Posts by Jeff Poor — Page 67
Last week’s big announcement that Toyota Motor and Mazda Motor Companies would make north Alabama their choice for a $1.6 billion manufacturing facility that would create 4,000 jobs for the region was indeed a shot in the arm for the region’s economy. Reportedly, Alabama’s primary competitor was North Carolina, which was at a disadvantage […]
On Friday, Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope) fielded questions from reporters shortly before a town hall meeting at the city hall in Robertsdale. One of the questions he took concerned a report that President Donald Trump described certain nations as “sh*thole countries” during an immigration policy meeting with a bipartisan group of lawmakers earlier in […]
According to a story from Politico’s Alex Isenstadt, a group is seeking a censure resolution from the Alabama Republican Party’s executive committee against Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Tuscaloosa) for declining to support Roy Moore in last month’s special election against Doug Jones. Jones defeated Moore by a 1.7 percent margin, nearly 23,000 votes, to become Alabama’s […]
In this week’s national Democratic Party address, U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Birmingham) commemorated the upcoming Martin Luther King Day holiday and touted it as a time to emphasize income inequality given in her view King’s vision of equality included economics. “Dr. King saw economic success for all Americans as a keystone of equality,” Sewell said. […]
MONTGOMERY — Wednesday at the RSA Activity Center in the shadow of the Alabama State Capitol, Gov. Kay Ivey made it official by announcing Limestone County would be the new home for a $1.6 billion Toyota-Mazda manufacturing facility. “Today is indeed a great day in the state of Alabama,” Ivey said to the audience assembled for […]
(Opinion) Last week, The Tuscaloosa News’ Drew Taylor reported the University of Alabama would continue its community journalism program at The Anniston Star, a newspaper in the public eye for sexual misconduct allegations committed by its longtime editor H. Brandt Ayers in the 1970s. Monica Watts, the associate vice president for communications at the […]
MONTGOMERY — It was described as the biggest speech of her political career and according to many, Gov. Kay Ivey delivered. Alabama’s governor delivered her first annual state of the state address, which also happens to be her last before this year’s gubernatorial election, at the old House chamber in the state capitol on […]
On Sunday, Huntsville CBS affiliate WHNT featured Scottsboro’s 97-year-old Velma Sebring in its “The Story with Jerry Hayes” segment. What makes Sebring’s story particularly interesting is that she has been teaching Sunday school for 80 years, 75 of those years at the Center Point Baptist Church. “I started when I was 17,” Sebring said […]
Last week, The Anniston Star announced it was severing ties with long-time editor H. Brandt Ayers after a number of sexual misconduct allegations against him surfaced. If you haven’t heard by now, Ayers is accused of spanking female employees decades earlier, which has resulted in his resignation from the board of Consolidated Publishing, the […]
Richard Shelby on Mitt Romney for U.S. Senate: 'I hope he will run --- I would encourage him to run'
Friday in an interview with The Hill, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Tuscaloosa) encouraged former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, to run for the U.S. Senate seat soon to be vacated by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). Shelby told The Hill’s Molly Hooper that Romney would be a good “fit” in the […]
In a press release issued Thursday, the liberal activist group CREDO Action boasted about a petition it claims that more than 72,000 people have signed calling on University of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban to speak out against President Donald Trump. The petition encourages Saban to “disavow” Trump’s criticism of the National Anthem protests […]
Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” the newly sworn-in Sen. Doug Jones (D-Birmingham) suggested his vote would be up for grabs in the U.S. Senate. Jones told host Joe Scarborough he was taking a cue from former Alabama U.S. Sen. Howell Heflin in that he would listen and do his best to reflect the mood of […]
President Donald Trump will attend Monday’s college football national championship game between the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Georgia Bulldogs at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Georgia’ capital city, according to a report from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Greg Bluestein. Bluestein cites “three people with direct knowledge of his plans” and says Trump will be hosted by […]
For well over a hundred years, southwest Alabamians have grappled with getting from Mobile across the Mobile Bay to Baldwin County and back, and that is a problem that predates the founding of the state. If you have made that journey recently, you would know there are a number of ways to cross […]
Saturday morning, the Montgomery Advertiser’s Brian Lyman made a tenuous argument that current U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope) could be blamed for the election of Doug Jones to the U.S. Senate earlier this month. According to a thread initiated by Politico’s Daniel Strauss, the indefatigable Lyman postulates Byrne’s lackluster effort in the 2010 Alabama gubernatorial […]
According to a report from Jeremy Wise of the Dothan Eagle, the tax bill passed by the Republican-led Congress and signed into law earlier this month by President Donald Trump could bring 100 “quality” manufacturing jobs to the Wiregrass region. The tax law was one of what Wise described as “two major steps needed” for […]
In the latest edition of his weekly column featured on Yellowhammer News, George Mason University professor Walter E. Williams hammered the “low academic quality” of grade school teachers, primarily those that earned degrees from universities’ colleges of education, which he deemed the “slums” of those institutions. To make his point, Williams cited low standardized […]
According to a report from Bloomberg Technology’s Anders Melin and Alex Webb, Apple CEO Tim Cook, a graduate of Auburn University and Baldwin County’s Robertsdale High School, will have a total payout for the year “to about $102 million.” That total included a $9.33 million bonus, a 74 percent increase from the year before, in […]
Late Wednesday evening, the U.S. Senate campaign for former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore announced it had filed a complaint on behalf of Moore calling on the certification of the December 12 special election to be delayed until a fraud investigation can take place. According to a press release, the complaint was […]
OPINION |reckon|: A new media endeavor branded with a folksy, down-home name that promotes regurgitated left-of-center tripe. Intended to make an Alabama readership think a whiny progressive ideology represents Deep South values. Back in October, AL(dot)com launched its social media-centric “space” for what Alabama Media Group vice president of content Michelle Holmes called […]