FARNBOROUGH, England — Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley announced from England on Tuesday that GE Aviation plans to bring high volume additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, to its facility in Auburn. This facility will be the first of its kind to mass produce additive components for the jet propulsion industry. “GE Aviation’s decision to […]

Chris Cillizza, editor of The Washington Post’s political blog “The Fix” had this to say on Twitter Monday afternoon: These are the 10 most politically boring states. Prove me wrong. http://t.co/IfuPSyeUA0 — Chris Cillizza (@TheFix) July 14, 2014 After clicking through to the article and realizing that Alabama was on The Fix’s list of the […]

Parker Griffith, the Democratic Party’s nominee for Alabama governor, made some… well… interesting comments at a recent campaign stop. In response to a voter asking whether Griffith’s frequent Party switching (“from a Democrat to a Republican and back again”) has affected his support, Griffith had this to say: It’s still difficult. Religion and politics are […]

New revelations of negligence, mismanagement and cover-ups within the Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System (CAVHCS) seem to have become a weekly — even daily — occurrence at this point. First, employees were caught falsifying records to cover up long wait times. Then CAVHCS director James Talton lied about firing the offending staffers, but instead got rid of the […]

Alabama runoff elections are set to take place on Tuesday, with several hotly contested races still very much in doubt. With turnout expected to be historically low — the Alabama Secretary of State is estimating around 5 percent — every vote will count. Here are four races that Alabamians should be paying particularly close attention […]

It’s not uncommon in Alabama to see a pickup truck riding down the highway with a load of people in the back, especially in rural areas of the state. I did it growing up. Pretty much everyone I know has done it at some point. In some cases it’s for practical reasons, but in most […]

(Video Above: Pat Boone endorses Chip Beeker for PSC) Legendary entertainer Pat Boone, spokesman for the 60 Plus Association, often described as the conservative alternative to AARP, over the weekend endorsed Republican Chip Beeker in his campaign for a seat on the 3-member Alabama Public Service Commission. “I’m still singing at concerts, but today on […]

U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on Thursday harshly criticized the Obama administration’s handling of the immigration crisis at the southwest border. He also rejected the idea of borrowing money to fulfill the administration’s $3.7 billion “emergency” funding request to address the influx of child immigrants coming into the country, […]

Businessman and Prattville City Council member Clyde Chambliss was just 19 votes short of winning the crowded Senate District 30 Republican primary outright. But when all the votes were counted on June 3rd, he came in just shy of the 50 percent threshold needed to avoid a runoff. He was followed by Harris Garner of […]

Montgomery, Ala. – 22 Republican probate judges from counties across Alabama today threw their support behind their former colleague Reese McKinney, who is locked in a tight runoff with state representative John Merrill in his bid to become Alabama’s next secretary of state. Probate judges are the chief election officials in the counties they represent. […]

The Central Alabama Veterans Healthcare System (CAVHCS) has racked up seven-figures worth of unpaid bills to local area hospitals who wanted to help the VA relieve its backlog of veterans waiting to receive care. According to documentation obtained exclusively by Yellowhammer News, CAVHCS as of June 26, 2014 owed Jackson Hospital in Montgomery $1.6 million, […]

It has been a whirlwind few weeks in the race to become Alabama’s next U.S. representative from the 6th Congressional District. Paul DeMarco won 33 percent of the vote in the crowded Republican primary, giving him a commanding lead going into the runoff against Gary Palmer, who came in second in the primary with 19 […]

Ivan Cash, a filmmaker from San Francisco, California came to Alabama recently to continue a multi-part video series he calls “Last Photo.” Cash walks up to random people on the street, asks them to show him the last picture they took on their phone and films them telling the story behind it. In the video […]

The two chimneys atop the Powell Avenue Steam Plant have been fixtures of the Birmingham skyline for over a century. Originally constructed only 25 years after the City of Birmingham’s founding, the 60,000 square-foot facility was built to power a “new south” city rising out of the mineral-rich soil of central Alabama. “It was like […]

WASHINGTON — “Whistleblowers” who exposed fraud and abuses inside the Veterans Affairs System around the nation testified before the House Veterans Affairs Committee on Tuesday, several of them detailing shocking stories of harassment and retribution that occurred after they came forward. Although no one involved in the Central Alabama VA scandal testified before the committee, […]

The State of Alabama is used to topping the list of college football powerhouses, but a recent study also places the Yellowhammer State at the top of a much less desirable list. According to research conducted by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Alabamians take more narcotic painkillers than residents of any other state […]

The Waltons. The Kennedys. The Rockefellers. The Mellons. The names of the United States’ wealthiest families are well-known to many Americans, although Alabamians feel far-removed from the northeastern dynasties, many of which trace their fortunes to generations — even centuries — past. But there is at least one name in Alabama that can count itself […]

House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Oh.) plan to sue President Obama for misusing executive powers has been met with a combination of praise, skepticism, and outrage. Many conservatives have been calling for Republicans in Congress to use whatever means they have at their disposal to halt the expansion of executive power and force the Administration to […]

Book publisher HarperCollins announced Monday that Paul Finebaum’s upcoming book, My Conference Can Beat Your Conference: Why the SEC Still Rules College Football, is now available for pre-order. Here’s how Harper Collins describes the book: An all-access pass into the powerhouse teams and passionate fanbases of the legendary Southeastern Conference, from one of the most […]

13,000 Alabama jobs are at risk, but the problem has gotten relatively little attention, possibly because it is somewhat complex and not in an area that typically gets a lot of headlines — international trade law. So what is going on? In short, the Obama Administration’s refusal to vigorously and fairly enforce trade laws is […]

WASHINGTON — The Obama Administration is expected to put forward on Tuesday a request for $2 billion in funding to cover the costs of the immigration crisis on the southern border. The Administration will cast the request as an emergency appropriation that would not require Congress to find any spending or tax offsets to cover […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Medical Association of the State of Alabama (MASA) has created a registry of private physicians prepared to help veterans across Alabama get the timely care they need outside the Veterans Affairs system, which is mired in scandal and maintains an extensive backlog of patients waiting to receive care. “Our nation is […]

Gov. Robert Bentley and numerous local and state elected officials came together today to celebrate the grand opening of Jack Daniel’s new barrel manufacturing facility at the Mallard Fox West Industrial Complex in Trinity, Ala., just west of Decatur. Glad to be in Lawrence County today to thank Jack Daniels for expanding into AL and […]

Target, the United States’ third largest “mass merchant” retailer, last week issued a public statement requesting that shoppers no longer bring guns into their stores. “As you’ve likely seen in the media, there has been a debate about whether guests in communities that permit ‘open carry’ should be allowed to bring firearms into Target stores,” […]