share of commuters using public transportation. According to estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau, just .4 percent of the state’s workers 16 and older use public transportation, tied with Mississippi […]

    Roy Moore is not in the Supreme Court chambers today as the justices weigh whether a Colorado baker had the right to say “no” to a gay couple, but the Alabama Senate candidate’s fingerprints will be on the debate, nonetheless. The former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice’s private legal group, the Foundation for […]

    There has been much chatter in Washington that the Senate might expel Roy Moore or even refuse to seat him at all if he wins this month’s special election in Alabama, but that would be harder than many realize. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) raised the issue once again this week, telling […]

    Sexual misconduct allegations against Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore have raised the very real possibility that Democrat Doug Jones could win next month’s special election, which would produce a rarity in Alabama politics — a split Senate delegation. How rare? According to research by University of Minnesota political scientist Eric Ostermeier, no other […]

  After Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey indicated that she believed Roy Moore’s accusers but would vote for him anyway, the reaction was swift, severe and predictable. Meredith Cummings, A University of Alabama journalism instructor and AL.com blogger, called it a “special kind of betrayal” of women. The website’s popular cartoonist, J.D. Crowe, drew the governor […]

    Roy Stewart Moore was an obscure state judge in Etowah County in 1995 and probably would have stayed that way if not for an assist from an unlikely source — the American Civil Liberties Union. Moore’s courtroom display of a wooden plaque of the Ten Commandments sparked a complaint by an attorney representing […]

    The tax reform bill passed Thursday by the U.S. House of Representatives would help Alabama — but not by as much as most other states. That is the conclusion of the Washington-based Tax Foundation, which analyzed the macro effects of the major provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and then applied […]

    Of all the national Republicans expressing doubts about Roy Moore’s defense of allegations of child sexual abuse, perhaps the most stinging came Tuesday from the man who held the Senate seat he hopes to claim. Jeff Sessions, whose resignation to become U.S. attorney general triggered the special election in which Moore is running […]

  A prominent Alabama Republican facing a tough election weeks away gets hit with sexual misconduct allegations that threaten to derail his campaign. Roy Moore, 2017? Yes, but also Steve Windom, 1998. Political observers scratching their heads over why some Alabama voters would not automatically believe allegations in The Washington Post this week that Senate […]