The last time Alabama experienced job growth like it did this September was in 2006, before the Great Recession brought on years of high unemployment and anemic economic growth across the country. Alabama’s seasonally adjusted September unemployment rate dropped to 6.6%, down from 6.9% in August. There were still 140,674 unemployed Alabamians last month, compared […]

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Alabama head coach Nick Saban has extraordinarily high expectations for everyone around him — from his staff, to the players, to the media, and even the fans. To his credit, he holds himself to that same high, sometimes even unreachable standard, as well. But when someone doesn’t live up to his standard, coach Saban occasionally, […]

WASHINGTON – Congressman Bradley Byrne (AL-1) today made clear his support for a temporary ban on travel to the United States from west Africa to help protect Americans against the spread of the Ebola virus. Many Members of Congress, including House Speaker John Boehner, have spoken out about their support for a temporary ban on […]

(Video Above: Yellowhammer takes you behind the scenes at Redemptive Cycles) Redemptive Cycles in Birmingham, Ala., isn’t your typical bike shop. It’s more like a community. Actually, it’s more like a family — a really big family — one that includes hundreds of individuals from every imaginable background. Marcus Fetch and his small team at […]

George Wallace was governor of Alabama for over 16 years — 5,848 days, to be exact. He won the office four times, serving two consecutive terms and two non-consecutive terms. He helped get his wife elected governor once, as well. So although he was unsuccessful in his attempts to get elected to national office, it’s […]

“Lil Wayne + Ecclesiastes + Frank Sinatra = one of the best Alabama campaign ads of the year” That Yellowhammer headline from June of this year launched a whirlwind of national attention focused on a relatively obscure Alabama legislative race. Republican Darius Foster is running for Alabama House of Representatives in District 56, which includes […]

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley, who has withstood a barrage of negative ads from his Democratic opponent Parker Griffith, has decided to go on the offensive, painting Griffith as an untrustworthy party-switcher with no core beliefs. Griffith was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat in 2008, then switched parties to run in […]

Alabama’s First Lady Dianne Bentley is generally soft-spoken, but when it comes to the issue of domestic violence, her voice is starting to ring out across the entire country. It all started when Mrs. Bentley got to know some of the women inmates who were working at the governor’s mansion on a work release program. […]

According to the American Forces News Service, Alabama has over 66,000 military personnel based in the state at installations like Fort McClellan, Anniston Army Depot, Redstone Arsenal, Fort Rucker and Maxwell Air Force Base. Alabama’s fighting forces have been deployed all over the globe and have a reputation for valor that was earned over centuries […]

During an appearance on the Matt Murphy Show Monday morning, Alabama governor Robert Bentley said that the attempted unionization of non-union manufacturing plants in Alabama hurts his ability to recruit companies to locate in the state and threatens to damage Alabama’s budding relationship with Asian companies looking to locate in the U.S. The United Auto […]

The Hawks of Montgomery, Alabama’s Huntingdon College are currently locked in a four-way tie for first in the USA South Athletic Conference standings after this weekend’s 51-31 win over the Christopher Newport University Captains. The Hawks were led on Saturday by sophomore quarterback Luke Bailey, who torched the Captains’ secondary for 371 yards and four […]

Alabama has voted Republican in every presidential election since 1980, but it took another 30 years for the GOP to finally gain control of the Alabama State Legislature (2010). One of the primary reasons for the delay is that Democrats on the local level were successful in separating themselves in the minds of voters from […]

In a tiny private dining room of a popular Capitol Hill restaurant in late September, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) sat at the center of a long table flanked by about a dozen major Republican donors. He discussed the origins of recent U.S. monetary policy, recalled minute details of political battles that took place decades ago […]

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WASHINGTON — Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) on Thursday expressed outrage that a White House spokesman openly admitted that the Obama Administration postponed taking executive action on immigration until after the November elections in an effort to avoid backlash at the polls. In a release, Sessions’ office said that the president’s planned “executive amnesty” would provide […]

An individual who recently traveled to Africa was quarantined at St. Vincent’s St. Clair Hospital in Pell City, Ala., with symptoms of Ebola, but doctors now say that the individual does not have the deadly disease. After a confirmed case of Ebola surfaced in Dallas a few days ago, states began taking precautions to make […]

A who’s who of Alabama business and political power players converged at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Birmingham Tuesday night for the annual Business Council of Alabama Chairman’s dinner featuring keynote speaker Jeb Bush. Bush, a former governor of Florida known in political circles as a policy wonk with a passion for education reform, has […]

Alabama Republican Party Chairman Bill Armistead slammed Democratic gubernatorial candidate Parker Griffith on Wednesday for being “a one trick pony” who would “would only perform” for the Alabama Education Association (AEA) if elected. “It was not surprising when Parker Griffith took the first $300,000 campaign contribution from the state teachers union (AEA) because they have […]

Alabama Governor Robert Bentley was elected in the great Tea Party wave of 2010, an election cycle when the calls for reductions to the size of government were louder than ever. The first-term governor responded with a plan he dubbed the “Road to a Billion Dollars in Savings,” which sought to “right size” Alabama’s state […]

Birmingham, Ala., native and former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was honored at West Point on Monday with the U.S. Military Academy’s Thayer Award, which is presented to individuals who have served the United States by embodying the Academy’s motty of “Duty, Honor, Country.” “For more than three decades and during some of America’s […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Gov. Robert Bentley on Tuesday stood alongside leaders from the 60 Plus Association (60+) — commonly referred to as the conservative alternative to AARP — to unveil a new study showing that recently proposed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations could cause Alabamians’ electricity rates to spike by 20 percent. An EPA ruling […]

According to a new survey, 2 percent of Americans who said they’d be willing to vote a state out of the Union would vote to kick Alabama out if given the opportunity. The Fox News Poll was conducted jointly by Democratic polling firm Anderson Robbins Research and Republican polling firm Shaw & Company Research, who […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – On Monday, Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) Sloan Gibson proposed that James Talton, the embattled Director of the Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System (CAVHCS), be permanently removed from his post for neglect of duty. The Deputy Secretary’s recommendation follows an investigation into misconduct at CAVHCS in which the allegations of […]