One of the big mysteries regarding the new Mobile Bayway is how the Alabama Department of Transportation determine a toll and not federal money would be the best means of financing the badly needed thoroughfare’s construction. Reportedly, at one time the federal component was as high as 50% of the bridge’s cost. Now it is […]

Earlier this week, Gov. Kay Ivey signed HB 379 into law, which is a bill that will mandate so-called chemical castration for certain sex offenders as parole condition for early release. The law received headlines all around the country, despite Alabama joining several states, which includes California, Louisiana and Florida, with chemical castration laws already […]

Despite the report from Department of Justice special counsel Robert Mueller not showing the 2016 Trump campaign to have colluded with the Russian government to win the presidency, impeachment talk from Democrats has been on the uptick. Various committees in the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives are taking on investigations into alleged wrongdoing, which could […]

Last week, questions during oral arguments before the Alabama Supreme Court for the appeal of former State House Speaker Mike Hubbard’s ethics conviction drew the attention Alabama media elite. Some were concerned that the line of questioning from the justices was a sign that Hubbard could “walk.” However, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall cautioned against […]

For roughly a week, Alabama faced criticism from those in the national media for the state legislature’s passage of HB 314, known as the Human Life Protection Act, which banned abortion in the state with only a few exceptions. However, the portrayal in the national media did not line up with the public’s sentiment according […]

After all the conflict, ridicule and a disgruntled University of Alabama donor’s shenanigans after the Alabama legislature passed the Human Life Protection Act, which bans abortions with few exceptions, it turns out the abortion issue is not as hot-button in the eyes of Alabamians that perhaps it once was according to a new poll. A […]

Senator Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) says contrary to some reports, he is not on the “impeach Donald Trump” bandwagon and to say he is open to it was a “misinterpretation.” During an appearance on Huntsville radio’s WVNN on Friday, Alabama’s Democratic U.S. Senator said he did not think there should be an impeachment inquiry. “I’m […]

MADISON – Up until now, we knew former Auburn head football coach Tommy Tuberville was a supporter of President Donald Trump. However, we had not heard many particulars when it came to why he supports the current commander-in-chief. During a wide-ranging and at times impassioned address to the Tennessee Valley Republican Club on Saturday, Tuberville […]

MOBILE – Earlier this year, the Alabama legislature passed the Rebuild Alabama Act during a special session, which was almost immediately signed into law by Gov. Kay Ivey upon its passage. With it came one of the most debated issues of the year, an increase in the state’s fuel tax. However, it also included a […]

It has been three months since two tornadoes struck Lee County, and according to State Sen. Tom Whatley (R-Auburn), there is still work to do. However, those efforts got a big boost when Congress finally passed a $19.1 billion disaster relief package, which will not only help Lee County but other disaster-stricken areas around the […]

Almost every night on either MSNBC or CNN, viewers are exposed to any number of Democratic members of Congress promoting the idea of President Donald Trump’s impeachment. Although the numbers for impeachment are nowhere near the 218 votes required in the U.S. House of Representatives for impeachment proceedings, those voices far outnumber those in Congress […]

One of the most vulnerable venues to mass shootings in recent years nationwide has been places of worship, specifically churches. Over the past several years, Rep. Lynn Greer (R-Rogersville) has attempted to push legislation that would allow churches to bolster protection against these threats by giving security personnel protections similar to what’s contained in Alabama’s […]

Efforts by the Alabama legislature to change the current ethics laws regarding state officials and employees were met with some opposition during the 2019 legislative general session. Leading the way on the effort in 2019 was State Sen. Greg Albritton (R-Atmore), but had his bid declared dead for the session back in April by Senate […]

It’s 275 days until Alabama Republicans head to the polls to vote for their preference on who will represent the GOP on the November 2020 general election ballot. Even this far out, it is a solid bet incumbent President Donald Trump will win the 2020 Republican presidential primary in Alabama. How might that assumption impact […]

MUSCLE SHOALS — Despite having voted with President Donald Trump nearly 97% of the time over his career (and 100% of the time in 2019), there’s one thing that continues to dog U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope), a 2020 candidate for U.S. Senate, regarding his relationship with the current commander-in-chief. Back in October 2016, Byrne […]

Some congressional Democrats are using the occasion of the Justice Department special counsel probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign official end, which included Robert Mueller’s public remarks and resignation, to call for President Donald Trump’s impeachment. However, U.S. Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) does not think those Democrats pushing for impeachment have the […]

Just the suggestion of former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore making another run at the U.S. Senate draws adverse reactions from some in the political class, and in recent days that has shown to be the case. In 2017, Moore lost by nearly 22,000 votes, a margin of 1.7%, to now-Sen. Doug Jones […]

During a wide-ranging interview with Huntsville radio’s WVNN on Friday, former Gov. Jim Folsom, Jr., who also was Alabama’s longest-serving lieutenant governor, discussed economic development in the state and how it has evolved since he was governor in the early-1990s. It was while Folsom was governor that Mercedes-Benz announced its intentions in 1993 to locate […]

With the clock running out on the 2019 legislative session, State Rep. Andrew Sorrell (R-Muscle Shoals) ran out of time to get legislation that would end the requirement for legal notices to be published in newspapers, one of the areas he identified as wasteful earlier this year. The Colbert County Republican legislator told Huntsville’s WVNN […]

It has been two weeks since Gov. Kay Ivey signed HB 314, also known as the Human Life Protection Act, which bans abortion with few exceptions, into law. While immediately backlash appears to have subsided, others are getting an opportunity to weigh in on it. The objective of the law is to serve as a […]

Last week, State Rep. Arnold Mooney (R-Indian Springs) introduced a request to formally “censure and condemn” his colleague State Rep. John Rogers (D-Birmingham) for comments Rogers made earlier this month on the Alabama House of Representatives floor during the debate over HB 314, also known as the Human Life Protection Act. That legislation was signed […]

With tragedy already rocking the Alabama sports world this weekend, the state took another hit with the loss of former University of Alabama Crimson Tide quarterback Bart Starr’s passing on Sunday. Starr, an NFL Hall of Fame inductee who played for the Green Bay Packers, died at age 85 in Birmingham. Since suffering a stroke […]

The most significant political controversy that has consumed Southwest Alabama in recent days is not the abortion ban or the Alabama legislature’s failure to work toward a lottery like much of the state, but the threat of a toll on the proposed new I-10 Mobile Bayway Bridge connecting Mobile and Baldwin Counties. According to reports, […]

UPDATE: According to the Opelika-Auburn News, Rod Bramblett has died as a result of injuries from an automobile accident in Auburn on Saturday. Initially, according to multiple reports Saturday, Bramblett was critically injured in a two-vehicle accident Saturday night in Auburn. Also according to reports, his wife Paula was pronounced dead after being transported to […]