One of the most vulnerable venues to mass shootings in recent years nationwide has been places of worship, specifically churches. Over the past several years, Rep. Lynn Greer (R-Rogersville) has attempted to push legislation that would allow churches to bolster protection against these threats by giving security personnel protections similar to what’s contained in Alabama’s […]

The fourth annual Sloss Tech, which will take place on August 2 at the historic Lyric Theatre in Birmingham, will feature a world-renowned keynote speaker. Event organizers Telegraph Creative and TechBirmingham on Tuesday announced that Alexis Ohanian, the internationally known presenter, co-founder of Reddit and Initialized Capital and best-selling author, will headline the 2019 event, which […]

Birmingham-based Protective Life Corporation has closed on the acquisition of Colorado’s Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company (GWL&A), a deal representing a capital investment of approximately $1.2 billion and the largest acquisition in company history. The announcement was made on Monday by Protective Life Corporation that its principal subsidiary, Protective Life Insurance Company, and Protective Life […]

Representative Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope) joined Hill.TV on Tuesday where he stated his support for investigations into Russian meddling with United States elections but questioned the investigating of a presidential campaign, which he considers the “next step.” “If they wanted to open an investigation in the summer of 2016 into what the Russians were doing, I’m […]

Opelika Mayor Gary Fuller has endorsed Congressman Bradley Byrne (AL-01) in Alabama’s 2020 U.S. Senate race, becoming one of the first major local officials in the Yellowhammer State to publicly pick a candidate in the Republican primary. In an endorsement video posted by Byrne’s campaign on Tuesday, Fuller said, “I’ve known Bradley for many years, […]

The lottery in Alabama failed. It was a slam dunk. The people want it, and the legislature couldn’t get it done. The reasons for failure are numerous: The fight between dog track owners and the Poarch Band of Creek Indians The failure to agree on how much of the proceeds, if any, would go to […]

The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday gave final passage to a $19.1 billion disaster package that is especially considered crucial for the Wiregrass in the wake of Hurricane Michael. The measure previously passed the Senate, with Sens. Richard Shelby (R-AL) and Doug Jones (D-AL) voting in the affirmative. Shelby was the lead negotiator on […]

Washington, D.C. based “Senate Conservatives Fund” (SCF) has endorsed State Rep. Arnold Mooney (R-Indian Springs) in Alabama’s upcoming U.S. Senate race. In a fundraising email sent out Tuesday morning, SCF made the endorsement announcement and asked members of the organization’s national mailing list to contribute to Mooney’s campaign. In a statement to Yellowhammer News after the […]

Alabama’s Dynetics was one of 11 companies selected by NASA last month to participate in the next phase of its lunar lander development program. According to Andy Crocker, director for space strategy and lunar program manager at Dynetics, NASA selected the Huntsville-based company to focus on the descent element of the Artemis Human Landing System […]

The Alabama Ethics Commission is scheduled to meet on Wednesday and deliver, as promised at its last meeting, answers to several questions presented to it by the Birmingham Airport Authority. As the governing body for the state’s largest and busiest airport, the Birmingham Airport Authority serves an important function in the state’s overall economic development […]

The mayor of a small city in Walker County is defending comments he made on Facebook regarding “homosexuals,” “transvestites” and “socialists.” WBRC reported that Carbon Hill Mayor Mark Chambers on Friday posted in all caps on his publicly accessible Facebook page, “We live in a society where homosexuals lecture us on morals, transvestites lecture us […]

7. Alabama native refuses to be in the same country as Trump The founder of Wikipedia and Alabama native Jimmy Wales apparently isn’t the biggest fan of President Donald Trump, and tweeted, “I am going to the airport. Leaving the UK today. I will be back when he leaves.” Wales finally acknowledged the trip has […]

DrunkAubie is back to talk about Rod Bramblett, the Voice of the Auburn Tigers, who tragically died way too soon, Auburn baseball, football and basketball recruiting. Also, the SEC lifted its ban on the sale of alcohol in stadiums, so that was discussed.

Opelika Power Services on Monday hosted the Yellowhammer State’s fifth annual Lineman Appreciation Day, sponsored by the Energy Institute of Alabama (EIA), recognizing the hardworking men and women tasked with providing electricity to the state’s residents every day, even in dangerous conditions and after severe weather strikes. In a statement to Yellowhammer News, Public Service […]

The Alabama Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Tuesday morning in former House Speaker Mike Hubbard’s appeal of his conviction on ethics charges. The prominent Republican was convicted in 2016 of improperly receiving consulting contracts and business investments from company executives.

Troy University football legend Larry Blakeney, an Alabama native, will be considered on the 2020 College Football Hall of Fame ballot. Blakeney was the Trojans’ head football coach from 1991-2014. He is a graduate of Auburn University, where he was a three-year letterman in football and two-year letterman in baseball. Born in Birmingham, Blakeney coached […]

Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA), one of many announced running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, told Planned Parenthood supporters at an event last week that the people in Alabama who passed the Human Life Protection Act “couldn’t care less” about the babies they claim to protect. “In this fight, we know we are on […]

Last month, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) visited Alabama where he held campaign rallies and town halls in Birmingham and Montgomery touting his Medicare for All plan. His staunch opposition to anything other than a complete overhaul of the U.S. health care system has often dominated political and health care conversations. Every American deserves access to […]

The Rocket City has really taken off recently, and now Huntsville is receiving the widespread recognition that the city merits. SmartAsset.com just released its rankings of the nation’s top cities for career opportunities, with Huntsville coming in at number four. This is an improvement of one spot for the north Alabama anchor, which was ranked […]

A cartoon rat was to marry a cartoon aardvark on May 13th on Alabama Public Television, but that didn’t happen and has set off a series of silly outrages that will continue until at least June 15. This silly decision by APTV has alerted people to the fact that “Arthur” is still on TV, made […]

A major drug bust in North Carolina stopped an alleged drug trafficker from reaching his ultimate destination: Alabama. WBTV reported that a traffic stop on I-77 in Iredell County, NC, on Friday evening eventually revealed approximately nine pounds of cocaine in the vehicle of Eyian Valenti Robotham.

It is fitting that last week, now-former special counsel Robert Mueller announced his resignation and return to private life and his shuttering the office of the special counsel. Just the day before his announcement, I filed a bill to get some real transparency from those who undertook this costly, wasteful and pointless investigation and to […]

For the fifth consecutive year, the student robotics team from the University of Alabama won the grand prize at NASA’s Robotics Mining Competition. UA made the announcement Monday in a statement, explaining that the 60-student Alabama Astrobotics team, mostly from the College of Engineering, won the Joe Kosmo Award for Excellence in NASA’s 2019 robotic mining […]

This is my 28th year in politics, and I have seen firsthand that with every election cycle, opposition research becomes a more valuable tool used in political campaigns. Many people had never heard of “Oppo” or were even aware that campaigns aggressively looked for information on their opponents until the Trump Dossier complied by Fusion […]