So…. Who comes next? Without prejudging the fall-out from the sex-related allegations against Senate candidate Roy Moore, it still is obvious that a chance exists he may withdraw from the race. While state law seems clear that it’s too late to replace Moore on the ballot, some highly informed sources say precedent exists to […]

  If ever there is legitimacy to playing a “blame game,” it exists right now with regard to the mess Alabama Republicans face in a special U.S. Senate election that should not be occurring in the first place. In order of approximate chronology rather than of seriousness, here are all the places the blame lies […]

  U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne of Baldwin County achieved his latest in a string of legislative victories Tuesday afternoon as the House passed a pro-jobs, pro-small-business bill he authored. The Save Local Business Act, which passed 242-181, would roll back an Obama-era regulation issued by the National Labor Relations Board. Byrne had described the regulation […]

    Unless and until shown otherwise with actual facts and details, this column will make the case that much of Alabama government is underfunded. Even to type that sentence above is to subject myself to an extreme fingernails-across-chalkboard sensation, because I’m a hardline fiscal conservative and, personally, a proud skinflint in many situations. Still, […]

    Former Alabama Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb, running as a Democrat for governor next year, has a new twist on the common practice of major candidates publishing a book just as their campaigns start. Today, New South Books announced the publication of There Must Be a Witness, a book about “child advocacy” co-written […]

    On one of the few issues on which Attorney General Jeff Sessions is dead wrong, his home state of Alabama allows and even encourages the wrong to reach epic proportions. The issue is “civil asset forfeiture,” the practice in which law-enforcement agencies seize property of those accused of a crime – and then, […]

  Alabama’s governing systems are a collective mess. Many of my columns here at Yellowhammer will detail that mess – or those messes – and unflinchingly will advocate reforms, no matter whose toes get stomped or whose power bases get challenged. I write as a lifelong, committed Madisonian conservative. Put the stress on “Madisonian,” which […]

Guest Opinion by Quin Hillyer Attorney General Jeff Sessions acquitted himself quite well in testimony Tuesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee. The focus on Sessions, in relation to the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, always has been absurd. He has told no lies; he has done nothing wrong; he has no involvement […]