A pre-election Daily Beast article featuring interviews with Briarwood Presbyterian Church members in Birmingham is so simplistic and stereotype-ridden it isn’t worth reading, wrote media expert and veteran journalist Terry Mattingly on his GetReligion site this week.     The story, written by D.C.-based reporter Andrew Desiderio ran with this near-comical double-decker headline: Alabama Evangelicals Find […]

Voters in the Huntsville-area spoke with Yellowhammer News about how they voted, how they feel about the election and what they think about Roy Moore.  WATCH:     Video Credit: Jacob Woods

Even in an age when security cameras catch us and DNA samples condemn us, the Weinstein – Franken – Conyers – Lauer – (etc. and so on) roll out of #pervnado allegations, denials, half-truths and firings should remind us we’re a society still dependent upon an old-fashioned concept: our word.  We depend upon accusers to tell […]

The newest Emerson College poll shows Democrat Doug Jones pulling within just three percentage points of Republican Roy Moore in the Senate seat race.  The poll included write-in candidate Lee Busby who received 5 percent of the vote. Moore led the three with 49 percent support and Jones trailed close behind with 46 percent. Busby’s name […]

American millennials are coming of age and coming into something rapper Coolio called “dollar dollar bill, y’all,” in a song released the year many millennials were born. According to the Bureau of Labor, last year: — Millennial-headed households averaged $65,373 in income (vs $74,664 for total households). — Millennial-headed households spent an average of $48,576 (vs. $57,311 […]

I’m an Auburn fan. My husband and kids are Alabama fans. I’ve taken my share of defeats during our 13-year marriage and I’ve witnessed some glorious wins like Saturday’s. But I’d rather lose to Alabama than put up with a type of tomfoolery that runs rampant in our state and that I refuse to put […]