Conservative media icon Rush Limbaugh passed away on Wednesday morning following a battle with Stage IV lung cancer. The announcement was made by Limbaugh’s wife at the beginning of his namesake daily talk radio show, which is heard by about 27 million people every week. Whether one agrees with his ideological beliefs or not, media […]

The numbers have been crunched, and Alabama’s Fourth Congressional District supported then-President Donald J. Trump in the 2020 election more than any other district in the United States. Daily Kos, a left leaning political website, has been conducting a calculation of the presidential election results broken down by each of the nation’s 435 congressional districts. […]

Last week’s announcement by U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Tuscaloosa) not to seek reelection in 2022 was not a huge surprise to many political watchers. However, it has triggered speculation as to who might seek to fill that vacancy. Among the names mentioned as possible candidates on the Republican side include U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville), […]

After U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) on Monday announced he would not seek reelection to a seventh term in 2022, candidates from both parties started circling the waters in the nascent race to succeed Alabama’s longest serving senator. However, U.S. Senator Rick Scott (R-FL), chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), is already emphasizing […]

MONTGOMERY — Legislators return to the State House on Tuesday for the fourth day of the 2021 regular session. The third day of legislative business this past Thursday saw three major bills advance from their respective chambers of origin; HBs 170 and 192 passed the House and received a first reading in the Senate, while […]

State Representative Kirk Hatcher (D-Montgomery) has introduced a bill that would allow college athletes to be paid for the use of their image, likeness and name while enrolled at any university in Alabama. This paves the way for student-athletes to receive compensation for endorsing products on social media, making public appearances, having their likeness used […]

Prominent Alabama leaders across the public and private sectors are reacting to U.S. Senator Richard Shelby’s (R-AL) Monday announcement that he will not seek reelection to a seventh term in 2022. Shelby made the announcement in a written statement, which can be read here. Reactions quickly poured in, including from the Yellowhammer State’s chief executive. […]

U.S. Senator Richard C. Shelby (R-AL) on Monday announced he will not seek reelection in 2022. His current term is set to expire on January 3, 2023. Shelby, already Alabama’s longest-serving senator in history, continues to have an unprecedented impact on his home state. He is now serving as vice chairman of the powerful Senate […]

Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin this week filed his 2020 year-end finance report, showing $1,003,783 raised so far with $1,000,756 cash on hand for his upcoming campaign. Woodfin officially announced his reelection bid last week and already has a big cash advantage. In fact, the recent donations to Woodfin are records for any Birmingham municipal race […]

MONTGOMERY — The Alabama Legislature on Tuesday began its 2021 regular session. Both chambers gaveled in at noon to begin the third year of the current quadrennium, ahead of Governor Kay Ivey’s State of the State Address being delivered virtually at 6:30 p.m. instead of the usual fanfare inside the State Capitol. Across the street […]

Governor Kay Ivey on Tuesday evening delivered her 2021 State of the State Address. The address was delivered virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. You can read Ivey’s remarks as prepared as follows:

MONTGOMERY — Alabama Senate President Pro Tem Greg Reed (R-Jasper) on Tuesday submitted to the body updated Standing Committee assignments made by the Senate’s Committee on Assignments. The changes follow the departure of former Senator Cam Ward (R-Alabaster) from the chamber, as well as the leadership changes atop the Senate that also affected a committee […]

MONTGOMERY — Senator Clay Scofield (R-Guntersville) on Tuesday officially became the majority leader of the Alabama State Senate. The ascension was formalized minutes after the start of the legislature’s 2021 regular session when newly elected Pro Tem Greg Reed (R-Jasper) resigned his former post as majority leader and delivered to the Senate a letter notifying […]

MONTGOMERY — State Senator Greg Reed (R-Jasper) on Tuesday was elected by his colleagues to serve as president pro tempore of the Alabama Legislature’s upper chamber. The pro tem is the highest ranking senator in the body; while the lieutenant governor presides over the chamber, the pro tem is widely viewed as the most powerful […]

The Alabama Education Association (AEA) board of directors on Monday announced the unanimous selection of Amy Hubbard Marlowe to serve as executive director of the state’s de facto teachers union. Marlowe has been serving as AEA interim executive director since January 2019. She reacted to being appointed on a permanent basis in a written statement. […]

A bill is being sponsored by State Rep. Chip Brown (R-Hollinger’s Island) that would withdraw state tax abatements and other economic incentives from websites and social media companies that censor the speech of their users. The legislation was prefiled last Thursday ahead of the Alabama Legislature’s 2021 regular session, which begins on Tuesday, February 2. […]

Former U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) is cashing in on the infatuation many in the national media had with his short stint in office. Jones on Friday announced he has decided to join CNN as a “political commentator.” His first appearance in this newfound role will come Friday afternoon on “The Lead,” the CNN show […]

In an op-ed published in the Washington Examiner on Thursday, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) denounced the executive order issued last week by President Joe Biden allowing biological males to compete in female sports. The order allows transgender females — biological males who identify as females — to utilize female restrooms and locker rooms in K-12 schools […]

Jessica Taylor on Tuesday officially launched “NextGen Conservatives PAC” in an effort to elect the next generation of conservative leaders to important offices across the United States. Taylor, a native of the Yellowhammer State, ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in Alabama’s Second Congressional District this past cycle, narrowly missing out on making the […]

Congressman Gary Palmer (AL-06) on Tuesday interviewed with Talk 99.5’s “Matt & Val Show,” blasting congressional Democrats’ current effort to convict former President Donald Trump in a Senate impeachment trial as unconstitutional. The House of Representatives, on a largely party-line vote, voted to impeach Trump when he was still in office following the January 6 […]

U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (AL-02) on Tuesday confirmed he has been appointed to the House Agriculture Committee and the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. Moore began serving his first term in Congress on January 3 upon the start of the 117th Congress. The Republican from Enterprise is himself a veteran, and agriculture in Alabama’s Second Congressional […]

From the Wiregrass to the White House, Cliff Sims has seen a lot over the past five years. The Enterprise native served as a key adviser to then-candidate Donald Trump’s ultimately successful 2016 campaign before being appointed as director of White House message strategy and special assistant to the president when Trump took office in January […]

ProgressPAC, the state political action committee of the Business Council of Alabama (BCA), on Monday announced the organization’s 2021 board of directors, including a new chairman and vice chairman. Per a release, Angus Cooper III has been elected to serve as chairman of the ProgressPAC board. He succeeds PowerSouth’s Gary Smith, who recently became chairman […]

State Rep. Chip Brown (R-Hollinger’s Island) announced Monday that he will sponsor a bill creating a “Sexual Assault Survivors Bill of Rights” during the upcoming legislative session. The legislation would establish certain standards for how the government handles evidence collection and storage in sexual assault cases, and it would require the government to inform each […]