WASHINGTON — Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), the country’s leading anti-tax group, on Monday criticized Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley for proposing the elimination of certain state income tax deductions as a solution for the state’s budget woes. “Enacting legislation that burdens taxpayers with higher taxes and fees to fuel exorbitant state spending, goes against his […]

http://youtu.be/-zQiOgaYqbA (Video above: Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) interviewed on America’s News HQ on Fox News) WASHINGTON — Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) over the weekend continued his relentless assault on the President’s executive actions on immigration, asserting that they are an attack on American workers. “We don’t have enough jobs for Americans,” Sessions said on Fox […]

WASHINGTON — Alabama Congressman Mike Rogers (R-AL3) on Monday slammed Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Cal.), current chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, for her effort to drastically reduce the United States’ stockpile of nuclear weapons, saying it shows a “disregard for reality.” In an op-ed published last week in the Washington Post, Feinstein argued that nuclear […]

(Video Above: An ABC 33/40 report on atheists trying to hijack the Piedmont, Ala., Christmas parade) PIEDMONT, Ala. — A group of out-of-state atheist tried to keep an east Alabama town from celebrating the birth of Christ in their Christmas parade. It didn’t work. The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) threatened Piedmont, Ala., with a […]

“Alligators,” ‘East Virginia,” “Graceland.” Those are just a few of the names that Brits assigned to Alabama when given a blank map of the United States. For the second straight year, Buzzfeed asked its London staff to label all 50 states, and the results are a bit of a mixed bag, especially when it comes […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) will be the keynote speaker at The Alabama Republican Party Victory Celebration and Winter Dinner in Montgomery on Feb. 20, 2015. Paul, a libertarian-leaning ophthalmologist who was elected to the Senate in the Tea Party wave of 2010, is widely believed to be preparing to run for […]

Alabama has one of the “worst run” state governments in the country, according 24/7 Wall St., a financial news and opinion website. But there are also some positive economic indicators that the state can build on going forward. The Yellowhammer State ranked 41st in a recent study titled “The Best and Worst Run States in […]

Two of my favorite Auburn guys @GregRobinson79 and @TreMason looking good in Crimson. #ironbowlwagers pic.twitter.com/p8o1bzfQ7U — Barrett Jones (@BarrettAJones) December 5, 2014 Former University of Alabama offensive lineman and current St. Louis Ram Barrett Jones decided to make an Iron Bowl wager this year with his current NFL teammates and former Auburn standouts Tre Mason […]

“Where in the country is the weather truly the most unpredictable?” That’s the question the statistical wizards at FiveThirtyEight set out to answer this week, and what they found will probably not come as a surprise to most Alabamians: our weather is wild. Birmingham, Alabama, for instance, has the seventh most unpredictable weather of the […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s7PmiIPvEU (Video above: Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) speaks on the Senate floor urging Congress to block funds for Obama’s “illegal amnesty hiring spree.”) WASHINGTON — Executive branch agencies are already pushing forward with implementing President Obama’s immigration orders, which circumvented Congress to instantly shield roughly 5 million illegal immigrants from deportation. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration […]

(Video above: Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-AL1) grills a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration official during a Congressional hearing Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014.) Samuel D. Rauch III is the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the government agency that manages every fishery in the country, in Rauch’s words, […]

Two senior Senate Republicans are preparing for a rare intraparty showdown over who will lead the Budget Committee, testing how big a platform the party will give one of the loudest conservative voices in the new GOP-controlled Congress. That’s how POLITICO describes the current battle between Sens. Jeff Sessions and Mike Enzi over who will […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange on Wednesday joined a lawsuit filed by the State of Texas challenging the President’s recent immigration actions as unconstitutional and illegal. On Nov. 20, President Obama issued a Department of Homeland Security directive that unilaterally suspended immigration laws as applied to millions of illegal immigrants in the […]

WASHINGTON — Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) on Tuesday blasted a plan by House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) that would fund the government through next September, but readdress in March funding for the Dept. of Homeland Security, which is in charge of implementing the president’s recent executive actions on immigration. Sessions and other House and Senate […]

WASHINGTON — Alabama Congressman Mike Rogers (R-AL3) on Tuesday peppered Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson with questions as the secretary defended President Obama’s recent immigration executive order while testifying before the House Homeland Security Committee. Obama’s executive actions seek to shield from deportation roughly 5 million illegal immigrants who have been in the United States […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — If Congressman-elect Gary Palmer’s recent staffing decisions are any indication, he’ll be charting a staunchly conservative course in his new job representing Alabama’s 6th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Palmer, who was elected in November and will officially succeed 10-term Congressman Spencer Bachus in January, has chosen one current […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Citing increased costs brought on by environmental regulations levied under the Obama Administration, Alabama Power Company on Tuesday filed for its first rate increase since 2011. The increase will raise the average household’s monthly bill by $6.78. Public Service Commission President Twinkle Cavanaugh, whose panel is tasked with regulating the state’s utilities, […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Republican leaders of the Alabama House and Senate filed a motion Tuesday asking the state’s Supreme Court to expedite its ruling on the Alabama Accountability Act (AAA), the school choice law passed by the Legislature and signed by Gov. Bentley in 2013. Advocates of the law say it offers a “lifeline” […]

After spending millions of dollars to influence Alabama’s Republican legislative primaries, and in spite of the state’s increasingly conservative electorate, it appears that the Alabama Education Association’s (AEA) present — and likely future, as well — will continue to be in the hands of Democrats. First, here’s what we know for certain: On Monday, the […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Remember playing “cowboys and Indians” or “cops and robbers” when you were growing up? If one liberal political activist has his way, the next generation of Alabama kids won’t have quite that same experience. Frank Matthews, a Birmingham-based political activist and the president of the Outcast Voters League said on Monday that […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – New data from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs shows the already-long wait times for veterans seeking mental health services in Central Alabama have gotten even worse. New veteran patients seeking mental health care must wait an average of 67 days, up from the 56 day average reported in May. Rep. Martha […]

Before Rosa Parks was “the first lady of civil rights” and “the mother of the freedom movement,” she was a 42-year-old Montgomery, Ala., resident who simply believed the color of her skin should not limit which seats she could occupy on a public bus. On Dec. 1, 1955, Parks was sitting in the “colored” section […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — After passing the nation’s toughest anti-illegal immigration law in 2011 and having one of its U.S. senators lead the charge against amnesty, Alabama has become well-known for its conservative position on immigration reform. But the national affiliate of Alabama’s teachers union is bucking that trend and praising President Obama’s decision to go […]

(Note: All times are Central. For a printable version, click here.)