According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Alabama is the only state in the country that has seen its unemployment rate rise over the last 12 months. Alabama Department of Labor Commissioner Tom Surtees announced this morning that Alabama’s unemployment rate rose for the third straight month, to 6.9%. That’s up almost a full point […]

(Above: Sessions addresses Sens. Reid and Schumer’s immigration bill on the floor of the U.S. Senate) Sen. Jeff Sessions took to the Senate floor this week to respond to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-Ill., who are once again pushing for the U.S. House of Representatives to pass the Senate’s […]

“The chance of repealing Obamacare is zero,” U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-AL03, said bluntly to the Pell City Rotary Club earlier this week. The reactions to Rogers’ statement were predictable. Emails coming in through Yellowhammer’s contact page from concerned conservatives decried his remarks as defeatism — or worse, complicity. Alabama’s liberal media seized the opportunity […]

It’s not unusual for Alabama political candidates to be unintentionally funny. 2010 was actually a banner year for viral campaign ads coming out of the Yellowhammer State. The combination of quirky candidates and the rise of YouTube resulted in Alabama campaign spots and their subsequent parodies exploding across the web. In spite of the fact […]

(Above: Rick & Bubba talk politics) When Yellowhammer News CEO Cliff Sims sat down with Alabama-based, nationally syndicated talk radio giants Rick Burgess and Bill “Bubba” Bussey earlier this week, the guys had a lot on their minds. From laughing about the early years of their wildly successful radio show, to remembering the tragic death […]

Rainy Day Patriots Tea Party and the 60 Plus Association have teamed up to host a 6th Congressional District debate on Thursday at Hoover Tactical Firearms. Meanwhile a few miles north, the Alabama Policy Institute will be hosting a meet and greet and question and answer time with State House candidates from House Districts 46 […]

Paul DeMarco today released a new campaign spot set in the Homewood Pharmacy, a familiar landmark in DeMarco’s Edgewood neighborhood and the perfect setting for a healthcare-related ad. Here’s the transcript: You see them everywhere — victims of ObamaCare. Some were promised they could keep their doctor, they can’t. Others’ premiums went up 30 percent. […]

The Democratic Party is all but defunct in Alabama. That has left traditionally Democrat-aligned groups like the Alabama Education Association (AEA) to concoct elaborate schemes to funnel money into Republican primaries to influence elections without voters realizing. This election cycle, deceptively-named groups like The Alabama Foundation for Limited Government and Stop Common Core PAC, which […]

New Hope High School, located just southeast of Huntsville, Ala., announced today that former Alaska governor Sarah Palin will deliver the commencement address at the school’s upcoming graduation ceremony. Madison County School Superintendent Dr. David Copeland said the grandmother of one of New Hope’s graduates is a personal friend of Palin’s and played a key […]

An impromptu meeting in Washington, D.C. last year has now led to an unprecedented effort by an Alabama family to raise awareness about Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a rare disease that causes muscle degeneration and often kills its victims by the time they reach their late teens or early 20s. Gabe Griffin, the 9-year-old son […]

Chad Griffin of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is out today with an op-ed declaring that his organization’s “unprecedented, $8.5 million effort to advance equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people” in the south will lead to Alabama becoming a “new home for LGBT equality.” The new initiative, which HRC has dubbed “Project […]

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley today released his first campaign ad of the 2014 election cycle, titled “Accomplishments.” In 2010 you elected me as your governor. Since then, unemployment is down, we’ve recruited over 50,000 jobs, saved over a billion dollars, and launched the largest roads program in state history. We’ve faced difficult challenges, but Alabamians […]

Lisa Warren, CEO of the Birmingham-based Andrews Sports Medicine, told the Birmingham Business Journal (BBJ) today that “trying to manage patient care in a highly regulated environment” keeps her up at night. Warren runs the business side of world-renowned orthopedic surgeon James Andrews’ medical practice. “The facility’s orthopedists are known for working with some of […]

A new poll commissioned by the conservative-leaning Alabama Forestry Association (AFA) shows two state legislators sitting atop the field in the crowded 6th Congressional District Republican Primary, which is likely headed for a runoff. The poll surveyed 401 likely Republican voters in AL-06 by telephone last week, and has a margin of error of 4.9% […]

It was only a matter of time before the the gloves started to come off in the race for Alabama’s 6th Congressional District seat. Businessman Will Brooke is out today with a new ad taking direct aim at Rep. Paul DeMarco, who is widely viewed as the race’s current frontrunner. “Folks, we need to change […]

One Alabama Democrat has chosen to criticize capitalism in quite possibly the most capitalistic way imaginable — by launching a startup company that produces mobile apps. Josh Segall, an attorney at Copeland Franco in Montgomery, Ala. and a former Democratic nominee for Congress in Alabama’s 3rd congressional district, is now the co-founder of the mobile […]

Three Dothan, Ala. women are facing a combined 560 years in prison if they are convicted and given the maximum sentence for 56 counts of felony voter fraud. Olivia Lee Reynolds, 65, Lesa Renee Coleman, 49, and Janice Lee Hart, 63, were arrested late last week following an investigation into irregularities in the City of […]

The Jefferson County Republican Party held a straw poll today in Gardendale ahead of the 2014 Republican Party Primary elections, which are set to take place June 3. Straw poll results are not always an accurate predictor of what’s going to happen on election day, but are often a reflection of each campaign’s organizational skills. […]

The Poarch Creek Band of Indians, who run several controversial casinos on Indian-controlled land within the Alabama borders, are going all-in to unseat sitting Attorney General Luther Strange. Strange, the Republican incumbent, has aggressively fought the proliferation of gambling in Alabama since taking office in 2011. A lawsuit brought by Strange to shut down electronic […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Martha Roby, R-AL02, announced Friday that she will undertake the “significant and solemn responsibility” of serving on a special House committee created to investigate the full scope of the September 11, 2012, terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya. On Thursday, the House passed legislation establishing the House Select Committee. House Speaker John […]

Robocall: an automated telephone call that delivers a recorded message, typically on behalf of a political party or telemarketing company. Voters across Alabama have been flooded with harassing robocalls to their cell phones in last several days. And if recent Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rulings are any indication, the perpetrators are risking millions of dollars […]

Most of the action during Alabama’s 2014 election cycle is taking place in Republican legislative primaries. With the exception of a highly competitive race for Place 2 on the Public Service Commission, Alabama’s statewide elected officials are either running unopposed, facing weak primary opposition, or even weaker Democrats. At the top of the ballot, Alabama […]

Shelby County resident Trudie Hudson has filed a lawsuit against the Hoover city and Shelby County boards of education and the Alabama state school superintendent for not preventing politically active organizations from using taxpayer resources to collect membership dues by payroll deductions in aid of political activity, which is strictly prohibited by state law. After […]

Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., on Wednesday at an Appropriations Committee hearing on the fiscal year 2015 budget proposal for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), sharply criticized outgoing HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’s refusal to testify on the $69.8 billion spending plan that she crafted. In her place, officials from various agencies under the […]