Tuesday, Limestone County commissioner Jason Black announced his candidacy to seek the Republican nomination for the Alabama House of Representatives, District 2. The seat Black is seeking is currently occupied by State Rep. Lynn Greer (R-Rogersville), who has opted to forgo reelection. Black was first elected to the Limestone County Commission in 2014 and was […]

WETUMPKA — Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Katie Britt suggests a degree of malfeasance when it comes to the application of President Joe Biden’s so-called vaccine mandate. Tuesday night, Britt spoke to the Elmore County Republican Party. During the question-and-answer portion of her presentation, the former Business Council of Alabama head fielded a question about the […]

Candidates seeking election to Alabama’s open U.S. Senate and fifth congressional district seats have filed their year-end Federal Election Commission (FEC) reports. The fourth quarter’s fundraising numbers are posted as candidates will later this month enter the three-month stretch to the primary election on May 24, 2022. U.S. Senate Former Business Council of Alabama CEO […]

Tuesday, former two-term State Sen. Bill Holtzclaw announced his candidacy to seek the Republican nomination for the Alabama Senate, District 2. Holtzclaw was first elected to the Senate in 2010, where he served the North Alabama district until he opted to forgo reelection in 2018. The launch of his candidacy sets the stage for a […]

Gun-control advocates keep making the same predictions of doom and bloodshed from law-abiding citizens having guns for protection. They warn us of pending disaster if Alabama becomes the 22nd state to adopt so-called constitutional carry rules that would allow law-abiding adults who legally own a handgun to conceal-carry it without a permit. Thirty-four states already […]

State Rep. Wes Allen (R-Troy), candidate for Alabama Secretary of State, on Monday announced his intentions to withdraw the state’s membership from the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), which he alleged was partially funded by progressive financier George Soros. Allen vowed to pull Alabama’s membership from ERIC on his first day in office due to […]

Huntsville businesswoman and former Trump-era White House staff member Angela McClure on Monday announced that she had qualified her candidacy to seek the Republican nomination for the Alabama House of Representatives, District 20. Raised in Montgomery, McClure served as a page for former Gov. Fob James. She has been a Huntsville resident for 25 years. […]

As mandated by law under the Ethics in Government Act, U.S. Senate candidates are required to submit personal financial disclosures to a public database which show certain income sources, assets, liabilities and other related information. Mike Durant, Republican candidate for Alabama’s open U.S. Senate seat, on Monday filed his financial disclosure with the U.S. Senate […]

Monday, the Alabama Republican Party (ALGOP) announced that it had filed a motion with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the state’s arguments concerning the legal battle over congressional redistricting. Attorney General Steve Marshall last week filed an emergency petition asking the high court to halt the U.S. District Court for the Northern District […]

7. New variant being found in more states The recently discovered coronavirus variant that’s considered a subvariant of Omicron has now been found in about half of the United States. The variant, BA.2, has only been diagnosed in 127 cases, according to recent reports from last week. In some countries, such as Denmark, BA.2 did […]

Alabama families are set to pay an extra $87.7 million in state income taxes due to the federal government’s expansion of tax credits included in COVID-19 pandemic relief. Pandemic relief legislation passed last year by Congress expanded the dependent care, earned income and child tax credits. Income from work must have been earned by the […]

The Eagle Forum on Monday announced its political action committee’s endorsement of U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks’ (R-Huntsville) bid for the U.S. Senate. Over the course of nearly five decades, Eagle Forum has acted as a grassroots mobilization network to promote a number of conservative causes across the nation. Eagle Forum president Colleen Holcomb in a […]

The long-awaited opportunity to expand educational options for parents who seek to enhance their children’s academic experience is poised to be debated among Alabama lawmakers during the 2022 regular legislative session. State Sen. Del Marsh (R-Anniston) on Tuesday plans to officially introduce the “Parent’s Choice Act,” which would create a program to expand alternative educational […]

State Rep. Wes Allen (R-Troy), a candidate for Alabama Secretary of State, on Monday vowed to pull the state’s membership from a George Soros-connected voter registration organization. Soros, a billionaire currency trader, has a longstanding history of financing progressive organizations and initiatives across the globe. Allen warns that one such organization Soros is financially connected […]

The contest for the Republican nomination in Alabama’s U.S. Senate race has all the makings of a true horserace according to a recently released poll from Club for Growth PAC, the political action committee of Washington, D.C.-based Club for Growth. According to a poll conducted by WPA Intelligence on behalf of Club for Growth PAC […]

State Rep. Andrew Sorrell (R-Muscle Shoals), who is seeking the GOP nomination for Alabama’s open State Auditor’s office, on Monday announced that he was directing a significant amount of his campaign’s resources toward an aggressive media purchase. According to Sorrell, the upcoming filing on his Fair Campaign Practices Act (FCPA) report, which will be made […]

7. Prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Alabama cop Former Huntsville Police officer David McCoy is being charged for capital murder after his girlfriend Courtney Spraggins, who was seven months pregnant, was shot and killed. McCoy claimed he didn’t know the victim, but investigators found McCoy’s pictures in Spraggins’ car, leading them to believe […]

State Rep. Joe Faust (R-Fairhope) has been a fixture in Baldwin County politics over the past three decades, first serving one the Baldwin County Commission and now in the Alabama House of Representatives. Last summer, Faust announced he would be seeking a sixth term in the legislature, representing Alabama House District 94, which includes Fairhope, […]

The special session of the Legislature ended with $772 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds going to expand high-speed internet, water and sewer projects and health care needs. But it could have just as easily ended with the Legislature holding hands and singing “Kumbaya.” The five-day session’s grand finale came when both chambers (almost) […]

On Friday, U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) blamed his U.S. Senate Republican primary opponent, former Business Council of Alabama head Katie Britt, for playing a role in the appointment of who he deemed to be “liberal, activist federal judges,” who were part of a federal court three-judge panel rejecting the congressional redistricting maps passed by […]

Last week’s passage of legislation to appropriate American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding made it through the Alabama Senate with a 26-1 vote. That lone “no” vote was State Sen. Sam Givhan (R-Huntsville), who questioned the process and some of the specific allocations of the funding. During an appearance on Huntsville radio WVNN’s “The Dale […]

As the final regular legislative session of the quadrennium evolves, it is apparent that the legislature will not touch any substantive or controversial issues, but simply pass the budgets and go home to campaign. It is election year in the Heart of Dixie. If legislators are listening to their constituents, they are hearing one thing […]

Now what? That’s a question from those waiting to see how the Alabama Legislature will respond to a three-judge federal court panel rejecting the congressional maps passed into law by the legislature during a special session last year. State Senate Majority Leader Clay Scofield (R-Guntersville) downplayed the possibility of immediate from Goat Hill on the […]

This week is National School Choice Week and with that an opportunity to highlight the fact that parents have a choice between public schools, private schools or homeschooling when it comes to educating their children. Education is not one size fits all. I am a proud graduate of Sparkman High which is part of the […]