Governor Kay Ivey unveiled the gas tax plan today, and it is a little more complicated than we thought. The plan, known as Rebuild Alabama Infrastructure Plan, proposes a 10-cent increase on gas tax that is phased in over the next three years. Excerpt from the Ivey news release, as follows:

7. Journalists in Alabama can’t understand why no one trusts them; They blame Yellowhammer News, but that just proves that they don’t get it — The Columbia Journalism Review sent a reporter to the state of Alabama to find out how “something called ‘Yellowhammer News'” is covering the state that the majority of the media […]

Yellowhammer News was founded on the need for a news outlet to reflect the state of Alabama, its people and their values. With great pleasure, we recently read an article by a San Francisco freelance writer chronicling Yellowhammer’s roots and ascent to become the go-to source for news and analysis in this state.

7. Alabama race hoaxer is now unemployed and living with his agent — Alabama’s own Bruce Maxwell, formerly with the Oakland A’s, finds himself without an MLB team after a low batting average, kneeling during the national anthem, racial restaurant hoax incident in Huntsville and pulling a gun on a delivery driver derailed his career. Bleacher […]

7. A new set of kneelers has emerged, and this group doesn’t understand why people don’t like their protest either — As irrelevant clowns protested on their campus, Ole Miss basketball players kneeled in protest during the national anthem, even though those groups don’t care and most Americans don’t like that form of protest. Although the […]

Radio talk show host Dale Jackson and Dr. Waymon Burke take you through this week’s biggest political stories, including: — Can U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) beat Congressman Bradley Byrne (R-Mobile)? — Is there a racial component at play in the drama with the Alabama Democratic Party? — What will the media and their Democrats do […]

Alabama’s law on legal notices and public notification is not that different than the laws of other states that require state and local government must advertise in local print newspapers for matters of the public interest. This means government entities must take tax dollars and hand them over to media companies in exchange for advertising that […]

7. The White House isn’t waiting for lawsuits to be resolved, dares courts to stop Trump — Because a portion of the money for new wall construction is tied up in potential court cases, President Donald Trump will not spend any of the funds that are hung up on his national emergency declaration yet. While […]

7. Hate crime hoaxer has been arrested and charged with “filing a false police report“ — Reports out of Chicago don’t look good for “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett as a grand jury has returned a felony indictment for what the Cook County district attorney believes was a fabricated hate crime to garner publicity. This is […]

Almost every politician in Alabama wanted to get in on condemning, and in some cases calling for the resignation of the editor, publisher and owner of a rag out of Linden, Alabama, with roughly 3,000 subscribers. The governor, both United States senators, multiple congressmen and congresswomen, the State Senate pro tem, the lieutenant governor and surely countless […]

7. The Democratic Party has a new front-runner — he’s a 77-year-old white male socialist — Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is in the primary to be the next Democratic presidential nominee. He polls better than any other candidate currently in the race. The only suspected candidate that out-polls him is former VP Joe Biden. Sanders is […]

7. Noted liar and “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett will not talk to police now — After getting the liberal media and celebrities to destroy their credibility further, Smollett has made it clear he will not be coming clean to the police anytime soon. His PR team released a statement announcing he wouldn’t meet with police. […]

7. A major Democrat talking point on tax refunds is obliterated by the Washington Post — Presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) received “four Pinocchios” from fact-checkers at the post for repeating a Democratic talking point about how lower refunds mean taxes have gone up. The Post’s Glenn Kessler pointed out how this […]

Radio talk show host Dale Jackson and Dr. Waymon Burke take you through this week’s biggest political stories, including: — Can President Donald Trump go it alone on the border? — Can Governor Kay Ivey pull off her prison plan? — Should Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) force a vote on the Green New […]

Who won the 2018 general election in Alabama? You might think with all the talk of $900 prison spending bills, gas taxes, Medicaid expansion and the lottery that Democrats won in a massive landslide and were preparing to implement their agenda. But that is not what happened — Republicans actually picked up seats. The state […]

7. Brilliant politicians in New York cost themselves 25,000 jobs and untold billions of dollars; Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) cheers — Amazon will not be bringing their second headquarters to New York after outrage over the three billion dollars in economic incentives cause the economically illiterate in the city to believe the city was losing money […]

7. Birmingham’s mayor wants to name a municipal facility after a convicted felon who used his office to enrich himself — Mayor Randall Woodfin wants to honor the late Larry Langford by naming the CrossPlex after the corrupt politicians because “it’s fitting for all the work he did.” The pious government watchdog at AL.com who […]

7. Oakland Raiders (Alazona Raiders?) to Birmingham seems unlikely  — The city of Birmingham could be the home of the Oakland Raiders, at least part-time for one year, if a deal with the team and the city of Tucson, Arizona, comes to fruition. The Raiders’ lease with the Oakland Coliseum is expired and they don’t start […]

We have all heard about the completely unbelievable story about “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett. He was allegedly assaulted at 2 a.m. by two guys who attacked him over his homosexuality and his race in Chicago. They apparently dumped a liquid on him and placed a noose around his neck in subzero temperatures. As the targeted assault […]

7. In the era of the questionable hate crime and unprovable anonymous insult, a Huntsville restaurant wants in on the act — Charrito’s Bar & Grill in Huntsville has taken to Facebook to post an alleged customer receipt that had the words “BROWN C****” and “TRUMP WILL F*** YOU.” For some reason, they chose not to mention […]

The phrase “Damn, Democrats got it good” is a phrase I have used on my radio show for years. I don’t think I made it up, but I don’t know where I heard it or some variation of the phrase. If there was a better way to summarize the way America’s mainstream media treats Republicans […]

7. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-WA) officially announces her run for the presidency and exchanges barbs with President Donald Trump — Warren’s announcement came days after her hometown paper suggested she shouldn’t run. Trump tweeted a reference to the Trail of Tears, which plays on Warren’s decades of cultural appropriation. Not to be outdone, Warren then […]

Radio talk show host Dale Jackson and Dr. Waymon Burke take you through this week’s biggest political stories, including: — Did President Donald Trump set an achievable agenda with his State of the Union address? — Can Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) help seal a border security deal that keeps the government open? — Will the […]

While Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s (D) blackface problem is fueling the calls for his resignation, most of the mainstream media outlets only focused on his outrageous comments about abortion through the lens of conservatives’ reactions to it. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall appeared on WVNN’s “The Dale Jackson Show” Friday and was asked if what […]