Friday in an interview with Mobile’s FM Talk 106.5, Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) talked about the upcoming midterm elections and what that could mean for his party, especially coming off of his 2017 U.S. Senate special election upset victory. With a full slate of Democrats vying for statewide and congressional offices, Jones argued the […]

Election night this November is probably going to be a win for Democrats. That’s how it usually goes in midterm elections – the party that won the White House suffers a setback two years later. It won’t help the GOP’s cause with President Donald Trump, still underwater in approval polling and a revved-up Democratic Party […]

TALLADEGA — The wins have been few and far between as of late for Joey Logano, one of NASCAR’s premier drivers, but he ended that 36-race winless streak at the Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday. After the “big one” crash late in the race on lap 166, the field settled down and coalesced into a single-file pack […]

TALLADEGA — This isn’t Auburn head football coach Gus Malzahn’s first time as one of the honorees of Talladega Superspeedway’s marquee spring event, but it was the first time he said “the most famous words in motorsports.” Malzahn had grand marshal duties for Sunday’s Geico 500 got to give the command for NASCAR drivers competing […]

TALLADEGA — He may not be an expert on stock car racing, but does drive a fast gator-skin Lamborghini in his spare time. On Sunday before the drop of the official start of Talladega Superspeedway’s Geico 500, WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder, affectionately known as “The Bronze Bomber,” will lead the field to the green […]

TALLADEGA – What ended up being a failed risky bet for at least one driver opened the door for another driver to have the biggest moment of his career in Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series race. Spencer Gallagher, the driver of GMS Racing’s number 23 Allegiant Chevrolet, led the first lap of his career at the […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s 9:30 a.m. Wednesday morning and business as usual on Capitol Hill. A line extends out the door of the Rayburn House Office Building with a mix of tourists, convention attendees, lobbyist and congressional staffers waiting to clear security. They’re here for any number of reasons — a White House or U.S. […]

As goes the nursery tale of Br’er Rabbit and the briar patch, Br’er Fox sets a trap and catches the cunning Br’er Rabbit. Figuring that he is done for, Br’er Rabbit devises an escape plan. He begs the Fox not to throw him in the briar patch, given its threatening thorns. “Oh please Br’er Fox, whatever […]

Late Wednesday afternoon, Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) revealed he would be voting to confirm CIA Director Mike Pompeo to be the next secretary of state. Jones joins Democratic colleagues Sens. Joe Donnelly (D-IN), Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) in crossing the aisle to support Pompeo’s nomination.

On Wednesday, Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) announced he was joining two of his Alabama congressional colleagues and calling for the end of the Trump administration’s tariff on newsprint. In a letter to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Alabama’s junior U.S. Senator cited the impact the tariff will have on those newspapers’ operations and warned there […]

Early Monday, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) released a copy of a letter he submitted to Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook), to vote to confirm current CIA Director Mike Pompeo to be secretary of state. As of Saturday, a spokesman from Jones’ office told Yellowhammer News Alabama’s junior senator had not made a decision on which […]

With Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) publicly opposed to CIA Director Mike Pompeo’s confirmation to be Trump’s secretary of state, Pompeo is seeking to win votes from Democratic U.S. Senators to get across the finish line. Among the possible Democratic targets for Pompeo are Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) and Alabama’s own Sen. […]

BIRMINGHAM — The gubernatorial debate HOSTED by AL(dot)com’s Reckon, Wednesday at the Lyric Theatre, went about as expected. There was a little spice though. All three of the four GOP candidates weighed in on the recent spate of student-teacher romances and Alabama’s age of consent. We also learned the candidates’ positions on raising the gas […]

Although Gov. Kay Ivey hasn’t won a gubernatorial election, she is playing this one like a seasoned pro. If you haven’t heard (or care), Ivey is taking a lot of heat for not participating in the numerous Republican gubernatorial primary debates, which for some reason are all in Birmingham. (That latest count is three in […]

Historic but not pretentious – that might be how you could describe Sheffield, one of the four municipalities that make up Northwest Alabama’s Quad Cities. It’s a Wednesday in mid-April. I had scheduled a sit-down interview with Sheffield’s Mayor Ian Sanford to talk about the resurgence of his city’s downtown. What I ended up getting […]

TUSCALOOSA – Keeping the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in charge of regulating the Internet is a key in the net neutrality debate for Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook). Friday at an almost-full Ferguson Center auditorium on the campus of the University of Alabama, Jones hosted a forum on net neutrality and argued that Internet service […]

Over the last few weeks, several smaller Alabama newspapers have cried foul over President Donald Trump’s tariff on Canadian newsprint, which will significantly raise their costs. According to Jackson County Sentinel editor Brandon Cox, newsprint, which is sold in increments of tons, will increase from $600 per ton to nearly $800 per ton, and that could […]

Over the past several days, at least three Alabama newspapers have warned that President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs could come at a significant cost to their businesses. The Cullman Times, The Selma Times-Journal and The Jackson County Sentinel say a tariff levied against Canadian-manufactured newsprint at the behest of a single newsprint mill in the […]

Sunday on Twitter, Auburn University head basketball coach Bruce Pearl reiterated his support for Israel by posing the question, if his hometown Boston or his current residence Auburn were threatened by a hostile power, what would be the appropriate reaction? Pearl made those comments about a Jerusalem Post story published on Saturday that quoted Ayatollah […]

Environmentalists are an emotional and petty lot. Never was there so much anguish in the aftermath of a presidential election as there was from the environmental left with Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton a year and a half ago. For the first several months after Trump was sworn into office, environmental activists posing as […]

If you have not watched cable news in the last few days, consider yourself lucky. If you have, you have probably seen a video compilation of Sinclair Media anchors all reading from the same script, denouncing “biased and false news” on social media. Deadspin—the sports blog to which many of Gawker’s potty-mouthed lefty reporters fled […]

GREENVILLE — Although many Alabamians seem to welcome President Donald Trump’s pushback against the shift to a global economy, there could be consequences for some of Alabama’s small towns. In an interview with Yellowhammer News recently, Greenville Mayor Dexter McLendon said Trump’s proposed tariffs on imported aluminum and steel would have consequences for Butler County’s economy. […]

GREENVILLE – On Thursday, Rep. Martha Roby (R-Montgomery) spoke at a luncheon hosted by the Greenville Rotary Club and offered attendees an update on what was happening in Washington, D.C. Among the topics were keeping the government funded, economic development, the soon-to-expire farm bill and infrastructure. Following the event, Roby talked to Yellowhammer News about […]

MOBILE — As this year’s legislative session winds down, Alabama gubernatorial hopeful State Sen. Bill Hightower (R-Mobile) finds himself juggling the duties of running a statewide campaign and the responsibilities of being an Alabama state senator with the legislature in a rush to adjourn for 2018. With the June Republican primary around the corner, the […]