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Scott: So tell me about this Amendment 2 you have going on. Sen. Scofield: Well, Amendment 2 is a very important amendment that everybody remembers from last year when the Governor was talking about closing down some of the parks due to the funding crisis. Amendment 2 is a direct result to that and making […]

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Congressman Ryan Zinke’s American Commander is the true story of the man who commanded many of the SEALs you know like Chris Kyle, Rob O’Neill, Marcus Luttrell, Brandon Webb and other decorated heroes. This exclusive Sneak Peek includes the Foreword by former Navy SEAL Rob O’Neill, who fired the shot that killed Osama bin Laden, […]

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By The Alabama Opportunity Scholarship Fund Kendri Moore is not just your average wide-eyed student starting her high school experience with tepid expectations. At Faith Academy in Mobile, her teachers and principal say she has found a home. Kendri’s family was desperate to get her out of a troubling situation she was in at the […]

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From the Alabama Department of Labor MONTGOMERY – Data collected and analyzed by the Alabama Department of Labor’s Labor Market Information Division shows that the most online wanted ads were for heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers, registered nurses, and retail salespersons, with 7,011 ads placed for those occupations in August. Overall ads were up over […]

By Johnny Kampis / Watchdog.org If you build it, sometimes they don’t come. Opelika spent about $43 million to build a broadband network capable of 1 gigabit-per-second symmetrical speeds, financed by a bond issue backed up by the revenue of Opelika Power Services. Four years later (as of Aug. 26), OPS has one subscriber for […]

By: Senator Clay Scofield (R) and Senator Rodger Smitherman (D) Given the importance of broadband in today’s world, elected officials routinely consider the best way to enhance high-speed internet access. As we have written in the past, we think the best way to achieve this key goal is to work with private sector Internet Service […]

Over 30 years ago, Anthony Montalto had the opportunity to take on a leadership role that would change the course of his life and the lives of the young adults around him. He stepped up and made a decision to run for 1973-1974 SGA President of Woodlawn High School. His year as SGA President was […]

When Milo Carlton came home to Birmingham, Alabama, after World War II and served the first cup of fresh-brewed iced tea at his new business, he had no idea that 70 years later local fans would be so obsessed with the sweet beverage that it would become a city icon. Nor could he dream that […]

By: Patrick Gleason Alabama is a political hot mess right now. The heads of all three branches of state government are facing legal trouble and removal from office. The state has experienced multiple budget shortfalls in recent years and raised taxes in 2015, making Alabama an outlier in a region filled with states reducing tax […]

By State Rep. Rich Wingo (R – Tuscaloosa) As a child, I, like many of you, learned the biblical story of Daniel, a man who was thrown into a den of lions because of his devout faith but found himself shielded by God’s grace and His angels of protection. It struck me that Alabama today […]

NASA’s Space Shuttle blasted off for the first time 35 years ago, and engineers and scientists from Southern Research made critical contributions to the program during a journey that spanned three decades and a half-billion miles. In fact, by the time Columbia rose from Kennedy Space Center on April 12, 1981, Southern Research’s engineers had […]

Keona Jenkins is a senior at Holy Family Cristo Rey Catholic High School in Birmingham. She came to Holy Family in 2012 as a freshman. Keona is a member of the Mu Alpha Theta Math Club, Junior National Honor Society, Vice President of the Student Ambassadors, and Co-Captain of the Girls Varsity basketball team. She […]

By Representative Lynn Greer and Katherine Green Robertson on April 25, 2016 Like many pension funds across the country, the State of Alabama’s public pension system faces significant funding challenges. Alabama’s pension costs have doubled over the last ten years, despite the fact that the legislature has never missed paying the steadily increasing annual required […]

By Muriel Farley My husband, Allen Farley, is a member of the Alabama House of Representatives. On August 28th of 2015, we received news that Alabama’s First Lady Dianne Bentley was divorcing Alabama Governor Robert Bentley, her husband of fifty years. Needless to say we were shocked and saddened. You see, we had been hearing […]

By Courtney Michaluk Happy Tax Day! Whether you began the pencil pushing months ago, or prefer to file last minute, April 18th means the majority of Alabamians have finished the annual paperwork headache. But, did you know that you’ve actually just finished making enough money to pay your tax bill for the year? April 8 […]

By Dana Beyerle It’s October 1941. Alabama headlines follow the war in Europe and Asia. On Oct. 11, less than two months from U.S. entry into the World War II, the Alabama Research Institute is formed in Birmingham with the challenge to produce innovative research for the South. An early contract is with the National […]

By Rep. Mac McCutcheon and Rep. Laura Hall Every modern politician — from mayors and members of city councils, to those who serve in the legislature — has an obligation to ensure that responsible policies are enacted in order to help their residents and businesses compete in a global economy. Part of this obligation is […]