An LGBTQ group in Mobile is set to host Drag Queen Story Hour in two weeks, where children will have stories read to them by a local drag queen before they finish with a craft making session. The event, put on by Rainbow Mobile, has caused a significant amount of controversy to bubble up in […]

Several Mobilians went before their city council on Tuesday to express their disapproval of an event set to take place at the Mobile Public Library on Saturday, September 8, where a local drag queen will read to a group of children. “The reason I’m here today is because of a matter that’s very heavy on […]

A candidate for the Alabama House of Representatives will be on ballots in November, after a lawsuit challenging his candidacy was struck down on Wednesday. Etowah County Circuit Judge William H. Rhea dismissed a lawsuit filed against Craig Lipscomb – the Republican nominee for Alabama House District 30 – as well as the Alabama GOP, […]

A charismatic Alabama pastor’s analysis of what is currently plaguing American society, and especially President Trump, has gone viral. Citing from 2 Kings 9:22, Pastor John Kilpatrick of Daphne’s Church of His Presence prophesied that “witchcraft is trying to take this country over.” “Here’s what the Holy Spirit said to me last night and here’s […]

Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson last week became the fourth Alabama mayor to publicly support a U.S. Senate bill that would allow money market funds to elect to operate using a different method of valuation of its shares than is currently required by the Securities and Exchange Commission. On August 14, Stimpson sent a letter to […]

The Yellowhammer State and the Palmetto State share many things: heat, southern culture, a love for football. A more unfortunate commonality between the two, and one receiving lots of attention in both states, is that each has an unfinished nuclear power plant just sitting there, continually making news but not power. Alabama’s Bellefonte Nuclear Generating […]

There is one particular word that Dr. John Christy turns to frequently for describing climate science: murky. It’s a point of view foundational to his own research, and a message underpinning each of his twenty appearances before various congressional committees. “It’s encouraging because they wouldn’t invite you back unless your message was compelling and not […]

The Alabama Department of Public Health issued a press release on Monday to clarify that it is merely investigating potential cases of the Zika and West Nile viruses in the state, following an incorrect media report stating that a case of the Zika virus has been confirmed in Pelham. WBRC reported on Monday that the Shelby […]

Montgomery-headquartered Raycom Media has released a new documentary focused on those who have suffered from opioid abuse, as well as the doctors who contributed to that suffering by overprescribing pain medication. “Our national investigative unit worked tirelessly to expose the abuses in the system, and we want to do our part to inform our local consumers,” […]

The Alabama Department of Revenue last month published an analysis of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act’s (TCJA) effects on the state’s tax law, and its conclusions could cause some companies to pay more in taxes. Though the federal corporate income tax rate has been reduced, the tax bill offsets that revenue loss with other […]

The office of Secretary of State published on Monday four plain language summaries of each statewide constitutional amendment to be presented before voters in November. The summaries were developed by the state’s Fair Ballot Commission, an agency composed of top state officials and private citizen-appointees, which is authorized by state law “to provide to the […]

A new analysis by the personal finance publication WalletHub ranks Alabama’s health care system as the nation’s sixth worst. To make their determinations, researchers examined three categories: cost, access and outcomes, looking at things like average monthly insurance premium, share of high out-of-pocket medical spending, hospital beds per capita, average emergency-room wait time, infant mortality […]

Following the May passage of a bill rolling back parts of the Obama-era Dodd-Frank banking regulations, Congress has a chance to install more bipartisan financial reforms, and Alabama will have a say. The Republican-sponsored Consumer Financial Choice and Capital Markets Protection Act of 2017 currently awaits consideration by the Senate Banking Committee, on which both […]

A provision in the popular Republican tax bill has non-profits, particularly churches, concerned that they might have to begin filing income tax returns for the first time. The provision imposes an unrelated business tax when an organization pays for the use of qualified transportation fringe benefits, parking facilities used in connection with qualified parking, and […]

Democrat candidate for governor Walt Maddox on Thursday published an outline of his goals for addressing public safety. The plan discusses problems suffered by Alabama’s State Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA), particularly its shortage of state troopers and the resulting reliance upon city and county law enforcement to fulfill various enforcement duties. Fewer than 300 troopers […]

Staff members from both the Alabama Republican Party and the Alabama Democratic Party reported to the office of Secretary of State on Wednesday to certify and file the names of their candidates nominated in either the June 5 primary or the July 17 runoff. State law directs state party executive committees to certify with the […]

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell praised Sen. Richard Shelby on Wednesday for his extraordinary leadership of the Senate Appropriations Committee. “As he took the reins of the Appropriations Committee, he made it clear that, working with Senator Leahy, regular order would be the name of the game,” Leader McConnell said on the Senate floor. Under Shelby’s […]

Alabama’s public schools have been ranked 44th best in the country by the personal finance website WalletHub, which is slightly lower than two other recent rankings by U.S. News and World Report and Education Week. Researchers at WalletHub examined various criteria across two categories – quality and safety – to make their determinations. Those criteria […]

Republicans are up 14 points against Democrats in races for statewide office in Alabama, according to a new poll by Cygnal, a Montgomery-based research firm. Republicans currently lead Democrats 55 percent to 41 percent on the generic ballot, something we should expect according to Brett Cowden, Cygnal’s VP of Client Strategy. “It should be no […]

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on Monday the creation of a religious liberty task force within the Department of Justice meant to aid in the implementation of a memo he signed last October guiding how the department litigates such issues. “The Constitution’s protections don’t end at the parish parking lot, nor can our freedoms be […]

Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) is poised to become head of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, but first he may have to overcome a plan by Texas state legislators to intervene. If custom is followed, Aderholt will become chairman based on his seniority. According to custom of seniority, the majority party committee member with the most […]

The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed the final version of Fiscal Year 2019’s National Defense Authorization Bill (NDAA), a $639 billion base defense budget. The bill authorizes $18 billion for Army equipment replacement, $41 billion for aircraft, $36 billion for naval fleet improvements, $23 billion for military facilities and infrastructure, and a 2.6% […]

A new series of rankings shows that Gov. Kay Ivey is the country’s third-most popular governor, at 67 percent approval. According to Morning Consult, only three percentage points separate Ivey from being number one. The “most popular” title is currently held by Charlie Baker, the Republican governor of Massachusetts. Republican Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland […]

Following completion of its Centaur dual engine system, the rocket set to send American astronauts back to the International Space Station is in its final assembly stage at United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) factory in Decatur, Alabama. ULA’s Atlas V rocket will power Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft in the first astronaut mission launched from American soil […]