For six days a year, the Talladega Superspeedway, off I-20 in northern Talladega County, is one of Alabama’s biggest tourist attractions. The numbers bear it out. Nearly 400,000 people, 73 percent of whom were from out of state, attended a race at Talladega in 2017. “You have to figure with our crowds, 73 […]

  During his four seasons at Auburn University in the 1980s, former college and professional basketball standout Chuck Person led the Tigers to three NCAA tournament appearances and remains the all-time scoring leader in the school’s history with 2,311 points. More recently, for three seasons he was an assistant coach at Auburn under current head […]

  For more than four decades, the Tennessee Valley Authority’s inactive Bellefonte Nuclear Power Plant has been a part of the Jackson County skyline. Situated in Hollywood, just to the northeast of Scottsboro off U.S. Highway 72, the plant’s cooling towers can be seen for miles away in all directions. Initially, construction began on the plant […]

  According to a report from Politico’s Andrew Restuccia and Daniel Strauss, former Sen. Luther Strange is planning a return to Washington, D.C., where he had a short-lived tenure in the U.S. Senate, in addition to a very long lobbying career prior to coming back to Alabama in the early part of the last decade. Strange […]

  MONTGOMERY — The Alabama Republican Party voted to “indefinitely postpone” consideration of a resolution that would have censured Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Tuscaloosa) for not supporting former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore in the 2017 U.S. Senate special election. Strong attendance at the 2018 ALGOP Winter Meeting ????#ALPolitics #GOP pic.twitter.com/EUpLA8L0n3 — ALGOP (@ALGOP) […]

  MONTGOMERY — Friday night after a packed room watched Fox News Channel’s Pete Hegseth rally attendees at the Alabama Republican Party’s Winter Dinner, party chairman Terry Lathan said there was cause for optimism for the party. A lot of new faces were in attendance at the annual gathering, which was likely a product of many […]

  MONTGOMERY — Friday night at the Alabama Republican Party’s Winter Dinner, Fox News Channel’s Pete Hegseth, a co-host on “Fox & Friends Weekend,” offered up a serving of conservative red meat to the at least 600 in attendance at the Renaissance Hotel and Spa. He hit a number of topics dealing with obstacles conservatives have […]

Thursday morning at the Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce’s Eggs and Issues breakfast at the Alabama Activity Center, Rep. Martha Roby (R-Montgomery) offered her views on the push for more gun regulation in the wake of last week’s mass shooting in Parkland, Fla. Roby warned against reacting with legislation. “You can’t legislate against evil,” she […]

    On Saturday, Talladega Superspeedway will host the first Alabama Wildlife Federation (AWF) cook-off for 2018. The event will feature delicacies made with wild game, and it will give attendees a chance to see Talladega Superspeedway from an entirely different perspective. Tickets for the cook-off are $40 for one ticket or $50 for two, […]

  SCOTTSBORO — Tuesday night, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) took on all comers at a town hall event in the northeastern corner of Alabama during a question-and-answer session. One question posed to Brooks from a woman at the Scottsboro City Hall event dealt with health care. She referenced a May 2017 interview Brooks had with CNN’s […]

  Monday at the Xante Corporation in Mobile, Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope) made an appearance to help hand out $1,200 bonuses to company employees. Byrne credited the tax legislation signed into law by President Donald Trump late last year for making those bonuses possible. “It’s a way of saying, by working together we were able to give […]

  Friday on ESPN’s “First Take,” former Auburn University basketball standout and NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkey announced he would be launching a vocational school initiative to train black plumbers, electricians and car mechanics. Barkley, who also co-hosts TNT’s “Inside the NBA,” lamented that millennials tend to be opposed to occupations that involve manual […]

(Opinion) The horrible shooting in Parkland, Fla. yesterday isn’t the first, and it almost certainly won’t be the last. At least 17 people were killed when a 19-year-old man opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in south Florida on Wednesday afternoon. Fourteen were wounded with five of those facing life-threatening injuries. The suspect […]

  Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) warns President Donald Trump’s proposed infrastructure plan, which includes selling off some federal assets in Alabama, could hurt Alabama more than it helps. On Wednesday, Jones offered a statement to Mobile NBC affiliate WPMI regarding the White House proposal, which called it “more of a wish-list” and a “non-starter.” […]

  Tuesday at the White House press briefing, Birmingham-based Protective Life got a shoutout from White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders for a minimum wage hike and a bonus attributed to the Trump tax cuts. Sanders also noted that “not a single Democrat supported” this legislation. “Many of you probably saw Protective Life Corporation’s […]

  MOBILE — One of the biggest questions for revelers on Fat Tuesday was just how aggressive one of the Port City’s oldest Mardi Gras krewes would be with their signage on the heels of a controversial 2017 effort. After last year’s Mardi Gras, critics had voiced their disapproval of the Comic Cowboys’ float signage, […]

In a statement released Monday afternoon, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Saks) ripped the “liberal media elite” for its coverage of the North Korean presence at the Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang. Rogers singled out CNN and The New York Times and argued Kim Jong-un’s sister Kim Yo Jong should not be “romanticized,” given she is not just part of […]

  Perhaps he was looking to make a fresh start, or maybe he didn’t want all of his outspoken liberal anti-Trump views on display for the world. Whatever the reason, shortly after Jefferson County Circuit Judge Bob Vance qualified as a Democrat to run for Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice, he deleted all of his […]

  Early Friday, Congress voted to end a short-lived federal government shutdown. With the exception of Reps. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) and Gary Palmer (R-Hoover), the entire Alabama congressional delegation voted “yes” on the two-year budget agreement that ended this shutdown. In an appearance on Birmingham Talk 99.5’s “Matt & Aunie Show,” Palmer explained his “no” […]

  In an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Your World” on Wednesday, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) ripped the bipartisan budget deal reached in the U.S. Senate. The deal reached on a bipartisan basis would raise defense spending by $80 billion in FY 2018 and by $85 billion in FY 2019. Nondefense spending would increase by […]

  Tuesday, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Saks) took to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to highlight the recent announcement from Alexander City-based Russell Lands that it would be awarding $500 bonuses to its employees in response to the passage of tax legislation by the GOP-led Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump. […]

  Tuesday on MSNBC, Rep. Terri Sewell (D-AL), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, rejected the Trump White House’s use of executive privilege to prevent former presidential chief strategist Steve Bannon from testifying before her committee. Sewell insists the committee’s question for Bannon will be tied to a period before Donald Trump was president. […]

    (Opinion) Last summer, Spanish Fort High School teacher Gene Ponder made national headlines when he committed the unforgivable sin of including authors like Ann Coulter, Ron Paul, Thomas Sowell and Ronald Reagan on an AP Government/Economics class summer reading list. As you might imagine, even in one of the most conservative counties in […]

  Tuesday in an appearance on NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope) slammed his U.S. Senate counterparts for an inability to fund the federal government on a permanent basis and accused Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) of hijacking the process to gain leverage in negotiations on immigration policy. Byrne explained House Republicans were […]