Tuesday on Birmingham radio’s Talk 99.5, State Auditor Jim Zeigler, who is one of the leaders of the effort challenging the proposed I-10 Mobile Bayway toll, spoke out critically of Alabama Department of Transportation director John Cooper. Zeigler blamed Cooper for the tolling proposal and said such type toll proposals were the vision of Cooper […]

HOOVER — Over the past few days, the contest for the 2020 Republican senatorial nomination in Alabama has weathered a mild controversy. On Saturday during a speech to the Shoals Republican Club, former Auburn head football coach Tommy Tuberville, a U.S. Senate candidate, had some criticism of President Donald Trump for a seeming lack of […]

MOULTON — On Tuesday, Lawrence County Republicans got their first glimpse at State Rep. Arnold Mooney (R-Indian Springs), who is seeking Alabama’s U.S. Senatorial GOP nomination in 2020. Despite engaging in a back-and-forth on social media with Republican rival former Auburn head football coach Tommy Tuberville over comments Tuberville made days earlier up the road […]

In an interview with “Alabama’s Morning News” host JT Nysewander on Birmingham radio’s 105.5 WERC on Tuesday, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin spoke about the outbreak of gun violence around the country that not only included recent incidents in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio but in America’s inner-cities as well. Woodfin fielded questions from callers […]

FLORENCE — Make no mistake about it: Former Auburn head football coach Tommy Tuberville does not hold back when something is on his mind, and Saturday morning he backed up that reputation that has followed him from his coaching career and into politics. During an appearance before a meeting of the Shoals Republican Club, Tuberville, […]

On Thursday, State Rep. Will Dismukes (R-Prattville) announced his candidacy for Alabama’s second congressional district, a seat which is currently occupied by Rep. Martha Roby (R-Montgomery), who announced she would not seek reelection in 2020. Dismukes is a native Alabamian and became a two-time All-American pitcher at Faulkner University. On Thursday’s broadcast of Montgomery NewsTalk […]

It would appear that the Alabama Democratic Party has a lot of vocal critics, from the national level down to the local level. And now you can add former Gov. Don Siegelman to that list. During an appearance on Birmingham radio’s Talk 99.5 on Tuesday, Siegelman, Alabama’s last Democrat governor, called his party “pathetic” and […]

Nearly everyone was caught off guard by U.S. Rep. Martha Roby’s (R-Montgomery) announcement last week she would not be seeking reelection in the 2020 election to the seat she had held since the 2010 midterm elections. Among those was her Alabama Republican House colleague, U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville). Brooks warned Roby’s departure, as well […]

CULLMAN — On Saturday afternoon, U.S. Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) offered a briefing of the happenings in Washington, D.C., specifically the Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives, to a meeting of the Alabama Republican Party’s 4th Congressional District members. On the heels of former Department of Justice special counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony before the House Judiciary […]

For many of the critics of the proposed $2.1 billion new Mobile Bay Bridge for Interstate 10, the federal component of the funding has been underwhelming, even as the feds have pledged a $125 million through an Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation. During a conference call with reporters […]

The issue of tolling for the new Mobile Bay Bridge continues to be a dominant political topic in the state of Alabama, and it is not going unnoticed in this early going of Alabama’s 2020 U.S. Senate contest. Even though the decision-making is up to state officials, U.S. Senate candidates are sounding off on the […]

On Monday, the Kentucky State House of Representatives passed a resolution urging its state attorney general Andy Beshear to join Alabama in its lawsuit against the Commerce Department and Census Bureau opposing the inclusion of illegal immigrants in the final census count. The suit was referenced by U.S. Attorney General William Barr earlier this month […]

Thursday during a conference call with reporters, Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) was asked to address Medicaid expansion and its potential future as health care policy in Alabama. Jones touted his SAME Act, an acronym for States Achieving Medicaid Expansion, which has not yet become law. However, it would give states that expanded the entitlement […]

Although it is very early in what Alabama lawmakers hope is HB 314 trek to the Supreme Court, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is putting pieces in place as he prepares to defend a lawsuit filed against the state by ACLU of Alabama and a Huntsville abortion provider. The HB 314 law, also known as […]

By now, you may have heard some of the horror stories reported by the media about the conditions put upon illegal border crossers at the U.S.-Mexico border. According to some outlets, children are “being kept in cages” and are “being forced to drink water from toilets.” However, the conditions are not as adverse as the […]

Every day provides a new chapter for the saga of the new Mobile Bay Bridge toll controversy. The one trend that appears to be certain is the opposition to the toll is growing by the day. With that as a reality, many of the elected officials around Alabama are taking notice and recognizing the toxicity […]

It has been three-and-a-half months since the Department of Justice released its scathing report hammering the state of Alabama for having prisons in violation of the Eighth Amendment and with an implied warning there could be serious consequences if the state doesn’t act to rectify the problem. Although nothing was done in the 2019 general […]

The turmoil within the Alabama Democratic Party over the past year has been well documented. Given the party’s alleged dysfunction, many of Alabama’s Democratic politicians are crying foul and even to the extent that the Democratic National Committee has taken notice. Among those is Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook), whose special election win in 2017 […]

SCOTTSBORO — On Saturday, Republicans in the northeastern corner of Alabama got one of the first glimpses of former Auburn head football coach Tommy Tuberville on the stump. Tuberville, a candidate for Alabama’s U.S. Senate seat up in 2020, spoke at the Young Republicans of Northeast Alabama before an audience of roughly 30 people, including […]

On Friday’s broadcast of Alabama Public Television’s “Capitol Journal,” Alabama Democratic Party chairwoman Nancy Worley reacted to tweets from President Donald Trump attacking “The Squad,” made up of Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). Some deemed the attack “racist,” to which Worley concurred. Worley argued such rhetoric […]

One of the concerns of many regarding the 2020 U.S. Senate race is with the presence of former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore as a candidate, the competition will draw media scrutiny from all over the country. On the eve of Moore’s announcement, national outlets sent reporters to be in Montgomery for his […]

Last week at a campaign stop in Fort Payne, Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill’s remarks during a post-speech question-and-answer session caught the attention of the mainstream media for a reference to “homosexual activities” as a critique of modern television programming. After the remarks were picked up by other media outlets, Merrill, a candidate for […]

By now, you’ve likely heard of “The Squad,” a foursome of freshman congressional Democrats that wield power and influence given their heightened presences in the media. The group, consisting of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN), have also been a problem for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). […]

In American politics, the term “socialism” no longer carries the taboo it once had evidenced by the success of self-proclaimed socialist political candidates on the Democratic side of the aisle. Given these changing times, it is certain to cause Republicans to question socialism in campaigns by sounding the alarm and warning those who are listening […]