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State Representative Andrew Sorrell (R-Muscle Shoals) participated in the roll-call vote where he cast all of Alabama’s 50 delegates for Trump

Brooks sees 2020 as a battle over law and order

Brooks believes this will be an election about substantive public policy issues and that starts with defining where each side stands on public safety and normalcy.

President Donald Trump has announced the emergency authorization of a plasma treatment for coronavirus patients, saying the treatment is “a breakthrough,”State Representative Chris England (D-Tuscaloosa) discussed U.S. Senator Doug Jones and former Vice President Joe Biden’s chances in the General Election in Alabama

Jackson closes the show with a “parting shot” aimed at those who felt they needed to defend Goodyear from the accurate criticism President Donald Trump offered about a leaked slide forbidding certain political sloganeering.

Last night at the Democratic National Convention, former Vice President Joe Biden formally accepted the Democratic nomination in the 2020 Presidential Election

Jones said that he doesn’t think the state “is as deep-red as everybody says,” using the special election in 2017 when Jones was elected to support that claim.

So the President of the United States has now forced an American company to show their support for the police and make it clear that there is not a speech code in their workplace that places one form of political expression over another.

7. SEC football game attendance requirements announced The Southeastern Conference has announced the guidelines that will be enforced for anyone planning to attend college football games in the fall. Local and state guidelines will determine capacity, so in Alabama, the outdoor venues have to “limit occupancy as required to comply with the social distance requirements.” […]

The University of Alabama has released updated numbers from the students that have been tested for the coronavirus, showing 25,948 students have been tested and 237 were positive, meaning that only 0.91 percent of tests were positive

You can vote now, you can vote early, you do not have to wait until the last minute, you can even do like you have done your entire life and vote in person.

Social media posts, journalist, football players and even Alabama's AD and head coach Nick Saban's daughter have taken to social media to lament the lack of social distancing

Jackson closes the show with a “parting shot” aimed at those who are trying their best to castformer Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) as moderates.

The Big Ten and the Pac-12 are doing everything they can to kill the SEC’s season. They have no other choice. Their decision to cancel their own college football seasons has put themselves in impossible positions. Much talk has centered around the financial losses they face. Then there is the competitive fallout. Not playing this […]

Biden has come out in favor of a national mask mandate to fight the coronavirus, despite 34 states already having a mandate

The fact that we are in day 3 of sub-1,000 new coronavirus cases is great. Whether it is the mask ordinance or not, who cares, the numbers are coming down and that is great.

While Alabama's mask mandate may or may not be responsible for the slowing numbers but states like Illinois are so concerned about the lack of masks they are now actively fining businesses and have made assaulting a retail employee over masks is a felony.

As two college football conferences muddled their way through season cancellations this week, loud cries rang out for a centralized leader of the sport. The poor decision-making in those conferences could have been prevented by a single, national voice coordinating the process, they say. Without a doubt, the players, coaches and universities in the Big […]

7. Baldwin County Schools react to petitions calling for punishment At Daphne High School, a group of cheerleaders took a picture together with a T-shirt that said “I Love Redneck Boys” on July 4, and a fellow student started a petition that gained 10,000 signatures calling for the school to take disciplinary action. Baldwin County […]

The commission views this as a non-starter, Strong believes attempting to “negotiate” breaking the law is a violation of his oath of office, instead, he “filed an application of waiver with the committee based on a law that was written in 2017.”

Trump said, “if Democrats continue to hold this critical relief hostage I will act under my authority as president to get Americans the relief they need."

Jackson closes the show with a “parting shot” directed at all the education officials who want to cancel classes without thinking about the long-term ramifications of that decision and how people will respond politically to this in the future.

UA has decided to spend $1.2 million to rent out 252 apartment beds so that they will have beds free on campus in the event that students test positive and need to be isolated

99.6 percent of respondents in Alabama said they’re concerned about changes in K-12 schools, which is similar to the rest of the country

Free healthcare, free childcare, free college education and it never stops. Once it starts, it can not stop.Stopping any of this is the equivalent of kicking a baby in the face and taking its food.