MONTGOMERY — A primary will be held Tuesday in the special election race for Alabama House District 74, which became vacant upon the tragic passing of beloved State Rep. Dimitri Polizos (R-Montgomery) in March. There is only one Democrat on the ballot. Michael Fritz, Tobias Grant, Jesse Caleb Heifner, Jay King, Charlotte Meadows and Daniel Sparkman are running for the […]

7. Biden is slipping in Iowa  Former Vice President Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign is definitely going better than his other campaigns for the office. He is in double digits and leading, but he continues to be dogged by his phoniness, which is hurting his poll numbers. With the damage from his abortion waffling still […]

Radio talk show host Dale Jackson and Dr. Waymon Burke take you through this week’s biggest political stories, including: — Can tariffs work? — What is Doug Jones saying? — Will the border crisis be solved?

7. Parole and pardons On Thursday, Governor Kay Ivey signed into law a bill that will greatly reform the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles, which has been called “badly broken” by Attorney General Steve Marshall. The new law will give the governor more direct oversight of the board, will require that at least one […]

7. Is Joe Biden blowing it? 2020 Democratic presidential frontrunner and former Vice President Joe Biden is getting slammed daily and his polling is suffering as a result. The latest hit is related to a weeks-old comment he made that is a change to his position on the Hyde Amendment, which came to light after […]

7. Endorsements made in Alabama’s 2020 U.S. Senate race  The “Senate Conservatives Fund” based in Washington, D.C. has a history of backing conservative outsiders and has officially endorsed State Representative Arnold Mooney (R-Indiana Springs) for the upcoming 2020 U.S. Senate race. Meanwhile, Opelika Mayor Gary Fuller has endorsed Congressman Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope). These early endorsements […]

7. Alabama native refuses to be in the same country as Trump The founder of Wikipedia and Alabama native Jimmy Wales apparently isn’t the biggest fan of President Donald Trump, and tweeted, “I am going to the airport. Leaving the UK today. I will be back when he leaves.” Wales finally acknowledged the trip has […]

7. No preconditions for Iran On Sunday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the Trump administration is willing to talk to Iran with no preconditions, however, sanctions already placed on Iran will stay in effect. Tensions between Iran and the United States have been escalating dramatically. Trump has previously stated that war between the […]

When Vice President Mike Pence announced plans to launch a lunar mission by 2024, it was as if someone had placed the nation’s renewed interest in human spaceflight inside of an accelerator. Suddenly there was a timeline. A palpable air of urgency arose. Some balked at the enormity of the task ahead. Without question returning […]

Radio talk show host Dale Jackson and Dr. Waymon Burke take you through this week’s biggest political stories, including: — Did FBI special counsel Mueller say anything new in his statement to the media? — Will Alabama’s abortion ban really hurt the state economically? — Who is clamoring for a Roy Moore candidacy?

“Rumors and Rumblings” is a regular feature on Yellowhammer News. It is a compilation of the bits and pieces of information that we glean from conversations throughout the week. Enjoy.

7. Pill mill “drug dealer” gets 10 years On Wednesday, a Montgomery nurse practitioner was sentenced to 10 years in prison by a federal judge for her involvement in the pill mill issue. She is one of more than a dozen charged in the case. She was found guilty of unlawfully distributing fentanyl, oxycodone and […]

7. Not so “Sweet Home Alabama?” Hugh Culverhouse, Jr. has called for a boycott of the University of Alabama due to the new abortion law and is calling on other donors, out-of-state students, and businesses to do the same. Culverhouse and the university were already involved in a dispute over the money he’s donated to […]

7. A dollar goes far in Alabama New data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis shows that the value of one dollar in Alabama ranks second highest in the United States, with one dollar being worth $1.15. Mississippi has the highest value for one dollar in the country at $1.16, while Hawaii has the lowest […]

7. Maybe Trump wants to be a rocketman During President Donald Trump’s visit with the prime minister of Japan, the president dismissed new missile tests by North Korea and echoed North Korea’s insults towards the Democratic Party’s frontrunner, former Vice President Joe Biden, who declared Kim Jong-un has a low IQ. While in Japan, President […]

Radio talk show host Dale Jackson and commercial real estate agent James Lomax take you through this week’s biggest political stories, including: — Is the lottery really dead? — Is the abortion bill killing Alabama’s business recruitment opportunities? — Should Alabama Public Television air a gay wedding on a children’s cartoon?

“Rumors and Rumblings” is a regular feature on Yellowhammer News. It is a compilation of the bits and pieces of information that we glean from conversations throughout the week. Enjoy.

7. Florida wants to be Alabama  GOP Florida State Representative Mike Hill has plans to introduce an abortion ban bill modeled after the Alabama ban, saying God told him to offer the bill. The bill will include no exceptions for rape or incest like the Alabama bill, but it will also not include exceptions for […]

7. Creepy porn inmate Michael Avenatti, who became famous for supporting porn star Stormy Daniels, is now looking at the potential of going to jail for 404 years for ripping her off. The federal prosecutors in New York allege that Avenatti stole around $300,000 from Daniels’ book deal and used that money for personal and […]

7. Pelosi is trying to break Democrats’ impeachment fever As Democrat leaders try to tamp down impeachment fever, Representative Steve Cohen (D-TN) said that former President Bill Clinton was impeached over sex and President Donald Trump is “raping the country.” A senior House Democrat also told Fox News that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) won’t […]

There is a public relations crisis gripping Alabama and it must be addressed by the Alabama legislature. The risk is so real that tourism could plummet, businesses could flee the state and educated young people could choose to move out of their home state for a more welcoming state. A gay rat is marrying a […]

7. Alabama Public Television did not and will not air PBS’s same-sex marriage episode of “Arthur” — The episode aired nationwide on May 13, but instead, APT aired a re-run of the show “Arthur,” a show meant for children. The director of programming for APT, Mike Mackenzie, said that when they were notified about the […]

MONTGOMERY — The 2019 regular session of the Alabama legislature is expected to wrap up next week, and there are still a lot of important issues to be decided. Legislators have already made history by passing the Rebuild Alabama Act in a special session and have used the regular session thus far to pass bills […]

7. Another bombshell report by the New York Times falls apart when you actually read it — A few weeks ago, President Donald Trump’s tax returns were huge news as an innuendo-laden exposé in the “paper of record” told the story of financial ruin that Trump told two decades ago himself. Now, the huge story […]