What’s it like to prepare to deploy into a hostile area overseas? To get bit by a military working dog? To do hand-to-hand combat training with Navy SEALs and Green Berets? To get ready to drive like your life depends on it? Thanks to Alabama defense contractor XTreme Concepts, Yellowhammer found out. For several days […]

What’s it like to prepare to deploy into a hostile area overseas? To get bit by a military working dog? To do hand-to-hand combat training with Navy SEALs and Green Berets? To get ready to drive like your life depends on it? Thanks to Alabama defense contractor XTreme Concepts, Yellowhammer found out. For several days […]

By: Artur Davis Let me get the news-making information out of the way: On Aug. 25, an exact year before the election, I will be setting up a Davis for Mayor exploratory committee. If it reports that the resources and grassroots support are there, I am in. I don’t underestimate the obstacles. While I was […]

Yellowhammer News CEO Cliff Sims sat down with legendary meteorologist James Spann in the ABC 33/40 studio recently to record an episode of The Exchange, Yellowhammer’s weekly interview with an Alabama politician, business leader or otherwise notable Alabamian. The interview is being rolled out in pieces throughout this week. Part 1: James Spann: ‘Alabama is […]

(Above: Cliff Sims talks to James Spann about climate change) Yellowhammer News CEO Cliff Sims sat down with legendary meteorologist James Spann in the ABC 33/40 studio recently to record an episode of The Exchange, Yellowhammer’s weekly interview with an Alabama politician, business leader or otherwise notable Alabamian. The interview will be rolled out in pieces […]

Yellowhammer News CEO Cliff Sims sat down with legendary meteorologist James Spann in the ABC 33/40 studio recently to record an episode of The Exchange, Yellowhammer’s weekly interview with an Alabama politician, business leader or otherwise notable Alabamian. The interview will be rolled out in pieces throughout this week. In Part 1, Spann talks about […]

(Above: Indiana Gov. Mike Pence makes the case that the next U.S. President should be a governor) While Indiana Gov. Mike Pence was in Birmingham to speak at the Alabama Republican Party summer dinner, he sat down with Yellowhammer News CEO Cliff Sims to film an episode of The Exchange, Yellowhammer’s weekly interview feature. Rather than releasing […]

(Above: Indiana Gov. Mike Pence defends his “Healthy Indiana” plan in an interview with Yellowhammer’s Cliff Sims) While Indiana Gov. Mike Pence was in Birmingham to speak at the Alabama Republican Party summer dinner, he sat down with Yellowhammer News CEO Cliff Sims to film an episode of The Exchange, Yellowhammer’s weekly interview feature. Rather […]

While Indiana Gov. Mike Pence was in Birmingham to speak at the Alabama Republican Party summer dinner, he sat down with Yellowhammer News CEO Cliff Sims to film an episode of The Exchange, Yellowhammer’s weekly interview feature. Rather than releasing the entire interview at once, Yellowhammer will be rolling it out in pieces throughout this […]

While Indiana Gov. Mike Pence was in Birmingham to speak at the Alabama Republican Party summer dinner, he sat down with Yellowhammer News CEO Cliff Sims to film an episode of The Exchange, Yellowhammer’s weekly interview feature. Rather than releasing the entire interview at once, Yellowhammer will be rolling it out in pieces over the […]

By: Tom Saunders, General Counsel and Director of Government Affairs, Alabama Forestry Association June 2015 is one year away and the clock is ticking. Why is this date important? It’s the date that the Education Rainy Day Fund must, by constitutional mandate, be repaid. Six years ago, Gov. Bob Riley drained this account to the […]

In this week’s episode of The Exchange, Yellowhammer News CEO Cliff Sims sits down with Alabama Governor Robert Bentley at the State Capitol to get his thoughts on his first few years in office, what he hopes to accomplish in a second term, and what he wants to be his legacy. For more episodes of […]

Yellowhammer News CEO Cliff Sims interviewed Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley on Tuesday for Yellowhammer’s weekly series, The Exchange. The full interview will air on Sunday, but in a particularly revealing portion of the interview previewed here, Bentley recalls a conversation he had earlier this year with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy. “I spoke to […]

(Video Above: The Alabama Eats crew checks out El Barrio) Set on downtown’s quickly emerging 2nd Ave. North, El Barrio offers an exciting, Southern spin on Mexican cuisine. With its urban design and locally sourced ingredients, the restaurant seeks to bridge the gap between the typical Mexican restaurant and a bustling bar and grill. Just […]

Republican 6th Congressional District candidates Paul DeMarco and Gary Palmer will square off head-to-head in a debate for the first time Thursday evening at 7 p.m. at Regions Field in downtown Birmingham. At the event, which is free and open to the public, a panel of local opinion leaders will ask the Republican candidates “tough […]

By: State Rep. Jack Williams (R-Vestavia Hills) While American air superiority is a global fact today, there is no guarantee it will be maintained in the future. That’s why the Pentagon is investing now to replace our country’s aging fleet of fourth-generation fighters with the fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II, a process that injects more than […]

By Allen C. Dittenhoefer, Ph.D. On June 2, 2014, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a new round of proposed regulations to further curb U.S. electric utility greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The Chamber of Commerce estimates that these new rules could result in a loss of approximately 224,000 jobs per year and increase electricity rates […]

By: Dr. John Hill As the provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) continue to be implemented, there are now more signs that the Administration’s labyrinthine healthcare program has the potential to cripple the vulnerable populations it had originally promised to help. Earlier this year, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued a report estimating […]

(Above: Sen. Shelby shares his thoughts on Common Core) Yellowhammer News CEO Cliff Sims sat down with U.S. Senator Richard Shelby in his Tuscaloosa office earlier this week to film the latest episode of The Exchange, a weekly interview series that runs on Yellowhammer on Sunday mornings. Their conversation touched on a wide range of […]

(Video Above: Rick & Bubba enter The Exchange) Yellowhammer News CEO Cliff Sims sat down with the self-proclaimed “two sexiest fat men alive,” Rick Burgess and Bill “Bubba” Bussey, to see what makes the Alabama-based, nationally syndicated talk radio giants tick. Rick & Bubba’s on-air partnership is over two decades old, but Bubba still remembers […]

(Above: Rick & Bubba talk politics) When Yellowhammer News CEO Cliff Sims sat down with Alabama-based, nationally syndicated talk radio giants Rick Burgess and Bill “Bubba” Bussey earlier this week, the guys had a lot on their minds. From laughing about the early years of their wildly successful radio show, to remembering the tragic death […]

HACKLEBURG, Alabama – Inside the Wrangler distribution center in this Marion County community, a conveyer system two miles long carries cartons of jeans along a twisting path through the gleaming new facility that has risen from the rubble of April 27, 2011. Manager Wade Hagedorn walks through the 369,000-square-foot center as workers wearing radio frequency […]

By: Gene Hallman They said no one would go to Railroad Park. They said no one would go watch the Barons play baseball downtown. They said downtown was dead. Guess what? They were wrong. Now it’s time to talk about our biggest and most rewarding project. The dome to some people is a foul four-letter […]

As news agencies across the country announced the death of Admiral Denton, “War hero, Vietnam POW, Admiral and Senator” crossed the headlines. He was all of those, indeed. And more. Often forgotten is the international impact Denton, a native of Mobile, Ala., had in some of the farthest reaching corners of the Earth. For example… […]