A pre-election Daily Beast article featuring interviews with Briarwood Presbyterian Church members in Birmingham is so simplistic and stereotype-ridden it isn’t worth reading, wrote media expert and veteran journalist Terry Mattingly on his GetReligion site this week.     The story, written by D.C.-based reporter Andrew Desiderio ran with this near-comical double-decker headline: Alabama Evangelicals Find […]

    One of Alabama’s greatest small business success stories continues to be told in new ways to new audiences as Birmingham-based Two Maids & A Mop will be featured in a new episode of CNBC’s “The Job Interview.” The details: — “I was honored to be given an opportunity to showcase our company and share […]

  Alabama Republican Party Chairman Terry Lathan made the following statement regarding the U.S. Senate election results: “While we are deeply disappointed in the extremely close U.S. Senate election results, with our candidate Judge Roy Moore, we respect the voting process given to us by our Founding Fathers. We are grateful to the army of […]

  Wayne Farms LLC today marked the official start of a major expansion project at its Enterprise Fresh Processing Facility that will significantly increase production and add 400 new jobs. The company’s $105 million expansion project is expected to be complete in January 2019. With the new hires, Wayne Farms’ total workforce at the Enterprise […]

          Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: TOM LAMPRECHT:  Harry, I would like to take you to a new Barna study that was just released. As the average pastor grows older in America, churches say they are struggling to find young Christians who want to become future pastors. […]

  “Congratulations to Doug Jones on a hard fought victory,” President Trump tweeted Tuesday night, after the Democrat narrowly defeated conservative Republican Roy Moore in the Alabama special election for Jeff Sessions’ Senate seat. Trump also noted, “The write-in votes played a very big factor, but a win is a win. The people of Alabama are […]

    Laura Pekarik bakes cupcakes and sells them from a food truck. Her truck provided a great opportunity, letting her open a business without having to spend big to hire a staff and rent space in a building. “Instead of renting a whole brick and mortar and managing a team of people, it was […]

  9:35 — Oh well.  Shoulda. Coulda. Woulda.  It’s time to re-group, to heal, to learn … and to fight back. 9:25 — AP calls it for Jones.  Too soon? 9:24 — Tie ball game! 49.2 to 49.2 9:20 — Those odds makers are all over the place. About an hour ago they had Moore favored to […]

Tep.io’s Wes Thompson joins The Ford Faction guys to talk about the growth of Bitcoin, artificial intelligence, a Mark Zuckerburg/Elon Musk nerd fight, and the brand new “Tech Tuesday” intro song! http://media.blubrry.com/yellowhammer/content.blubrry.com/yellowhammer/Wes_Thompson_Scares_The_Ford_Faction_For_Tech_Tuesday_.mp3 Click here to listen in a new window. Subscribe to the Yellowhammer Radio Presents The Ford Faction podcast on iTunes or Stitcher.

  Elisabeth Chramer of Yellowhammer News spoke with voters outside The Church at Brook Hills polling precinct in the Birmingham-area to find out how voters felt about the ballot candidates, the national media attention, and what they wish the rest of the country knew about Alabama. WATCH:

  The rural community of Gallant saw the mounted arrival of Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore and his wife Kayla this morning at around 10:30 a.m. The couple’s polling place was much more crowded than in recent elections due to large numbers of people. Moore briefly answered questions after casting his ballot, not showing […]

Voters in the Huntsville-area spoke with Yellowhammer News about how they voted, how they feel about the election and what they think about Roy Moore.  WATCH:     Video Credit: Jacob Woods

    Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill reports that the projection he released of 25 percent voter turnout is on track to be an accurate prediction. If the trends continue, the Senate race today will easily exceed the final numbers for the Aug. 15 primary (reporting 18 percent) and Sept. 26 Republican runoff (reporting 15 percent). […]

A nationally-known political consultant and pollster who has done a lot of work in Alabama suggests that when it comes to today’s Senate election, we shouldn’t trust current projections too much. “To be honest with you, I wouldn’t put a lot of faith in some of the polling I’ve seen over the last couple of […]

        Republican Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore and his wife showed up to vote in Alabama Tuesday while riding horses. Moore, who usually travels by horse when going to vote in an election where he is a candidate, kept up with his tradition as he went to vote in the Dec. 12 […]

          Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: TOM LAMPRECHT: Harry, I’d like to take you back to a subject we covered about a week ago. It was the oral arguments concerning Jack Phillips’ Masterpiece Cakeshop that went before the Supreme Court. David French wrote a piece in the […]

      I’m approaching my 82nd birthday, and my daughter will occasionally suggest that modernity is perplexing to me because I’m from prehistoric times. As such, it points to one of the unavoidable problems of youth — namely, the temptation to think that today’s behavioral standards have always been. Let’s look at a few […]

    I didn’t vote for Roy Moore because I believe at least some of those allegations are credible. I didn’t vote for Doug Jones, either, because he supports what any just man would call infanticide. And no, I didn’t waste it on a write-in candidate. I did what I’ve done in every general election […]

Fox News contributor Dr. Gina Louden joins Yellowhammer Radio’s “The Ford Faction” to discuss the Alabama Senate race, how it compares to President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and her prediction about who’ll win. Subscribe to the Yellowhammer Radio Presents The Ford Faction podcast on iTunes or Stitcher. http://media.blubrry.com/yellowhammer/content.blubrry.com/yellowhammer/Dr_Gina_Louden_compares_Roy_Moore_s_campaign_to_Trumps_2016_Presidential_Campaign_with_attack_s_and_what_the_media_won_t_tell_you_.mp3 Click here to listen in a new […]

  When it comes to protests, America has lost its senses. A previous column of mine provided a single example, from southern Alabama last week, of an overreaction to a silent, respectful protest. That one example is indicative of a larger problem, on both sides of the protest equation. The overly broad (but accurate) description […]

  We know what Alabama’s senators think about Roy Moore. — Sen. Richard Shelby (Tuscaloosa) has inundated national news reports for weeks as the most high-profile Alabama Republican to support someone other than his party’s nominee for Senate. — Sen. Luther Strange (Birmingham), for whose seat Moore is vying, has been a little more ambivalent […]

  As he gears up for his gubernatorial run, Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle is pushing a more connected “Cyber Alabama”, noting that the state ranks 40th in the nation for internet connectivity. But the number of state residents he cites lacking what Battle deems adequate internet speeds – 883,000 – is tied to the Federal […]

    If you’ve been on the internet in the past few months, chances are you’ve seen something about net neutrality, that nebulous term that governs the conversation on internet freedom. The social media site Reddit features daily posts about it, John Oliver devoted two segments of his show to calling for activism to protect […]

          Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: TOM LAMPRECHT:  Harry, I want to take you back to last Wednesday. President Donald Trump allowed a 1995 law that was passed by Congress requiring the relocation of the United States embassy in Israel to move to Jerusalem. Now, this was […]