Delaware’s Red Clay school district now holds the Guinness World Record for the tallest Lego tower ever made. Their tower stands more than 112 feet tall, over 11 stories. More than half a million lego bricks were used in the construction of the tower.

In an email that was sent to the Alabama Republican Party steering committee, one of the committee’s members expressed concerns that the Party may have committed Social Security fraud. The email, which was obtained by Yellowhammer News, was sent by Jeff Peacock, ALGOP Vice Chair for Congressional Districts 1 and 2. In the email, Peacock […]

Here’s a new rule to apply to aspiring presidential candidates: If you have to say you’re considering a run this early, you’re likely not in the top-tier candidate pool. For the third tier candidate, being coy is a vice — not a virtue. Take John Bolton, the former U.N. ambassador known for his trademark bushy […]

The Alabama Republican Party will play host to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker on Friday night at their annual summer dinner. The Party has had some luck with the timing of their speakers in recent years. Texas Gov. Rick Perry spoke to a record crowd in Birmingham in 2011 just a day before he announced his […]

On the final day of business at the Republican National Committee’s summer meeting, the RNC passed a resolution sponsored by Alabama’s National Committeeman Paul Reynolds lambasting the President’s energy policies and expressing support for the coal industry. The resolution “calls upon President Obama, his administration and the Environmental Protection Agency to rescind their misguided and […]

Contributor Ellie Cohen dove into Joe Biden’s polling problem last week, highlighting how his nomination would increase the odds of Republicans taking back the White House in 2016. There’s new evidence out of Virginia — part of the Holy Trinity of battleground states — that lends more credence to the case. In hypothetical match-ups against Chris Christie […]

Today Attorney General Luther Strange and Alabama Policy Institute (API) President Gary Palmer addressed API’s recent receipt of a letter from U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) that inquired about API’s relationship with the American Legislative Exchange Council and asked whether API supports “stand your ground” legislation.  According to a joint statement put out by the […]

An amendment proposed last week to the bylaws of the Alabama Republican Party would have removed from the Party’s steering committee any member who publicly supports a position contrary to the most recent GOP platform, which was adopted during the 2012 Republican National Convention. Today, the amendment’s sponsors, Don Wallace of Tuscaloosa and Bonnie Sachs […]

(Above: a montage of Matt Pitt’s best quotes from his recent NBC 13 interview) After being accused of impersonating a police officer for the second time, Matt Pitt, founder of Birmingham area youth ministry, The Basement, gave a wide-ranging interview to Kalisha Whitman of NBC’s Birmingham affiliate. In the interview, Pitt declared his innocence, flashed […]

In an interview with Raycom’s Max Reiss that aired on Montgomery NBC affiliate WSFA on Wednesday, Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore looked back at the Ten Commandments monument controversy from the early part of last decade. On the 10-year anniversary of his suspension from the bench for missing the deadline to remove the […]

Congressional candidate Dean Young made his position on gay marriage crystal clear yesterday during an interview with Mobile’s local NBC affiliate. “I’m against homosexuals pretending like they’re married,” he said during an on-camera interview, which can be seen above. Young feels like current members of Congress are not doing enough to protect traditional marriage. “Congress […]

Then-president Richard Nixon secretly taped all of his White House conversations from February 1971 until July 1973. As part of a legal agreement signed in the mid-90s not long after Nixon’s death, the tapes have been periodically released in batches since then. The final 340 hours of those tapes was released this week, revealing some […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn, the third most powerful House Democrat, declined to endorse or even encourage a Hillary Clinton presidential campaign in 2016 and said that Jeb Bush or Chris Christie would be potential nominees who could win back the White House for Republicans. Clyburn made the comments Wednesday afternoon in […]

Prior to The Alabama Public Service Commission’s decision to lower rates for Alabama Power customers last week, it had been a quarter century since major changes had been made to Alabama Power’s rate setting structure. The Commission has now turned its attention to Alagasco, which hasn’t seen significant changes in its rate setting mechanism since […]

“The current Lieutenant Governor has mismanaged the Senate the past three years,” Dr. Stan Cooke told Yellowhammer after announcing his plans to challenge Lt. Gov. Kay Ivey in the 2014 Republican primary. Ivey’s primary day-to-day role when the legislature is in session is to preside over the senate. She made the decision during the 2012 […]

Alabama Lieutenant Governor Kay Ivey has been named Co-Chair of the National Lieutenant Governor’s Association’s committee on State Strategies in Military Affairs. This newly formed committee will give lieutenant governors a forum to discuss the effects of federal and state actions related to the military, including Base Realignment and Closures (BRAC) and cuts from sequestration. […]

Howard Dean, the 2004 insurgent presidential candidate who previously said Hillary Clinton would not get a free pass for the Democratic nomination in 2016, has adjusted his view. Appearing in Iowa Wednesday to speak before a labor conference, Dean told The Des Moines Register he’s supporting Clinton in the next White House contest. “At this point, I’m supporting […]

Alex Stack said her immediate reaction to seeing a pickup truck in the median of the Interstate pulling a lawnmower was that the driver must be trying to be funny. It ended up being anything but a joke. Once The truck started bulldozing signs in the median, Stack pulled out her phone and captured a […]

None of the Republican members of Alabama’s U.S. House delegation have indicated that they’ll be signing on to the idea of using Congress’ federal budget powers to defund ObamaCare. In fact, the conservative Heritage Foundation recently launched an ad campaign targeting a handful those Republicans nationally, including five of the state’s six Republicans locally. One […]

On August 6, the Alabama Policy Institute received a letter from Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) inquiring into the Institute’s affiliation with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and specifically ALEC’s support of “stand your ground” laws. Unfortunately, the letter appears aimed more at political intimidation of an organization that directly promotes policies Senator Durbin opposes […]

This is the final installment of a three-part series written by Yellowhammer News’s state political reporter Adam Thomas after he spent a day with Governor Bentley and his team on the governor’s “Road to Economic Recovery Tour.” Part 1: A day with Governor Bentley on the “Road to Economic Recovery” Part 2: Bentley’s pursuit of […]

It’s a thousand degrees outside, it won’t stop raining, and I was mauled last night by a vicious animal I found out later was actually a mosquito. I can’t think of a time I was more in need of some Christmas cheer. State Senator Gerald Allen told Yellowhammer Wednesday that he has pre-filed a bill […]

It took only hours after my story posted last November for the emails to stack up: Ted Cruz can’t run for president, he’s Canadian, they screamed. Just weeks after his unlikely election in Texas, the senator-elect was already dropping hints he had greater ambitions by diagnosing his party’s ills and prescribing solutions for the future in a […]

Burton LeFlore, Democratic candidate for Congress in Alabama’s First District, has an uphill battle ahead of him if he hopes to become the first Democrat to hold the seat since LBJ was occupying the Oval Office. Cook Political Report rates the First District “R+15,” meaning a generic Republican candidate would start with a 15-point advantage […]