In past elections, Rep. Martha Roby (R-Montgomery) had made short work of winning the Republican Party’s nod, even when she faced opposition on her right flank. In 2010, she defeated Rick Barber on the way to her party’s nod, despite the controversial “Gather Your Armies” ad from Barber that got national attention. In the general […]

Earlier this week,  the Expect More for Montgomery Public Schools Campaign, a group that describes itself as a “diverse, bipartisan coalition of Montgomery-area young professionals” offered its endorsements for Montgomery County Board of Education. Expect More explained these endorsements were an effort to elect new leadership for the beleaguered Montgomery public schools. “The Montgomery Public School board […]

There’s an election primary next week, and many of the candidates vying for the Republican nomination in Alabama want you to know one thing: They like Donald Trump. If you watch the political TV and radio commercials airing in Alabama’s five major media markets, you will learn these GOP candidates go beyond just supporting our […]

Late Tuesday, the Alabama Republican Party announced it had “voted unanimously” to censure Public Service Commision, Place 1 Republican hopeful Jim Bonner amid the various controversies stemming from comments he had made on social media and the airwaves around the state of Alabama. In a statement, Alabama Republican Party chairwoman Terry Lathan acknowledged Bonner’s First […]

While some Democrats are using the White House’s announcement that the summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un was canceled as an opportunity to take shots at President Donald Trump, Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) is taking the high road. On Thursday, Alabama’s junior U.S. Senator reacted to Trump’s statement saying it […]

Wednesday on the “Rick & Bubba” radio show, Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill explained how he had to defend Alabama’s voter identification law to groups like the NAACP over the past year, and how he has been successful at it. Earlier this year, a federal judge dismissed the suit brought by Greater Birmingham Ministries, […]

On Wednesday, NASCAR announced the five inductees who will make up its 2019 Hall of Fame class. Among those is Hueytown native Davey Allison, the son of Bobby Allison, who is also a NASCAR Hall of Famer. Allison compiled 19 race wins and 14 pole positions in stock car racing premiere series before his death in a tragic […]

Alabama is in danger of losing one of its seven congressional seats, and it’s your fault. That is according to a Wednesday editorial that appeared in two north Alabama newspapers, the Decatur Daily and Florence’s TimesDaily. The editorial board of the Daily and the TimesDaily reacted to a lawsuit filed by the state of Alabama […]

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the syndicated “Rick & Bubba” radio program, co-host Bill “Bubba” Bussey called out Yellowhammer News for highlighting his co-host Rick Burgess’ comments about the 2018 gubernatorial race and neglecting to mention Bussey was in “lockstep” with Burgess’ views. Bussey and Burgess are both supporters of Republican gubernatorial hopeful Scott Dawson and Republican […]

A recent broadcast of National Public Radio’s “On the Media” took an in-depth look at Africatown, a community three miles north of downtown Mobile that was built by a group of West African slaves brought illegally to the United States on The Clotilda in 1860. The episode of “On the Media” hosted by Brooke Gladstone […]

Friday on the Birmingham-based “Rick & Bubba” radio show, co-host Rick Burgess sounded off on what the future may hold if current Gov. Kay Ivey wins the Republican gubernatorial nomination next month and is in a head-to-head match-up with potential Democratic Party nominee Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox. Burgess, a supporter of Republican gubernatorial hopeful Scott […]

Republican gubernatorial hopeful Scott Dawson appeared on Birmingham’s Talk 99.5 “Matt & Aunie” radio show Friday to discuss the controversy tied to his efforts to highlight the potential misappropriation of Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs (ADECA) grant money to the LGBTQ activist group Free2Be. Dawson initially raised the issue in two press conferences earlier […]

Friday on Birmingham’s Talk 99.5 “Matt & Aunie” radio show, outgoing State Rep. Patricia Todd (D-Birmingham) gave her first remarks since posting a tweet that publicly acknowledged the existence of rumors that Gov. Kay Ivey was gay. Ivey promptly dismissed Todd’s claim by calling it a disgusting lie. And also, as a result of that […]

Thursday on the “Rick & Bubba” radio program, Republican gubernatorial hopeful Scott Dawson elaborated on why he raised the issue of Gov. Kay Ivey’s distribution of federal grant money through the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs (ADECA) to Free2Be, an organization described as an LGBTQ activist group that has an apparent questionable past. Earlier this […]

Thursday on his syndicated “Rick & Bubba” radio show program, co-host Rick Burgess, a supporter of Republican gubernatorial hopeful Scott Dawson, speculated on what might have caused Alabama State Rep. Patricia Todd (D-Birmingham) to post a tweet questioning the sexuality of Gov. Kay Ivey. Burgess’s comments were in response to a caller’s remarks about Todd’s tweet. The […]

Wednesday in an interview with Birmingham NBC affiliate WVTM, Gov. Kay Ivey (R-AL) denied being gay in response to a tweet from Rep. Patricia Todd (D-Birmingham) posted a night earlier. A spokesman for Ivey immediately responded with a statement and called it “a disgusting lie being pushed by a paid liberal political hack.” She elaborated […]

Late Tuesday afternoon, Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) announced he was not going to support President Donald Trump’s nominee Gina Haspel to be the director of the CIA. Jones cited Haspel’s “role in programs that conducted torture” as a reason for his decision to not support her confirmation. “After spending several weeks carefully evaluating all […]

On Monday, the Supreme Court announced its 6-3 ruling striking down a 1992 federal law that prevented most states from legalizing sports betting. The high court wrote in its decision that Congress can regulate sports gambling directly. However, if it elects not to do so, then each state can determine its regulations on sports betting. […]

On Saturday, Consolidated Publishing’s Anniston Star announced Bob Davis was stepping down from his role as the paper’s publisher and editor to accept a job as High Plains Public Radio executive director, a network which serves parts Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas. Davis has been part of Consolidated Publishing, the parent company of the Star […]

Saturday at the Mid-Alabama Republican Club at Vestavia Hills Public Library, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Tuscaloosa) fielded questions about the Department of Justice’s special counsel probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election headed by former FBI Director Robert Mueller. Shelby was asked if he would call for an end of the “witch-hunt on President Trump,” […]

Last week, the Alabama Education Association (AEA) teachers’ union lost a pivotal case at the Alabama Supreme Court. Specifically, the court dismissed the AEA’s challenge of interim State Education Superintendent Dr. Ed Richardson’s authority to close and sell the Montgomery Public School (MPS) system’s underutilized property. To recap, elements of the MPS system have been […]

In a letter sent to Federal Election Commission acting general counsel Lisa J. Stevenson on the FEC to allow candidates to use campaign funds on childcare. She argued such a move would “break down barriers” that prevent women from running for office and work toward making Congress a body “that reflects the diversity of the […]

On Wednesday, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) and 16 other members of the House of Representatives issued a letter calling on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to end special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election by July 5. In a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives on […]

On Monday, Doug Turner, the campaign treasurer for Sen. Doug Jones’ (D-Mountain Brook) 2017 special election campaign, responded to an allegation that first surfaced in a New York Post report in which their campaign was accused of receiving an “illegally oversized campaign donation” from Rosie O’Donnell. Turner said in a statement to Yellowhammer News the […]