(VIDEO: Yellowhammer travels to Uganda to capture the Sozo story) Sozo is a Greek word that means to save, to nurture, to rescue. You will quickly see in the video above that no word could better describe what Sozo Children, a non-profit organization started in Birmingham, Alabama, is doing for children 7,869 miles away in […]

The percentage of Americans participating in the U.S. workforce remains the lowest its been in decades, but the economy did add 217,000 non-farm jobs in May, slightly more than economists were expecting, according to numbers released Friday morning by The Bureau of Labor Statistics. The labor participation rate is the variable that makes unemployment numbers […]

The Central Intelligence Agency, the principle U.S. government agency tasked with intelligence-gathering overseas, joined Twitter on Friday and immediately went viral with its first tweet. We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet. — CIA (@CIA) June 6, 2014 The agency also joined Facebook, further expanding its social media presence outside […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange said Thursday that he plans to launch a legal challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency’s latest decision to place stricter regulations on U.S. coal plants, which he says constitutes a direct threat to Alabama jobs. “The Obama administration’s EPA ruling to cut carbon emissions at power plants […]

Global Yodel, a website that “explores destinations, places, cultures, people and products around the world from the perspective of locals,” has awarded Greensboro, Alabama a spot on their list of the “18 Most Underrated Cities In The U.S.” The list, which was published by The Huffington Post, includes “incredible places that rarely make the top […]

(Above: Sen. Sessions discusses the Taliban prisoner swap with Matt Murphy) As a guest this morning on Matt Murphy’s Birmingham-area talk radio program, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said he believes the Obama Administration made a “colossal error” in negotiating a prisoner swap with the Taliban. Key national security staffers from the White House hosted a […]

Alabama State Rep. Harry Shiver (R-Bay Minette) easily beat back a primary challenger on Tuesday, winning 60 percent of the vote to all but assure himself of himself a third term in the Legislature. Upon getting news of his victory, Shiver lashed out at some of the conservatives who opposed him during the election. “That […]

The Alabama Education Association (AEA) had a tough day on Tuesday. After the traditionally Democratic-leaning group spent roughly $7 million dollars to influence Republican primary elections, they weren’t able to win any statewide races or senate contests, and only picked up a handful of low-profile house seats. RELATED: Alabama’s Republican primary was an unmitigated disaster […]

Alabama voters sent a clear message on Tuesday that they are not interested in returning Montgomery to the Alabama Education Association’s control. After spending $7 million on a wide variety of races around the state, the AEA was only able to pick up a small handful of low-profile state house seats. But as important as […]

The News in 90 Seconds is a Yellowhammer feature that takes a complex issue and boils it down into a short video to make it more understandable. Today we’re recapping Alabama’s 2014 Alabama primary elections. Check out the video above. The transcript of the voiceover is below and includes links to Yellowhammer’s coverage of each […]

With very little drama taking place in any statewide campaigns, the battle over Alabama’s 6th Congressional District seat has been the marquee race of this primary season. Things got off to a strange start on Monday, Sept. 30 of last year when 11-term incumbent congressman Spencer Bachus broke the news live on Fox 6 that he […]

The months leading up to last night’s Alabama Republican primary elections were engulfed by a tsunami of negative advertising. The ads, which were delivered to voters via television, direct mail, radio, the Internet and over the phone, were designed to drown Republican incumbents with wave after wave of attacks. Many of them were paid for […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Obama Administration’s decision to release five “mid- to high-level officials from the Taliban regime” in exchange for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl endangers deployed military personnel and threatens national security, Reps. Martha Roby (R-AL2) and Bradley Byrne (R-AL1) said today. “Today our soldiers fighting in Afghanistan are in greater danger because of […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), today announced that a Senate Appropriations subcommittee allocated nearly $18 billion to NASA for the 2015 Fiscal Year, including $1.7 billion allocated to rocket development for the Space Launch System (SLS) currently underway at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Sen. Shelby is Vice Chairman […]

One Alabama bakery has created a groom’s cake that will go down in history as one of the all-time greats, just like the scene it almost perfectly recreates. Cobalt Confections delivered the cake over the weekend to newly-married Billy Gilley of Chelsea, Ala. The cake is an incredible recreation of Auburn’s Jordan-Hare Stadium in the […]

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) took to the floor of the Senate on Monday to blast the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision to place stricter regulations on U.S. coal plants. “Median income is down in America per family by $2,300. Your wages are down, your job prospects are down, unemployment remains exceedingly high, and we are […]

The Alabama New South Alliance (ALSA), a sister organization of the Alabama New South Coalition, whose stated goal is to promote “progressive” ideals and legislation, has issued a surprise sample ballot encouraging its members to abandon the Democratic primary and instead cast their ballots for Republicans. In 2012, the ALSA endorsed a straight Democratic ticket, […]

The Alabama Republican Party has decided to up the ante when it comes to their ballot security operation. The ALGOP announced today that they are offering $1,000 to anyone who can provide information that directly leads to a felony conviction for voter fraud. “‘Reward Stop Voter Fraud’ signs with our hotline number will be placed […]

Alabama Public Service Commission — Place 2 Candidates: Incumbent — Terry Dunn Challengers — Jonathan Barbee, Chip Beeker, Philip Brown Background: Alabama Public Service Commission races rarely make it into the headlines, but after incumbent Republican Terry Dunn sided with environmental groups on a series of votes at the PSC, conservatives started coming out of […]

Yellowhammer’s recent story, “How Obama organizers are trying to hijack Alabama’s Republican primary” stirred up a lot of conversation and was shared several thousand times on Facebook in just a couple of days. We received a flood of emails asking us to expose the candidates who are being supported by the Obama organizers and the […]

There was apparently a time when Americans briefly served in political office as a public service before returning to their jobs in the private sector. I say apparently because for much of my adult life that simply has not been the case. In the stunning GIF below, which was created using data complied by the […]

Pro-union workers at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance, Ala. have grown weary of the unionization efforts of the United Auto Workers (UAW), according to a new report. A vocal group of pro-union Mercedes employees have asked the UAW to stop their campaign to unionize the plant because it has failed to gain enough traction. “This […]

(Video Above: Sen. Richard Shelby enters The Exchange) Six months after an Alabama state senator from Tuscaloosa named Richard Shelby got elected to Congress, U.S. President Jimmy Carter delivered his infamous “malaise speech.” Over the next three-and-a-half decades, Shelby perhaps more than any other Alabamian would have a front row seat for history — from […]

Alabama Republican Party Chairman Bill Armistead is confident that more Republicans than ever will be elected to the Alabama Legislature this coming Tuesday. However, the question is, will they be genuine conservatives, or will the state’s most powerful liberal special interest group be successful in getting their “plants” elected to office? That group, of course, […]