State Reps. Chris Pringle and Barbara Drummond have introduced a bipartisan resolution supporting the state's aerospace industry, especially when it...

Dozens of prominent Alabamians have endorsed Governor Kay Ivey’s budget proposal to spend $25 million expanding Alabama’s First Class Pre-K program. The endorsees are all members of the Alabama School Readiness Alliance, which bills itself as “a statewide, nonprofit coalition advocating for the expansion of high-quality, voluntary pre-k.” Many of Alabama’s most respected philanthropic and […]

Byrne: "It’s never too late to do the right thing. And abolishing the federal Department of Education is clearly the right thing to do."

A new poll shows former Attorney General Jeff Sessions is still leading the 3-way race for the Republican nomination, and the right to beat U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) in November

MONTGOMERY — Elected officials and civic leaders throughout the rural parts of Alabama will often gripe that their regions of the state are overlooked when policymakers devise economic growth plans. They contend the focus is on the metropolitan areas in Alabama, primarily the areas that include Birmingham, Mobile, Montgomery, Huntsville and Tuscaloosa, and their suburbs. […]

State Rep. Tommy Hanes has introduced a piece of legislation entitled the "Second Amendment Preservation Act" that he claims would make certain federal...

The Auburn men's basketball team on Wednesday evening beat the University of Alabama 95-91 in an overtime thriller.

Optimism among small businesses continues to climb, according to the latest National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) report. The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index hit the top 10% of all readings in its 46-year history. NFIB chief economist William Dunkelberg underscored the health of the current environment for small business. “2020 is off to an […]

Congressional candidate Jeff Coleman released an ad on Wednesday in which he seeks to play up his role as an old fashioned family man. The 30-second spot features Coleman brandishing a baseball bat called “The Respect Her.” The candidate describes how every time one of his three daughters brought home a date he would have […]

The Alabama Senate's Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development Committee considered a bill by State Sen. Arthur Orr that would explicitly make it a...

All of this is moot because most legislators are not going to be willing to attempt to cut one tax and then raise another while their name gets tied to the tax increase.

The 2020 legislative session, which began last week, will be the second session of Governor Kay Ivey’s administration. For the second straight year, she and the legislature will be facing a major obstacle. The prison problem is the paramount issue for the year. The state must address and resolve this dilemma or the federal authorities […]

MONTGOMERY — For some time now, the Poarch Band of Creek Indians have been promoting their “Winning for Alabama” gaming proposal on various mediums throughout Alabama, which as advertised would give the state of Alabama $1 billion upfront and at least $350 million annually beyond that. During a sit-down interview that aired on Huntsville radio’s […]

The pervasive use of online pornography is having a negative impact on our society, reaching almost every aspect of daily life and creating an unrecognized web of harm. Today’s mainstream pornography is not the magazine of past decades. Instead, it is primarily violent, rape-themed, incest-themed, sexist, racist and dehumanizing hardcore material. The large-scale use of […]

The Appalachian Regional Commission announced a $733,150 POWER grant has been approved for Opportunity Alabama, Inc., a nonprofit located in Birmingham.

From our American press corps to major political parties, and in some cases even state and national government, American institutions appear less and less competent and trustworthy by the day. In my adult life, the first taste of it was in 2000 with the dangling-chad disaster in Florida’s general election. Granted, statewide margins had probably […]

The fight is back on over the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act. On Tuesday, Yellowhammer News reported on the Alabama Senate Governmental Affairs Committee holding a public hearing on a bill by State Sen. Gerald Allen (R-Tuscaloosa) that would enhance the penalty provision of the act. This came in the wake of the Alabama Supreme Court […]

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State Senator Tim Melson (R-Florence) introduced a bill Tuesday that would allow Alabamians with qualifying medical conditions to purchase and use cannabis for medical use. The system would be strictly regulated. Patients with a prescription from a state-approved doctor would be issued a “medical cannabis card.” Additionally, any person wishing to cultivate, process, dispense, transport […]

MONTGOMERY — Former Judge Roy Moore brought his old Ten Commandments monument back to his office in Montgomery on Tuesday afternoon. Moore said he wanted to bring the monument back to Montgomery because “it can unite us.” The monument in question, which had been stored for years at a local church, was at the center […]

Bernie wins, Buttigieg second, Klobuchar surprises, Warren and Biden fall

Alabama cities would be prohibited from enacting new occupational taxes without legislative permission, under a proposal approved Tuesday by the House.

Lt. Governor Will Ainsworth addressed a crowd at a BCA governmental affairs committee meeting, discussing his 21st Century Workforce Commission's report.

The newly-relocated Alabama Power USA Coastal Weather Research Center hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday to celebrate its grand opening on the University of South Alabama campus. “The center is an important part of the meteorology program at South,” said Dr. Sytske Kimball, professor of meteorology and chair of earth sciences. “We are thankful for […]