Thursday night, long-time WALA FOX 10 news anchor Bob Grip signed off for the last time as he is retiring after a 35-year career on television in Mobile. Over the years, Grip had become a well-known entity and a household name in southwest Alabama. He is perhaps known to folks in Alabama outside of the Mobile-Pensacola, […]

Thursday during a conference call with reporters, Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) reacted to a report from the New York Times published late Wednesday detailing a so-called “secret experiment” conducted by “Democratic tech experts” and carried out on social media to interfere with the 2017 U.S. Senate special election in Alabama. Jones expressed that he was […]

Small towns are scattered throughout South Alabama. To many, they are just blurs or brief stopping points during trips to Florida’s Gulf Coast beaches. They come in different sizes and have funny names like Florala, Elba, Samson, Slocomb, McKenzie, Enterprise, Opp, Hartford and Brewton. They are not unlike any of Alabama’s numerous other small towns. […]

On Friday’s broadcast of Alabama Public Television’s “Capitol Journal,” State Senate Pro Tem Del Marsh (R-Anniston) acknowledged his interest in a run for the U.S. Senate in 2020. As a candidate, Marsh would be vying for the Republican nomination in a race that would likely pit him against incumbent Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook). Marsh […]

Breitbart News TV editor and Yellowhammer News contributor Jeff Poor and Calhoun Community College professor Dr. Waymon Burke take you through this week’s biggest political stories, including: — Michael Cohen’s sentencing and its impact on Trump. — How tariffs are hurting Alabama farmers and automakers but helping steel manufacturers. — What’s going on with Hoover’s […]

In the newest episode of AL(dot)com’s Reckon podcast, health care reporter Amy Yurkanin offers her findings from a deep dive into former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ early years as a federal prosecutor for the Southern District of Alabama. There wasn’t much included in the borderline-smearing Reckon podcast that was complimentary of the Mobile native. Yurkanin, […]

During an interview on this week’s broadcast of Alabama Public Television’s “Capitol Journal,” State Sen. Gerald Allen (R-Tuscaloosa) confirmed he was revamping an effort to end a requirement for citizens to have a permit to conceal carry in the state of Alabama. Allen, who appeared alongside his son, recently elected State Rep. Wes Allen (R-Troy), […]

During a conference call with reporters on Thursday, Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) said in 2019 he did not expect any congressional business to be held “hostage” by President Donald Trump for border wall funding. After commemorating the one-year anniversary of his special election upset win over Republican Roy Moore, Jones was asked to react […]

There’s no question that the last two weeks have been trying for Hoover retailers in the wake of the tragic shooting at the Riverchase Galleria on Thanksgiving night. With protests flaring up over dissatisfaction with law enforcement’s handling of the incident’s investigation, the circumstances have been trying for local retailers that were already dealing with […]

On Friday’s episode of Alabama Public Television’s “Capitol Journal,” Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall downplayed the departure of now-former Deputy Attorney General Matt Hart. Hart formerly led the AG’s Special Prosecutions Division and was perhaps best known for his prosecution of former Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard. In the interim, Hart had become somewhat of […]

In an appearance on Alabama Public Television’s “Capitol Journal” on Friday,” Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall discussed the ongoing investigation into the shooting at the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover on Thanksgiving night and the events that have followed in its wake. Marshall told “Capitol Journal” host Don Dailey his office didn’t have any direct involvement […]

In an interview discussing the Thanksgiving night shooting, Hoover Mayor Frank Brocato encouraged people to support local businesses. It is a call that comes despite the lingering cloud shadowing a city that has erupted in protests over the killing of Emantic Bradford, Jr. He also made an astounding claim by calling the Riverchase Galleria “the safest […]

MONTGOMERY — Around lunchtime on Thursday, the attendees of this year’s Association of County Commissions of Alabama’s annual legislative conference were departing the Renaissance Hotel on Tallapoosa Street and headed back to home counties. Upon their departures, most of those county commissioners seemed to be walking away with an agreement that acquiring additional revenue for […]

ANDALUSIA — For the last few decades, manufacturing has been on the decline in Alabama. This trend is especially true when it comes to textiles in the southern portion of the state. Dalton, Ga.-based Shaw Industries officially bucked that trend with a formal announcement on Wednesday that the company was putting $250 million into its Andalusia carpet […]

MONTGOMERY — Often when the topic of infrastructure concerns is raised by Alabama politicos, the discussion will almost immediately go to road and bridge deficiencies around the state.  This is especially true as the Alabama legislature is likely to consider raising the gasoline tax in the 2019 session to finance improvements to the state’s transportation system. […]

MONTGOMERY — It’s a near certainty that when the Alabama legislature convenes next year, an effort to raise the state’s gasoline tax will be front and center. An adjustment to the tax, which was last done in 1992, is seen as a means to finance infrastructure needs across the state of Alabama, and the start […]

ANDALUSIA — Wednesday at an appearance formally announcing Dalton, Ga.-based Shaw Industries $250 million investment in its Covington County facility, Gov. Kay Ivey reacted to the ongoing situation in Hoover. Hoover is at the center of turmoil after the Thanksgiving night shooting death of Emantic Bradford Jr. at the Riverchase Galleria allegedly by Hoover Police, which […]

Tuesday during Birmingham’s Talk 99.5 “Matt & Aunie Show,” co-host Matt Murphy sounded off on the city of Hoover’s response to protests at local businesses in the wake Thanksgiving night’s shooting at the Riverchase Galleria. Murphy questioned what impact these protests are having on local businesses and why the city hasn’t taken a more active […]

Before his post-Galleria shooting exploits, no one had ever heard of Carlos Chaverst, Jr. There was no reason to have heard of him. It remains to be the case that no one should know who Chaverst is. However, the media covering this sad and tragic chapter of Hoover history have a knack for tracking this […]

During Friday’s broadcast of Alabama Public Television’s “Capitol Journal,” State Auditor Jim Zeigler weighed in on his possible opponents should he decide to run for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat up in the 2020 election. That seat is currently occupied by Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) and is thought by many to be a […]

Late Friday, TVA issued a statement announcing Nuclear Development LLC, the prospective buyer of Jackson County’s long-dormant Bellefonte nuclear power plant, was unable to meet “its legal obligations” required to complete a $111 million sale. The sale was due to be completed by Nuclear Development on Friday and is viewed by many to be a significant setback […]

Earlier this week, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Saks) was chosen by his Republican colleagues to serve as the ranking member of the U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee once the new Congress convenes early next year. Given the political climate and a Democratic-controlled Congress poised to oppose President Donald Trump, Rogers said this committee would be […]

7. About that border wall: One-third in migrant caravan being treated for health issues — FoxNews.com reports one-third of the migrants in the caravan at the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana are being treated for “respiratory infections, tuberculosis, chickenpox and other serious health issues,” per the Tijuana’s Health Department. — Perhaps the Trump administration should have […]

It was February 1986. Whitney Houston’s “How Will I Know” was at the top of the charts. “Down and Out in Beverly Hills” was the current big hit at the box office. And the Riverchase Galleria, seen by some as the eighth wonder of the world, opened. As the brainchild of developer Jim Wilson, Hoover’s […]