The Veterans Administration announced this month it would offer abortions in their facilities when “the life or health of the pregnant Veteran would be endangered if the pregnancy were carried to term, or when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.” The agency’s undersecretary for health said the VA would offer the procedures […]

During the 2022 summer meeting of the Alabama Republican Party state executive committee in August, the members passed a resolution that called for party registration and closed primary elections. Many Republicans believe too many Democrats in Alabama are voting in the GOP primaries and corrupting the results of those elections. Thursday, State Rep. Terri Collins […]

The fiscal year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act has yet to be scheduled for a vote in the upper chamber of Congress. The annual spending package is a crucial bill for Alabama’s contributions to national security, as the state boasts five military bases and a robust defense industry. Earlier this week, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville […]

On this day in 1963, an explosion tore through the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. Klansmen detonated 19 sticks of dynamite under the church and claimed four lives of those in attendance for the 11 a.m. service at the Black-majority congregation. The terrorist attack resulted in the death of four young girls: Addie Mae […]

The Alabama Republican Party (ALGOP) will soon deploy grassroots teams to assist the campaign of Georgia U.S. Senate nominee Herschel Walker (R). The Mighty Alabama Strike force, a campaign arm of ALGOP that routinely helps out-of-state Republican candidates in tight races, will embark on three separate door-knocking campaigns for the former Heisman Trophy Winner. Shelby […]

A lack of consensus among labor unions on an agreement with the largest U.S. freight railroads could spell trouble for an already-strained American supply chain. Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) District 19 rejected an agreement negotiated by the union’s leadership with the railroads, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. IAM […]

The Biden administration  held a star-studded celebration Tuesday at the White House to tout the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act. Democrats’ celebration of Congress passing President Joe Biden’s signature legislation comes as the national economy continues to remain in an inflationary state. On the same day of the White House’s celebration, updated inflation data […]

A few weeks ago, I wrote about a plan my House Republican colleagues and I have been working on so that we are fully prepared to hit the ground running when we take back the House this November. We believe it’s absolutely critical for us to lay this groundwork now so that we do not […]

This year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued guidance to retail pharmacies regarding elective abortion prescriptions. In its guidance, the department outlined denying filling a prescription that would induce an abortion violates the civil rights of women seeking to terminate a pregnancy. The guidance from HHS, according to a number of congressional […]

In a Tuesday floor speech, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) lamented the state of higher education in the United States. Alabama’s junior senator blasted the incorporation of partisan left-leaning instruction, attendance costs, President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plans, and the administration’s proposed reforms to Title IX. In his opening remarks, Tuberville touched on the […]

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, deaths from fentanyl overdoses are still rising exponentially. In the U.S., 56,516 overdose deaths were reported in 2020, a 56% increase over 2019. This week, State Rep. Matt Simpson (R-Daphne) announced that he’s putting forward legislation to strengthen penalties against fentanyl drug traffickers in the Yellowhammer State. […]

The U.S.-Mexico border is “secure” even as enforcement agents are contending with a mass influx of illegal immigrants entering the nation’s interior on a daily basis, according to Vice President Kamala Harris. Harris, who has been tapped by President Joe Biden to oversee matters relating to the border crisis, made the assertion during a recent […]

Federal and local officials are set to participate in a ground-breaking ceremony for Huntsville’s new state-of-the-art federal courthouse. The groundbreaking will take place 10:30 a.m., Sept. 19 at 660 Gallatin St. Highlighting the ceremony will be U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Tuscaloosa), who spearheaded the effort to ensure Alabama’s largest city boasted a new federal courthouse. […]

With supersonic air travel, it takes less than three days to travel around the world. Five hundred years ago, it took three years. When Ferdinand Magellan left Spain in 1519, he embarked on an adventure that was rife with danger and uncertainty. His flagship, if you can call it that, was a mere 75 feet […]

Last year, the Legislature passed a $1.3 billion plan to build two men’s prisons, $400 million of which will come from the American Rescue Plan Act, while the rest will come from the state’s General Fund and bond sales. Although the Alabama Corrections Institution Finance Authority was $200 million short in its bond sale this […]

The state could use a new method of execution on an inmate whose death sentence is scheduled for this month. Alan Eugene Miller, 57, is on death row at William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore for the 1999 shooting of three men during a workplace rampage in Shelby County. He is set to be […]

The  Legislature reauthorized the Alabama Jobs Act and the Growing Alabama Act in 2021, extending the economic incentive programs though July 31, 2023. Both programs include tax credits and other economic incentives to encourage more industries and high-paying jobs to move to the Yellowhammer State. In August, the Study Commission on Renewing Incentives met at […]

If a legislative effort supported by U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) is successful, the federal grant application process for local governments could become simplified. Sponsored by Alabama’s junior senator and eight of his fellow GOP colleagues, the Simplifying Grants Act aims to make the federal grant process easier for local governments in rural and smaller […]

For decades, losing political candidates in Alabama have been exiled to “Buck’s Pocket.” It is uncertain when or how the colloquialism began, but political insiders have used this terminology for at least 60 years. Alabama author, the late Winston Groom, wrote a colorful allegorical novel about Alabama politics in the 1960s and referred to a […]

According to the State Board of Education, Alabama student test scores improved for all grade levels in 2022, compared to 2021. In 2022, 47% of all tested students were proficient in English language arts, 37% were proficient in science, and 27% were proficient in math. That equates to a 2% increase of students who tested […]

State Rep. Matt Simpson (R-Daphne) is embarking on a legislative effort to strengthen penalties for traffickers of illicit fentanyl. Simpson, who served as freshman representative of the House GOP Caucus during the 2022 regular session, will hold a press conference next Monday regarding his legislation. Members of Mobile and Baldwin counties’ law enforcement community will […]

North Birmingham Community Development Rehabilitation Project was awarded $3 million in federal funds, elected officials announced Friday. The funding was secured by U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Birmingham) in the fiscal year 2022 government funding package. The federal investment will help redevelop the former North Birmingham Elementary School, according to Sewell’s office. In a statement, Sewell […]

After a deadly Labor Day weekend of violent crime in Birmingham, Mayor Randall Woodfin said on a Facebook post that gangs need to “chill and put the guns down.” This is just the latest example of a spike in violent crime that local officials are having a hard to getting a handle on in the […]

Public colleges and universities should be free and open to the exchange of ideas — places where our future teachers, lawyers, doctors, judges, community leaders, and voters can exercise their constitutionally protected freedom of speech. To that end, the Alabama Legislature passed the Campus Free Speech Act, which Gov. Kay Ivey signed into law. The […]