Representative Allen West is the featured speaker at next weekend’s ALGOP Summer Dinner. Yesterday, a new West ad titled “Just Getting Started” hit the web. It’s already getting a lot of reaction from both the left and the right as he continues to elevate his national profile. The ad is below. For more information on […]

The Yellowhammer Local Leader 20 is a collection of 20 of Alabama’s brightest local leaders. The criteria for making this list was fairly broad. Some members of the LL20 are up-and-coming elected officials who will likely go on to higher office in the future. Other members of the list are grassroots leaders who organize activists […]

The Yellowhammer Local Leader 20 is a collection of 20 of Alabama’s brightest local leaders. The criteria for making this list was fairly broad. Some members of the LL20 are up-and-coming elected officials who will likely go on to higher office in the future. Other members of the list are grassroots leaders who organize activists […]

(Washington, DC) – The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), which focuses on constitutional law, announced today it is providing legal representation to a top conservative blogger and his organization that represents many other bloggers who are facing threats and intimidation tactics by those opposed to their viewpoint. “Free speech is under attack,” said […]

MONTGOMERY – Armed with a new law restricting the protests of funerals of fallen soldiers and other victims, Alabama lawmakers and Governor Bentley today sent a strong message to any hate groups that would show such disrespect: stay out of Alabama. Governor Bentley today held a ceremonial signing of House Bill 238, sponsored by Rep. […]

“Rumors and Rumblings” is a weekly feature that runs each Wednesday. It includes short nuggets of information that we glean from conversations throughout the week. Have a tip? Send it here. 1. A diverse group of interest groups are rumored to be considering a public “coming out” against the Sept. 18 referendum that was a […]

From the Office of the Governor MONTGOMERY – Governor Robert Bentley on Tuesday welcomed Donald Tong, Commissioner of Hong Kong, to Alabama. In a meeting at the State Capitol, Governor Bentley, Commissioner Tong, and business leaders discussed Alabama’s interest in attracting new investment in the state and the availability of skilled workers for new jobs […]

This will be the last “Hate Mail of the Week” for a while. Hate Mail has been, without a doubt, Yellowhammer’s most popular weekly feature — but I’ve decided to give it a rest for a while and possibly resurrect it in the future when the timing feels right. Tuesdays will now be home to […]

Earlier this year, Yellowhammer released our inaugural “Power & Influence 40,” a list of the 40 most powerful and influential people in Alabama politics. We also released a list of 8 “Power & Influence Up and Comers.” This list included 8 individuals who Yellowhammer believes could be the next generation of leaders for the state. […]

“Best and Worst Week in Montgomery” is a weekly feature on Yellowhammer Politics in which we recognize the people or organizations who had the BEST week or WORST week in town. This was a fairly slow week in Montgomery. The atmosphere in the usual lunch hotspots was decidedly more casual and the pace slowed to […]

A couple of weeks ago, former State Sen. Roy Smith invited me to speak at his monthly Etowah County GOP breakfast. I had a great time with Sen. Smith, Rep. Blaine Galliher, Sen. Phil Williams, and the rest of the Etowah crew — but 93-year-old former Congressman Jim Martin really stole the show when he […]

From the Office of the Governor: MONTGOMERY – Governor Robert Bentley on Thursday announced 105 road and bridge improvement projects that will now be able to move forward as part of the first round of funding for ATRIP – the Alabama Transportation Rehabilitation and Improvement Program. ATRIP is the largest road and bridge improvement program […]

When Governor Bentley and the new GOP-led legislature took the reigns together in January of 2011, Alabama’s unemployment rate was higher than the national average. Alabama’s unemployment rate sat at 9.3% while the national rate was 9.1%. Since then, Alabama has consistently outperformed the country as a whole. A clear contrast has emerged between the […]

“Rumors and Rumblings” is a weekly feature that runs each Wednesday. It includes short nuggets of information that we glean from conversations throughout the week. Have a tip? Send it here. 1. Lowell Barron served as Mayor of Fyffe, AL from 1968 until being elected to the Alabama Senate in 1982. He rose to be […]

Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard will join national business and political leaders next week as a featured panelist at Congressman Tim Scott’s Encouraging Entrepreneurship Conference. Steve Forbes, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Domino’s Pizza CEO Patrick Doyle, and House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp are a few of the other notable speakers on the […]

This week’s “Rumors & Rumblings” are coming to you a day late because we were digging around for a little more info on a couple of rumors. Have a tip? Send it here. 1. The Mobile Bay area is buzzing with the idea of Republican State Representative Randy Davis running for Mayor of Daphne. Davis […]

Progress in the Senate hit a brick wall on Monday evening as Democrats threw a hissy fit over…well… being in the minority. Senate Republicans allowed Democrats to offer substitute redistricting maps and brought each subsitute up for a vote rather than tabling them. They did not have to do this as they had plenty of […]

via Buzzfeed Artur Davis, the former Democratic congressman from Alabama, is considering running for a House seat in Virginia as a Republican, according to a source close to Davis, who ran a near-miss campaign [editor’s note: lol] for governor of Alabama in 2010. Davis is toying with the idea of challenging Democrat Gerry Connolly’s for […]

“Hate Mail of the Week” is a weekly feature on Yellowhammer Politics in which some of the hate mail submitted through our contact page is published exactly as it was received. The only edits made are to remove expletives — this is a family show, after all. If you feel like you hate this site, […]

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – U.S. Representative Martha Roby is presently on her way back from Afghanistan today, where she spent time with U.S. military forces in and around Kabul and Kandahar. Roby led a Congressional Delegation (CODEL) of five House members overseas to observe U.S. military operations, receive briefings about NATO activities, and evaluate the contributions, […]

This week Yellowhammer will have a series of five articles that take a look back at the 2012 regular session. “AEA Still a Threat” is article #1 in our “Session in Review” series. The 2012 has been a year of ups and downs for the Alabama Education Association. After the shellacking they took in the […]

MONTGOMERY – Governor Robert Bentley on Friday signed House Bill 658, a bill designed to simplify and clarify Alabama’s existing immigration law, commonly known as House Bill 56. “We needed to make House Bill 56 better. And over the course of the legislative session, we did that,” Governor Bentley said. “There is substantial progress in […]

“Best and Worst Week in Montgomery” is a weekly feature on Yellowhammer Politics in which we recognize the people or organizations who had the BEST week or WORST week in town. You can view last week’s edition here. If you would like to nominate someone for this feature in the future, send us an email […]