The Alabama Policy Institute, a conservative think tank located in Birmingham, Ala., just released their annual list of the most business-friendly cities in Alabama, and it contains a few surprises. “In order for Alabama to excel in an increasingly competitive global marketplace, Alabama must be as attractive as possible to businesses looking to establish or […]

Yellowhammer CEO Cliff Sims sat down with Great Southern Wood Preserving CEO Jimmy Rane yesterday in Abbeville, Ala. to shoot the latest episode of “The Exchange.” RELATED: Check out recent “Exchange” interviews with Steve Forbes and Austal President Craig Perciavalle Over four decades ago, Rane started Great Southern Wood with one employee and a 1961 […]

(Above: Parker Griffith speaks at “Hot Dogs and Yellow Dogs”) “We are now the dominant party,” Parker Griffith, Democratic candidate for governor said yesterday at an event dubbed “Hot Dogs and Yellow Dogs.” That may be the case on the national level right now — although “dominant” is probably much too strong of a word […]

As rain started to fall on campus at the University of Alabama, Crimson Tide quarterback AJ McCarron saw a fellow student trying in vain to hail a bus. “We had gotten done with practice, and I saw two buses starting to pull away,” McCarron recalled. “I saw AJ, and I could tell he had some […]

Rep. Bradley Byrne, R-AL01, will host the third-ranking House Republican in Mobile, Ala. next week for a tour of Austal USA. House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy will visit the shipyard, which is currently building the Littoral Combat Ship for the U.S. Navy. “As the House Majority Whip, Congressman McCarthy has broad influence within the Republican […]

BET.com, the website of Black Entertainment Television, has a piece out this week touting the record number of black Republicans running for public office in Alabama this cycle. 11 black Republicans are seeking elective office in the state this year, compared to just one in both 2010 and 2012. BET highlighted 9 of the 11. […]

MARCH 26, 9:49 a.m. — An Auburn University student named Zac Smith tweeted a picture of a message he’d found written inside a bathroom stall in the Haley Center, a 10-floor, 400,000+ sq. ft. building that house the University Bookstore, as well as facilities for the College of Liberal Arts and College of Education. To […]

Gov. Robert Bentley’s efforts to cure what ails the State of Alabama sure don’t pay as well as his medical practice once did, but the assets he accrued during his time as a doctor are now proving to be very helpful to the physician-turned-governor. Perhaps the most well-known plank in Bentley’s campaign platform in 2010 […]

As you may have heard, Todd Burpo’s best-selling book, Heaven is for Real, has been turned into a movie and it hits the theaters Wednesday (April 16th). Burpo’s four-year-old son allegedly visited heaven after being anesthetized for an appendectomy, and the book tells his story. Unfortunately, Heaven is for Real isn’t the only book of its kind to hit […]

In a letter sent today to the Alabama Ethics Commission, Tuscaloosa coal miner John Box asks officials to investigate what he describes as “misuse of state office” by an employee of Public Service Commissioner Terry Dunn. Mr. Box specifically asks the Ethics Commission to review two examples of alleged misconduct by Dunn’s chief of staff […]

It’s pretty unreal when you see it. Your 2013 tax dollars — which are due today — went primarily to pay for government benefits. Major entitlements (Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security) gobbled up 49 percent, while more federal benefits took another 20 percent. These additional “income security” benefits include federal employee retirement and disability, unemployment […]

Not that there was any doubt about how serious University of Alabama fans are about their football program, but a stat released today by Lost Letterman should only further establish Tuscaloosa as the football capital of the world. Alabama’s “A-Day” game is the 15th and final practice of the spring and is made open to […]

Fresh off the announcement of a massive fundraising haul in the first quarter of 2014, Paul DeMarco’s congressional campaign is kicking it into high gear and starting to spend some of that cash to move votes. Here’s the transcript for the DeMarco campaign’s first television ad, which can viewed above: I’m Paul DeMarco. Do you […]

The Washington Post’s annual ranking of the country’s most challenging high schools is out and seven Alabama schools are on the list, which The Post refers to as “The Challenge Index.” “The index score is the number of college-level tests given at a school in the previous calendar year divided by the number of graduates […]

In spite of the rising costs of health insurance brought on by ObamaCare, the premiums paid by current teachers and education support personnel will stay level in 2015 at $15/month for individual plans and $177/month for family plans. Co-pays for medical care will also remain unchanged, as will the rates for retirees. The board that […]

VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. – Republican 6th Congressional District candidate Will Brooke will report having raised $421,343 in the first quarter of 2014 when campaign finance disclosures are officially released tomorrow. The campaign has raised nearly $740,000 to date, and has $467,937.43 cash-on-hand heading into the second quarter of the year. “First, I want to thank […]

Conservative journalist Quin Hillyer on Monday called Alabama’s 6th Congressional District race “the single most important U.S. House race in the country,” before throwing his support behind Republican Gary Palmer. Hillyer is a contributing editor of National Review, which describes itself as “America’s most widely read and influential magazine and web site for conservative news, […]

A couple in Tuscaloosa, Ala. had their breakfast interrupted on Palm Sunday by a man wielding a machete and demanding their valuables. According to AL.com, the Tuscaloosa Police Department responded to a home invasion call at 10:40 a.m. on Sunday. But by the time they arrived, one of the victims had already subdued the suspect, […]

Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto supposedly said in the 1940s that “You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.” Although it’s unlikely Yamamoto actually said those words, the graphic below indicates that it is probably a pretty accurate statement, regardless of where it originated. According to stats […]

Alabama State Rep. Alvin Holmes, D-Montgomery, has been in the news a lot lately for his bigoted comments on everything from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to interracial adoption, but nothing can compare to what Holmes said on the radio last week when presented with the opportunity to clarify his position on marriage. “Now, I’m […]

(Above: Yellowhammer CEO Cliff Sims interviews Shaun McCutcheon) Shaun McCutcheon hadn’t gotten much sleep when he strolled into The Club, a members-only establishment perched atop Red Mountain in the Birmingham suburb of Homewood, Friday afternoon around 2 p.m. “Do you know where I can get some coffee?” He asked as Yellowhammer’s video crew assembled a […]

HOMEWOOD, Ala. — Rep. Paul DeMarco’s campaign for Congress will report raising more than $484,000 in the first quarter of 2014, making his total contributions to date more than $850,000. “The people of Alabama’s Sixth District have embraced our campaign for conservative, common sense leadership in Congress,” DeMarco said in a release. “The people standing […]

(Above: Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart pokes fun at Will Brooke’s recent ad) Will Brooke, Republican candidate in Alabama’s 6th Congressional District, made quite a splash online several weeks ago when he released an ad containing footage of him literally shooting holes in ObamaCare. The ad has since then been played over 140,000 times and featured […]

MONTGOMERY — Gov. Robert Bentley on Friday announced he had signed the Education Trust Fund Budget as passed by the Legislature without a 2 percent pay raise for teachers, which has been the most contentious intra-party squabble of the 2014 legislative session. The budget was passed on the final day of the session, effectively preventing […]