Huntsville is the No. 2 midsize metro nationwide that’s most prepared to work from home, according to a report by Filterbuy.com, and the city’s connectivity, workforce and job mix have a lot to do with that, says an associate professor of management at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). “Huntsville is a booming community and some […]

Surviving dangerous weather is the focus of Severe Weather Awareness Week in Alabama. Gov. Kay Ivey, the National Weather Service offices that serve Alabama, the Alabama Emergency Management Agency and other supporting organizations have declared the week of Feb. 16-21 as Severe Weather Awareness Week. John De Block, meteorologist for the National Weather Service office in Birmingham, says the goal […]

Many folks may be unaware of the advantages of doing business in Alabama’s rural counties, but corporate decision-makers from around the world are fully tuned in to the possibilities. Foreign direct investment has been a vital ingredient in Alabama’s economic growth in recent years – and that is true for rural parts of the state […]

MONTGOMERY — Alabama’s coronavirus metrics continued to head in the right direction over the last week, with hospitalizations continuing a sharp decrease. According to BamaTracker, a site that collects government data on the virus, 951 Alabamians were in the hospital with COVID-19 on Friday. That is down from 1,258 a week ago and constitutes a […]

The U.S. Department of Justice announced that Hugo Hernandez-Velazquez is being arraigned via videoconference on Friday afternoon in New York City on a 12-count indictment. Also known as “Norberto Hernandez Velasquez” and “La Gallina,” Hernandez-Velazquez, along with his siblings Arcelia (also known as “La Gordis”) and Ernesto (also known as “Chapas”), are charged with racketeering and […]

MOBILE — U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) on Friday visited Alabama’s Port City, highlighted by a tour of Austal USA’s world-class shipbuilding operation. “They gave us a good briefing,” the freshman senator advised, speaking to members of the media assembled directly across the Mobile harbor ship channel from Austal, with its facilities looming in the […]

NASA’s Perseverance Rover on Thursday completed the most difficult landing ever attempted on Mars, quickly sending back images from the Red Planet’s Jezero Crater. The robotic spacecraft can now embark on the meat of its “Mars 2020” mission, which is to find evidence of ancient life on the planet. This is the first ever American […]

Thursday, Club for Growth Foundation unveiled two scorecards critical of the Alabama Legislature in two categories — economic policy and attendance. Both scorecards gave lawmakers relatively low scores, an average economic score of 21% in the Senate and 15% in the House based on votes on legislation chosen by the Club for Growth, and lackluster […]

State Sen. Tim Melson (R-Florence) is taking another shot at medical cannabis this legislative session. Previously, his efforts had come up short, passing in the Senate but not the House. His SB46 received a favorable report from the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this month and is expected to get another shot at a floor vote […]

The Montgomery TechLab (MGM TechLab) this week launched its inaugural tech accelerator program; ten companies from around the country are participating in the 12-week program, which is being conducted virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Companies in the program will develop digital services solutions with applications in the defense, health care and energy industries. During […]

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall on Thursday joined a coalition of 17 other attorneys general in urging President Joe Biden and his administration to reverse their last-minute cancellation of Operation Talon, a nationwide ICE program focused on removing convicted sex offenders who are illegally present in the United States. In a letter to Biden, Homeland […]

University of Alabama director of Athletics Greg Byrne on Thursday announced that head men’s basketball Nate Oats and the university have agreed to a significant raise and contract extension. The new agreement will extend his current contract by three seasons to six total years, keeping him in charge of the rising Crimson Tide basketball program […]

San Francisco resident and famed Hollywood actor Danny Glover will be in Alabama on Monday to support the unionization drive at Amazon’s Bessemer facility. Glover will be the guest of the New York City-based Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), which would be the entity workers join if the ongoing unionization vote passes. In […]

Governor Kay Ivey announced Thursday afternoon that the State of Alabama is offering $5,000 for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person(s) who killed an Alabama toddler. A Birmingham-based organization is offering an additional $5,000 for the same type of information Major Turner, age 2, lived on John Bryan Road in […]

U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) on Thursday had a busy day in the Wiregrass, making several stops directly related to his new committee assignments. This included a tour of Fort Rucker, the U.S. Army base mostly located in Dale County. Tuberville was recently assigned to the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC); Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry […]

Alabama cities Huntsville and Daphne were listed this week among the best performing cities of their size by the Milken Institute, an independent think tank. The Milken Institute’s index of cities factored in job growth, wage growth, access to broadband, housing affordability and the degree to which a city’s economy is driven by the technology […]

On Thursday, Club for Growth released its annual metrics grading the Alabama Legislature on economic policy and attendance with its Economic and Missed Vote Scorecards. Scores were generally low on average for economic policy but topping the charts on the economic scorecard were State Sen. Shay Shelnutt (R-Trussville) in the upper chamber and State Rep. […]

MONTGOMERY — Lynda Blanchard, the businesswoman who was appointed by President Donald Trump to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Slovenia, officially announced her candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated following the 2022 election by Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL). A Montgomery native and first-time candidate, Blanchard made her announcement in a video released […]

U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) came out in favor this week of federal legislation that would punish states which implement COVID-19 lockdown orders. Moore signed on as an original cosponsor of U.S. Rep. Bob Good’s (R-VA) The Right to Earn a Living Act, which would make state and local governments that institute lockdowns on small […]

Conservative talker and radio pioneer Rush Limbaugh died Wednesday after losing his battle with Stage IV lung cancer at age 70, according to a statement from his wife Kathryn read on Limbaugh’s Wednesday broadcast. Over the past three decades, Limbaugh’s program became the most listened-to radio show in the country. It aired on over 600 […]

Last week, through an act of the legislature, Alabama significantly changed its tax code with two objectives — not to tax federal benefits stemming from the CARES Act intended to provide relief from the COVID-19 economic downturn and make Alabama more competitive with its neighbors in the spirit economic development. Leading the way on the […]

The State of Alabama on Wednesday filed a motion seeking to dismiss a lawsuit by the Department of Justice that alleges the conditions in Alabama’s prisons for men violate the U.S. Constitution’s protections against cruel and unusual punishment. Alabama argued the conditions mentioned in the DOJ’s lawsuit, filed in December of 2020, do not meet […]

Sweet Grown Alabama, a nonprofit group dedicated to promoting products grown and made in Alabama, has received a grant to track the number of local products purchased by grocery stores in the state. Partners in data harvesting operation include Greer’s Markets in South Alabama with 17 Alabama stores; Piggly Wiggly Birmingham Group with 13 stores; […]

Following a 203-day, 293-million-mile journey, the Perseverance rover on Thursday will attempt a historically-difficult landing in Mars’ Jezero Crater. A robotic spacecraft, Perseverance will perform the intense entry, descent and landing that begins by hitting the top of the Martian atmosphere at 12,100 mph. Just seven minutes later, the rover should put its six wheels […]