On Tuesday, 15 Republican governors issued a joint letter urging Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo to release the 2020 Census redistricting data “as soon as possible.” Included among those was Gov. Kay Ivey. The letter warns that the nearly six-month delay releasing the data has made state legislatures unable to redraw district lines prior to […]

Tuesday, State Rep. Chip Brown (R-Hollinger’s Island) announced he was seeking a second term in the Alabama Legislature. The freshman lawmaker represents Alabama’s House District 105, which includes the southern portion of Mobile County. Among Brown’s signature accomplishments of his first term include passage of Aniah’s Law and the Sexual Assault Survivors Bill of Rights.

It has been three weeks since a deadline has come and gone for Alabama to close on the lease-build option initially proposed by Gov. Kay Ivey. Given an inability for the private contractors behind the deal to secure funding, Ivey and leadership from both chambers of the Alabama Legislature have been exploring new options. Among […]

Given it has become the hot political topic of the day, the attention given to Critical Race Theory in Alabama regarding public schools should come as no surprise. The issue has led State Rep. Chris Pringle (R-Mobile) to file legislation to ban the teaching of the theory, which argues all the country’s institutions are racist […]

Questions about so-called Critical Race Theory and whether or not it should be taught in Alabama’s public schools are causing some to take a closer look at racism and its existence in our nation’s sacred institutions. During an appearance on Alabama Public Television’s “Capitol Journal,” State Senate Minority Leader Bobby Singleton (D-Greensboro) weighed in on […]

State Rep. Shane Stringer’s (R-Citronelle) dispute with Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran over the so-called constitutional carry issue has been well documented, and it ultimately cost him his position with the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office. However, it also may very well have catapulted him into front-runner status for that position, which is up for election […]

Although news leaked out last week via social media, State Rep. Andrew Sorrell (R-Muscle Shoals) has made it official and formally announced he would seek the Republican Party’s nomination for State Auditor for the 2022 election cycle. Sorrell, a freshman legislator, narrowly won his 2018 election by flipping a traditional Democrat-leaning district held by former […]

One of the talking points used by opponents of voter identification at the polling precinct is that some voters may not be able to obtain a photo ID and could be denied the ability to vote in a particular election. To limit that as a possible hurdle for eligible voters, Secretary of State John Merrill […]

After much speculation, Gov. Kay Ivey announced her intentions to seek another term as governor in 2022 earlier this month. Despite what were perceived to be controversial positions on pushing the Rebuild Alabama Act that raised the gasoline tax, her handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in determining what could remain open and closed and a […]

Alabama’s post-COVID pandemic economic recovery seems to be humming along based on data released Friday by the Alabama Department of Labor. According to a press release, Department of Labor Secretary Fitzgerald Washington revealed Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted May unemployment rate is 3.4%, down from April’s rate of 3.6%. The 3.4% rate tops the May 2020 […]

For the first time in nearly a decade, the Alabama Education Association (AEA) seemingly flexed its muscle at the end of the 2021 legislative session by successfully pushing through a two-year delay to the Literacy Act, which mandates children be able to read at a third grade level before proceeding to the fourth grade. Gov. […]

The sparks continue to fly in the very early stages of the race for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat on next year’s general election ballot. Although it has been just over a week since former Business Council of Alabama president Katie Britt formally announced her candidacy for U.S. Senate, she and her […]

It’s 510 days until Alabamians go to vote for governor. However, the campaign is underway for Gov. Kay Ivey, who made her intentions to seek reelection known earlier this month. This week, she picked up one of her first major endorsements of the campaign cycle from Manufacture Alabama, a trade association dedicated to the interests […]

Earlier this month, U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) finally served his colleague U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) notice of a lawsuit alleging Brooks was responsible for the January 6 Capitol Hill riot after a back-and-forth played out in the media. The process server, Christian Seklecki of Georgia, was able to deliver service at Brooks’ home […]

Last December, the U.S. Department of Justice initiated long-threatened legal action against Alabama for its prison conditions, alleging they were in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution. Policymakers insist part of the solution to countering the suit is new prison construction, although some on the Democrat side of the aisle in […]

Former U.S. ambassador to Slovenia Lynda Blanchard argues she is the true so-called “outsider” candidate in the race for Alabama’s U.S. Senate seat up in 2022. On Tuesday, Blanchard appeared on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends” to discuss the numerous vacancies in the Biden administration’s diplomatic corps around the world, in particular ambassadorships, which […]

It has been nearly a week since former Business Council of Alabama head Katie Britt announced her intentions to seek the Republican nomination for Alabama’s 2022 U.S. Senate election. While there is a little over 11 months until Alabama Republicans go to cast a ballot, one of the issues sure to weigh on their decision […]

Before running into political obstacles preventing a line of financing, Gov. Kay Ivey’s administration had put a lot of prep work into her lease-build prison plan, which now relies on the Alabama Legislature for a funding mechanism. Much of that work had to do with the design of the physical facilities, which would have been […]

On Monday, U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks’ (R-Huntsville) U.S. Senate campaign unveiled one of the more significant endorsements to date in the race’s early stages for the GOP nomination for Alabama’s 2022 U.S. Senate contest. The endorsement, while not totally unexpected, came from the Club for Growth, an entity that has been very active in Alabama […]

As the Ivey administration continues to be confronted with obstacles to solving the state’s prison dilemma, law enforcement in all 67 counties is suffering in the meantime. Inmates that have long since been sentenced to time in state prisons remain in county jails as the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) sorts through problems dealing with […]

It has been roughly two weeks since the June 1 funding deadline for a lease-build prison plan has come and gone, which has forced a course change for the Ivey administration on the issue. Last week, leadership from both the State House and State Senate met with Gov. Kay Ivey to help determine what that […]

Last week, Florida’s Board of Education banned so-called “critical race theory” from its public schools, and it is a move State Rep. Chris Pringle (R-Mobile) hopes to follow in Alabama. Critical race theory, a belief that racism is ingrained in some of America’s sacred institutions, is widely panned by critics because it distorts and weaponizes […]

Earlier this year, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced a commission to rename the military bases named for those that served in the Confederacy. Among those under consideration for renaming are 10 U.S. Army installations, including Daleville’s Fort Rucker, named for Confederate Gen. Edmund W. Rucker, who would later become an early Birmingham industrialist. In an […]

Earlier this year, the Air Force said the preferred location for U.S. Space Command headquarters would be Huntsville’s Redstone Arsenal. Currently, the headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base near Colorado Springs, which was among several other installations in Colorado and around the country in competition with Redstone Arsenal. Despite drawing protests from the likes of […]