Monday night in Gulf Shores, seven congressional hopefuls looking to fill the vacancy left by former Rep. Jo Bonner, R-Mobile, convened in a candidates’ forum co-hosted by Yellowhammer News and the Baldwin County Young Republicans. Most of the perceived “top tier” candidates were there, however one was conspicuously absent. While the rest of the […]

Chris Christie ignited a firestorm when he essentially called Sen. Rand Paul and his fellow libertarian-leaning conservatives “dangerous” for their apprehension to the National Security Agency’s surveillance program and the FBI’s use of drones on American soil. “This strain of libertarianism that’s going through parties right now and making big headlines I think is a […]

Shortly after Rep. Jo Bonner, R-Mobile, announced he would be departing the U.S. House of Representatives to take a job with the University of Alabama system, several lists of possible successors emerged. The name “Wells Griffith” didn’t make it on to many — if any — of the early lists. But when news began leaking out that […]