By State Rep. Will Ainsworth (R – Guntersville) The Alabama Capitol Building and State House are currently suffering an epidemic of corruption, and rather than continuing to address the problem only after wrongdoing occurs, I believe it is time we implement a strong dose of preventative medicine. That is why I have filed strict, no-nonsense […]

I am deeply troubled by the announcement that Gov. Robert Bentley and a handful of other moderate Republican officeholders across the state will not vote for Donald Trump when they cast presidential ballots next Tuesday. In Alabama, we do not tolerate fair-weather football fans who stand with their team of choice when victory is assured, […]

As a conservative Christian, an elected official, and a registered voter, I remain angry that a Star Chamber of biased and unaccountable judges have effectively removed Chief Justice Roy Moore from office for a second time. Providing guidance and information to judges throughout the court system was among Moore’s duties as chief justice, and as […]

Alabama, in many ways, has had an unfortunate and unlucky history in electing its chief executives. Out of the last five men who were elected to our state’s highest office, two were convicted of serious felonies, one of which currently resides inside a federal prison cell; two proposed massive tax increases after strongly opposing them […]

Alabama’s General Fund budget, which appropriates taxpayer dollars to non-education state agencies like Medicaid, the Department of Corrections, Public Safety, and others, faces an economic crisis not seen since the darkest days of the Great Depression. With historically stagnant revenues, rising Medicaid costs related to ObamaCare, a prison system on the precipice of federal takeover, […]