Although Republicans have had a pretty dismal run lately in presidential election years, midterm elections have given the GOP a chance to make up some ground. Most notably, the Tea Party wave of 2010 (GOP picked up a whopping 63 seats in the House) installed a Republican majority in the U.S. House that has a […]

The Alabama Republican Party announced on Monday that Indiana Gov. Mike Pence will headline the ALGOP Summer Dinner on Friday, June 20, at the at the Cahaba Grand Conference Center in Birmingham. Gov. Pence served in Congress for 12 years before being elected governor in 2012. During his tenure in the U.S. House, he served […]

6th Congressional District candidate Will Brooke raised some eyebrows during a candidate forum at Hoover High School on Monday after expressing his support for “a path to legal status” for illegal immigrants and calling for “comprehensive immigration reform,” both phrases that have become red flags to some in the conservative base. Later in the debate […]

Alabama State Rep. Steve Hurst, R-Mumford, is pulling out the big guns in his effort to fight off a Republican primary challenge in House District 35, which he has represented since 1998. The Hurst campaign has been seen driving around his Calhoun and Talladega County house district with a giant revolver in tow. The photo […]

(Above: A night with the Birmingham Barons at Regions Field) Yellowhammer is traveling to every corner of Alabama capturing video footage for a series of videos we’re calling “This is Alabama…” Yellowhammer’s first “This is Alabama…” video documented a day at the State House and Capitol in Montgomery. Our second is footage compiled after spending […]

One of the country’s most widely read conservative media outlets is hailing Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as “arguably the leading intellectual force against amnesty in Congress.” Breitbart News said in an exclusive piece posted last week that Sessions is “coming out swinging” against what they referred to as a “secretive house immigration push” backed by […]

The horror stories related to the unfortunately named Affordable Care Act continue to pile up. This time, its widows who were married to retired Madison County (Ala.) employees who are in the crosshairs of the president’s healthcare law. Widows have always been covered under the Madison County’s self-insured healthcare plan. But they lost their coverage […]

The Alabama Legislature in 2007 — at the time controlled by Democrats — passed themselves a 62% pay raise, which also included automatic increases to their monthly expense allowance to coincide with any increase in the consumer price index. The Republican-controlled Legislature in 2012 repealed the pay increase and tied legislative pay to median household […]

(Above: Yellowhammer CEO Cliff Sims interviews Great Souther Wood CEO Jimmy Rane) Yellowhammer’s video crew sat in a nearly empty 1950s-style soda shop in Abbeville, Ala. around 3 p.m. Thursday afternoon and started recapping everything we had seen over the previous several hours. Abbeville, the oldest remaining colonial settlement in East Alabama, is a town […]

The Alabama Policy Institute, a conservative think tank located in Birmingham, Ala., just released their annual list of the most business-friendly cities in Alabama, and it contains a few surprises. “In order for Alabama to excel in an increasingly competitive global marketplace, Alabama must be as attractive as possible to businesses looking to establish or […]

(Above: Parker Griffith speaks at “Hot Dogs and Yellow Dogs”) “We are now the dominant party,” Parker Griffith, Democratic candidate for governor said yesterday at an event dubbed “Hot Dogs and Yellow Dogs.” That may be the case on the national level right now — although “dominant” is probably much too strong of a word […]

As rain started to fall on campus at the University of Alabama, Crimson Tide quarterback AJ McCarron saw a fellow student trying in vain to hail a bus. “We had gotten done with practice, and I saw two buses starting to pull away,” McCarron recalled. “I saw AJ, and I could tell he had some […]

Rep. Bradley Byrne, R-AL01, will host the third-ranking House Republican in Mobile, Ala. next week for a tour of Austal USA. House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy will visit the shipyard, which is currently building the Littoral Combat Ship for the U.S. Navy. “As the House Majority Whip, Congressman McCarthy has broad influence within the Republican […]

BET.com, the website of Black Entertainment Television, has a piece out this week touting the record number of black Republicans running for public office in Alabama this cycle. 11 black Republicans are seeking elective office in the state this year, compared to just one in both 2010 and 2012. BET highlighted 9 of the 11. […]

MARCH 26, 9:49 a.m. — An Auburn University student named Zac Smith tweeted a picture of a message he’d found written inside a bathroom stall in the Haley Center, a 10-floor, 400,000+ sq. ft. building that house the University Bookstore, as well as facilities for the College of Liberal Arts and College of Education. To […]

Gov. Robert Bentley’s efforts to cure what ails the State of Alabama sure don’t pay as well as his medical practice once did, but the assets he accrued during his time as a doctor are now proving to be very helpful to the physician-turned-governor. Perhaps the most well-known plank in Bentley’s campaign platform in 2010 […]

In a letter sent today to the Alabama Ethics Commission, Tuscaloosa coal miner John Box asks officials to investigate what he describes as “misuse of state office” by an employee of Public Service Commissioner Terry Dunn. Mr. Box specifically asks the Ethics Commission to review two examples of alleged misconduct by Dunn’s chief of staff […]

Not that there was any doubt about how serious University of Alabama fans are about their football program, but a stat released today by Lost Letterman should only further establish Tuscaloosa as the football capital of the world. Alabama’s “A-Day” game is the 15th and final practice of the spring and is made open to […]

Fresh off the announcement of a massive fundraising haul in the first quarter of 2014, Paul DeMarco’s congressional campaign is kicking it into high gear and starting to spend some of that cash to move votes. Here’s the transcript for the DeMarco campaign’s first television ad, which can viewed above: I’m Paul DeMarco. Do you […]

The Washington Post’s annual ranking of the country’s most challenging high schools is out and seven Alabama schools are on the list, which The Post refers to as “The Challenge Index.” “The index score is the number of college-level tests given at a school in the previous calendar year divided by the number of graduates […]

In spite of the rising costs of health insurance brought on by ObamaCare, the premiums paid by current teachers and education support personnel will stay level in 2015 at $15/month for individual plans and $177/month for family plans. Co-pays for medical care will also remain unchanged, as will the rates for retirees. The board that […]

VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. – Republican 6th Congressional District candidate Will Brooke will report having raised $421,343 in the first quarter of 2014 when campaign finance disclosures are officially released tomorrow. The campaign has raised nearly $740,000 to date, and has $467,937.43 cash-on-hand heading into the second quarter of the year. “First, I want to thank […]

Conservative journalist Quin Hillyer on Monday called Alabama’s 6th Congressional District race “the single most important U.S. House race in the country,” before throwing his support behind Republican Gary Palmer. Hillyer is a contributing editor of National Review, which describes itself as “America’s most widely read and influential magazine and web site for conservative news, […]

A couple in Tuscaloosa, Ala. had their breakfast interrupted on Palm Sunday by a man wielding a machete and demanding their valuables. According to AL.com, the Tuscaloosa Police Department responded to a home invasion call at 10:40 a.m. on Sunday. But by the time they arrived, one of the victims had already subdued the suspect, […]