Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard, R-Auburn and several other Republican legislators today unveiled the ‘Alabama Future Workforce Initiative,” a bill aimed at boosting the number of high school students participating in career-tech dual enrollment programs around the state. The initiative creates a $10 million scholarship program for high school students participating in the programs. With […]

Although she didn’t call him by name, it was abundantly clear during Tuesday’s regularly scheduled Alabama Public Service Commission meeting that PSC President Twinkle Cavanaugh had a message she wanted to get across to fellow commissioner Terry Dunn. Dunn recently wrote an op-ed claiming the much maligned “War on Coal” is just a smokescreen behind […]

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus recently announced that George Williams of Bay Minette, Ala. will serve on the RNC’s National African American Advisory Council. Williams is Senior Vice Chairman of the Alabama Republican Party, the second highest ranking GOP official on the state level. He is a Vietnam veteran and a retired Drug Enforcement […]

Gallup has just released their annual “State of the States” survey, which polls Americans’ views on politics, culture, religion and numerous other areas of interest. The survey randomly sampled 178,527 adults living in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. The sample size is enormous, which gives a lower-than-average margin of error (±1 nationally, ±3 in […]

Yesterday an Anniston Star reporter  published a “Hot Blast” comparing Alabama to Russia. No, it wasn’t comparing Alabama’s recent bout with unbearably freezing weather with Russia’s Siberian Tundra. It wasn’t even pining for Alabama’s system of government to be more like the Russian state — although Alabama conservatives do sometimes jokingly refer to the Anniston paper as […]

Yellowhammer Multimedia, LLC announced today that over 1 million people visited YellowhammerNews.com in the month of January, a new record for the site. “Our growth has been entirely word-of-mouth,” said Yellowhammer CEO Cliff Sims. “We’re filling a void in the marketplace. It’s common knowledge that many mainstream media outlets have a blatant liberal bias and […]

Matt Jenkins, Republican candidate for Congress in Alabama’s Seventh Congressional District, this morning came out in support of same sex marriage. “Back in September I promised ‘New Ideas for a New Generation,’ Jenkins wrote on his campaign’s Facebook page. “Today I want to endorse same sex marriage. I promised I would uphold the US Constitution, […]

Johnny Galecki of “The Big Bang Theory” and comedian Richard Lewis may have been the big names in Hyundai’s Super Bowl commercial, but it was the Alabama-made Hyundai Elantra that was the real star of the ad. “I’ve always loved Super Bowl ads,” Galecki said in a statement. “The commercials during the game are always […]

Prognosticators are saying 2014 just might be a big year for the Birmingham, Ala. real estate market. CNN Money just released a brand new list of the 10 hottest housing markets for the coming year, and it looks like the Magic City stacks up well against other metropolitan areas around the country. Here’s was CNN […]

At the height of the debate over the so-called Gang of Eight’s immigration reform bill last May, Yahoo! News published an article in their “Power Players” section titled “Sen. Jeff Sessions almost single-handedly trying to derail ‘Gang of Eight’ immigration bill.” Although he wasn’t able to stop it in the Senate, the consistent pressure he […]

Sen. Scott Beason, R-Gardendale, announced Friday that he will not seek a third term in the Alabama Senate, stoking speculation that he may run for congress in Alabama’s Sixth District, as he did previously in 2012. Beason has been a conservative lightning rod in the legislature in recent years. He led the charge on Alabama’s […]

Navy SEALS are well known for their unmatched toughness on the battlefield, but former Navy SEAL commander Ryan Zinke has decided he’s ready to put his skill set to use in the rough-and-tumble arena of U.S. politics. He’s currently running for the lone congressional seat in his home state of Montana. Zinke is a former […]

President Obama is set to appoint Vice Admiral Michael Rogers to replace Gen. Keith Alexander as the head of the National Security Agency (NSA), the Pentagon announced Thursday. Rogers is currently the head of U.S. Cyber Command. Rogers, who is a graduate of Auburn University’s Raymond J. Harbert College of Business, will take over the […]

(Above: Lt. Nadd comes home a hero) Ever soldier deserves a hero’s welcome. Charles (Chuck) Nadd is the son of immigrants who came to the United States in the 1980s in search of the American Dream. He was born in Florida and raised with a strong sense of pride in America. Some of his earliest […]

Republican Congressional Leadership released a one-page document on Thursday outlining the “principles” they will use as they approach immigration reform. The full text can be read below. Standards for Immigration Reform PREAMBLE Our nation’s immigration system is broken and our laws are not being enforced. Washington’s failure to fix them is hurting our economy and […]

Republican leaders in the United States House of Representatives on Thursday released a document outlining the “principles” they are sticking to as they approach immigration reform. Among the principles is a promise to put border security and “interior enforcement” first. But Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., says the House leaders’ “principles” are nothing more than recycled […]

Alabama is one of fourteen states that has not outlawed bestiality, but a bill currently making its way through the legislature may change that in the near future. Senate Bill 151, sponsored by Sen. Tom Whatley, R-Auburn, would make sexual contact with an animal illegal in Alabama. The bill passed the Senate today with no […]

Several years ago, a business dispute led an Alabama mother and father to stop allowing their children’s grandparents to visit. The grandparents sued for access to the children under Alabama’s Grandparent Visitation Act. The judge ruled for the grandparents and granted them unsupervised visitation rights for a few hours one day a week and allowed […]

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich over the weekend recognized Paul Reynolds, Alabama’s Republican National Committeeman, for showing “real leadership for economic growth” by passing a strongly worded resolution at the RNC’s winter meeting in Washington, D.C. Reynolds’ resolution slams the Obama Administration for having a “flawed understanding of how a capitalist economy succeeds,” and calls […]

FarmPAC, the political action committee of the Alabama Farmers Federation, earlier this week endorsed candidates for Alabama secretary of state, auditor and public service commission. The Alabama Farmers Federation, an affiliate of the American Farm Bureau Federation, is the state’s largest farm organization with more than 365,000 members. FarmPAC endorsed John Merrill for secretary of […]

President Obama’s State of the Union Address laid out his agenda for the next year: the same failed policies as last year. Despite his soaring rhetoric, Obama will continue to cripple the coal industry and cut off oil and natural gas development while promoting costly renewable energy. In his speech Tuesday night, Obama was not […]

According the Trussville Tribune, Beverly Elders Cross had never even used the four-wheel drive setting on her Chevrolet Suburban until Tuesday. “I thought there would be that one time I may need it and I’d be glad I had it,” Cross told Tribune reporter Gary Lloyd. Truer words have never been spoken. On Tuesday, as […]

Just like the rest of us, the weather put the Alabama legislature in quite a predicament this week. When the House of Representatives adjourned last Thursday, they agreed to reconvene the following Tuesday, as is their standard procedure. The time they chose just so happened to land right at the beginning of a day-long period […]

Inside-the-beltway publication Roll Call had a contest going last night to see which member of the House or Senate could give the best 3-word response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address. Using the hashtag #SOTUin3words, the Twitterverse was abuzz with witty responses from both sides of the aisle. “Redundant imperial president,” said […]