Posts by Cliff Sims — Page 46
It’s a good year to be a Jacksonville State University Gamecock. The northeast Alabama school’s football team is currently 9-1 on the season and ranked No. 3 in the FCS (formally D1AA), and their band — the Marching Southerners — has been tearing up the exhibition circuit throughout the fall, in addition to their halftime […]
University of Georgia junior running back Todd Gurley crumbled to the turf in Sanford Stadium on Saturday evening after tearing his ACL with just over five minutes remaining in the Bulldogs’ blowout victory over Auburn. In the moment, concerns for his health trumped everything else, but it didn’t take long for analysts — and probably […]
ObamaCare 2.0 rolled out over the weekend with open enrollment beginning Saturday morning. Alabamians who are in the market for health insurance can apply online using the federal exchange, which covers 37 states, along with state-based exchanges. The open enrollment period ends Feb. 15 of next year. Gov. Bentley announced in Nov. of 2012 that […]
Last week, Yellowhammer shared a list of the 20 best private high schools in Alabama. This week, using data compiled by Niche.com, a site that seeks to “make choosing a neighborhood, college, or K-12 school a more transparent process” by “providing reviews and insight from everyday experts,” we’ll turn our attention to the state’s top […]
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives on Friday passed a bill approving the Keystone XL pipeline with bi-partisan support that included every member of Alabama’s congressional delegation, including Democrat Terri Sewell, who was one of 31 Democrats who broke ranks to vote in favor of the bill. If approved, the pipeline would transport oil from Canada […]
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Nationally syndicated radio host and Fox News contributor Laura Ingraham, a Connecticut native who is perhaps the country’s most unlikely Alabama football fan, is in the state this weekend for the Bama-Miss. State game. But before heading to Tuscaloosa, Ingraham stopped in Birmingham to speak at a luncheon organized by the Alabama […]
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WASHINGTON — Alabama Congressman Mike Rogers (R-AL3) on Thursday said he fears the Obama administration’s decision to cut a climate change deal with China will have a profoundly negative impact on his home state. Earlier this week, President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to new restraints on carbon emissions, immediately adding more stringent […]
WASHINGTON — Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) on Wednesday blasted the Obama Administration for cutting a climate change deal with China, which the Alabama senator says gives the United States’ biggest economic rival a significant advantage over the next 15 years, while saddling American businesses with more burdensome regulations. Earlier this week, President Obama and Chinese […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Coal Jobs Count, a grassroots advocacy organization whose stated goal is to “fight the overreach of EPA regulations,” is traversing the state this week on a bus tour warning Alabamians that the Obama Administration’s climate policies pose an existential threat to thousands of jobs and affordable power rates for all Alabama citizens. […]
It looks like what we have here is a classic case of when “keeping it real” goes wrong. On Veterans Day, while most Americans were thanking members of the U.S. armed forces for their service and enjoying their community’s holiday festivities, Michael Schuette of Anniston, Alabama took to Facebook to explain that veterans are not […]
(Video Above: Nick Saban’s must-watch message to fans ahead of the Miss. State game) At this point in 2008, Nick Saban’s Crimson Tide were undefeated, ranked #1 in the country, coming off a stunning overtime victory in Baton Rouge, and getting ready to square off against the Mississippi State Bulldogs. Sound at least somewhat familiar? […]
We already knew that Alabama has some of the most challenging high schools in America and that our state is home to some of the best high schools in the South, but when it comes to private institutions, which of Alabama’s secondary schools are the best of the best? Niche.com, a site that seeks to […]
Voters swept Republicans into the majority in the U.S. Senate last week, but it will still be a couple of months before the transition of power actually takes place. The 114th Congress will be seated January 3, 2015. Until then, Democrats remain in the majority during what is commonly referred to as a “lame duck” […]
WASHINGTON — The newly elected Republican U.S. Senate majority does not take office until January of next year, but Republicans are expressing concerns that President Obama may attempt to take advantage of the upcoming lame duck session of Congress to push through his Attorney General nominee while Democrats are still in control. Obama recently nominated […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Should Alabama lawmakers be able to collect multiple taxpayer-funded state paychecks? That is the question that will soon be answered by a Montgomery County Circuit judge. When Republicans took the majority in the Alabama House and Senate in 2010, one of the first laws they passed prohibited legislators from holding two state […]
This Tuesday, Nov. 11, Americans around the country will celebrate the United States’ 60th annual Veterans Day. In Birmingham, as in countless cities and towns around the the state and nation, citizens will head downtown to enjoy a parade in honor of the men and women who serve our nation in the Armed Forces. Veterans […]
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Birmingham has won a bid to host the 2017 National Senior Games, an event that is expected to bring more than 12,000 participating athletes and $36 million in economic activity into the greater Birmingham area. The Games is a 19-sport, biennial national championship for men and women 50 and over. It is […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — During an interview with the Birmingham News over the weekend, Joe Reed, longtime vice chairman of the Alabama Democratic Party and no. 2 man at the Alabama Education Association (AEA), blamed the Democrats’ election day losses on whites voting Republican against their own self interest simply because President Obama is black. “Too […]
The New York Times recently worked with Facebook to conduct a study determining which parts of the country have the highest concentration of college football fans, and much like its two SEC powerhouse teams do on the field, the state of Alabama dominated the competition. The Times’ Neil Irwin and Kevin Quealy explain: Alabama has […]
Alabama native and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who tends to stay above the fray of politics, on Thursday vented on Fox News about Democrats’ tendency to play racial politics, rather than focusing on policy differences. “The idea that you would play such a card and try fear mongering among minorities just because you […]
Scott Stantis is widely viewed as one of the best — if not the best — editorial cartoonists in the country. At one point he was the staff cartoonist for The Birmingham News. And although he’s now at The Chicago Tribune, which is one of the most high profile jobs in his field, Stantis still […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama House Republicans on Thursday huddled for a meeting in Montgomery just two days after voters saw fit to expand their majority to 72 of the 105-member body. The top order of business for the caucus was to elect their leadership for the next four years. The assembled group voted to keep […]

