Prior to the mid-90s, Alabama was known as “tort hell,” a place National Review judicial writer Jack Park says was “marked by outlandish punitive-damage awards, dodgy procedures, and plaintiff-friendly legal doctrines.” The most notorious example of the Alabama Supreme Court’s apparently severe anti-business bias during that time period took place in BMW v. Gore. In […]

James Talton, the embattled Director of the Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System (CAVHCS), has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation, as reports of mismanagement and impropriety continue to come out. In early June, a federal audit included CAVHCS among 84 VA facilities nationwide cited for unethical practices. According to Department of Veterans […]

The Alabama Free Market Alliance (AFMA), a conservative advocacy group founded by Alabama’s Republican National Committeeman Paul Reynolds, embedded an “undercover” film crew with environmental protestors for several days last month in an effort to get the unvarnished truth about their agenda. On Thursday, AFMA published the video of their findings, and some of what […]

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Parker Griffith hasn’t gotten a lot of traction in Alabama with his platform of two key issues: expanding Medicaid under ObamaCare and implementing a statewide lottery. He has, however, made some headlines for his fiery, and often bizarre, rhetoric. In April he used profanity to try to get his followers ginned up […]

(Above: Rep. Martha Roby (R-AL2) discusses her future with Yellowhammer CEO Cliff Sims) Maybe it is a result of there being very little drama this year in Alabama at the top of the ticket, but Alabama political insiders are already speculating about who’s going to run for what office in 2018. The governor, attorney general […]

A wind energy company led by a personal friend of President Obama’s has nixed plans to build wind farms in northeast Alabama, according to sources with knowledge of the proposed project. Green energy companies have long been the beneficiaries of favorable treatment by the federal government. Tax breaks, subsidies, and often a total lack of […]

One day after Yellowhammer reported the proliferation of former military equipment to local Alabama law enforcement agencies, Huntsville TV station WAFF has discovered that the State of Alabama has been suspended from the federal program that allocates the gear. Congress’s “1033″ program, which has been around for a couple of decades, allows for the transfer […]

Missouri Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson was personally selected by Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon to coordinate the law enforcement response to protests in Ferguson, Mo. A 27-year veteran of the Highway Patrol, Johnson was supposed to be the steady hand amidst the chaos. He started by delivering a stirring speech at a unity rally that […]

It’s only been three months since Rep. Martha Roby (R-AL2) was appointed to serve on the Select Committee to investigate the September 11, 2012, terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya. But the heated debate surrounding the attack and its aftermath, which once dominated news cycle after news cycle, has for the most part cooled down. The […]

This year for the first time, the federal government released data comparing price differences among states and metro areas. The new measurements are known as Regional Price Parities (RPP) and Real Personal Income (RPI). These simple, but powerful data points allow individuals in each state to measure how far their money goes compared to individuals […]

Senior White House aides are currently working with major corporations to “expand the executive actions President Barack Obama takes on immigration,” according to a report by Politico, and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) is not happy about it. The president initially planned to only slow deportations of illegal immigrants and make other alterations to immigration enforcement […]

A Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System (CAVHCS) employee took a recovering vet to a crack house in Tuskegee to buy illegal drugs and solicit a prostitute, but is still employed by the VA over a year after the events occurred, according to a report by the Montgomery Advertiser. An internal investigation also found the […]

The militarization of America’s police forces has gone from being a pet issue of libertarians to the forefront of the national debate as the chaos of the Ferguson protests has played out on television and computer screens across the U.S. But the fact is, it’s nothing new. Congress’s “1033” program, which has been around for […]

For the first time since October of 2012, Alabama’s unemployment rate jumped over 7 percent in July, according to revised numbers released Friday by the Department of Labor. But the economy also grew at the fastest rate it has this year, lending some credibility to the Bentley administration’s argument that the bump in unemployment is […]

The Alabama State Board of Education earlier this week voted 6-2 to give State School Superintendent Tommy Bice a sizable raise. Since taking over as Alabama’s K-12 chief in January of 2012, Bice has made roughly $200,000 annually. Under the new contract approved by the board, his base salary will rise to $250,000. Alabama high […]

Ferguson, Mo., has descended into chaos after a police officer shot and killed an unarmed teenager Saturday night. As tempers continued to run hot on Wednesday, police hit the streets in riot gear, spraying rubber bullets and releasing tear gas. The gentleman on the left has more personal body armor and weaponry than I did […]

The Birmingham City Council on Tuesday morning used a loophole in Alabama’s open meetings law to go into a “closed door executive session” and approve spending $275,000 on Democrat lobbyists to help the city land the 2016 Democratic National Convention. Perhaps most notably, the Council approved spending $150,000 of taxpayer resources on The Podesta Group, […]

In a meeting with the Alabama Media Group editorial board Tuesday, Jesse Jackson slammed Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley’s decision to not expand Medicaid under ObamaCare, and compared it to George Wallace trying to stop black students from enrolling at the University of Alabama. “Wallace blocked the school door based on race,” Jackson said. “[Bentley is] […]

Over the last nine months, over 60,000 unaccompanied illegal immigrant children have been detained by border security after crossing into the United States from Mexico. The children are then placed with “sponsors,” typically relatives, while they await asylum hearings. The U.S. Office of the Administration of Children and Families (ACF) explains: When a child who […]

According to AL.com, the Birmingham City Council on Tuesday morning used a loophole in Alabama’s open meetings law to go into a “closed door executive session” to discuss doling out $275,000 to Democrat lobbyists to help the city land the 2016 Democratic National Convention. City leaders said a public discussion of the contracts could hurt […]

With the 2014 primary elections behind us, all attention is focused on the United States Senate, where the Democrats are clinging to a slim majority and facing a challenging electoral map. Here’s a quick look at the 2014 U.S. Senate races by the numbers: 35: Number of seats up for re-election 21: Number of contested […]

Broadview Networks has just released the above map comparing Internet speeds in states around the country, and Alabama appears to be lagging well behind most other states, especially those in the Northeast. “Using Akamai’s ‘State of the Internet’ Report, we were able to find the average internet speed in each state,” explained Broadview’s Russ Fordyce. “The […]

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Sisters Stacey and Stephanie Dougherty are among the first Industrial Mechatronics graduating class at Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Inc. (MBUSI), the automaker’s Alabama operation. They join their father, Scott Dougherty, a Logistics Group Leader with 17 years at the Alabama plant, as members of the MBUSI family. Now Stephanie, 29, is about to start her own […]

According the The Washington Times, “angry Republican leaders (are) ready to shut (the) door on open primaries.” “Republican National Committee members and activists are still seething about reports that longtime Sen. Thad Cochran, Mississippi Republican, enlisted Democrats to help him win his tough primary contest this summer against state Sen. Chris McDaniel, who was backed […]