Every two years, the State Auditor’s office examines all 176 of Alabama’s agencies to determine if state property is being taken care of. Current Auditor Jim Zeigler has released the full list of Fiscal Year 2018 audit results to Yellowhammer News, including  32 entities that received a perfect audit. These high-achieving agencies are led by […]

With last week’s addition of Michael Schilleci as Chairman of the National Beer Wholesalers Association, Alabamians are dominating the leadership ranks of powerful national trade associations. Currently, Montgomery’s Eddie Stewart of Caddell Construction is chair of the Associated General Contractors (AGC) of America and Forrest McConnell of McConnell Honda is vice-chair of the National Automobile Dealers Association’s […]

The state of Alabama is getting $2 million from a nationwide settlement involving Uber. Attorney General Steve Marshall says the money is the state’s portion of a $148 million agreement with the ridesharing company.

Two Birmingham startups were named as winners in Thursday night’s Alabama Launchpad Startup Competition Finale held at LogiCore Corporation located in Huntsville’s Cummings Research Park. In the finale, six startups competed in one of two tracks – a concept stage for entrepreneurs launching businesses and a seed stage for entrepreneurs accelerating growth. Winning the concept […]

Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) participated in an Oval Office ceremony Friday in-which President Donald Trump signed an appropriations minibus for Fiscal Year 2019 covering Defense, Labor, Health and Human Services (HHS), education and related agencies. The funding covered in the package, which was made possible by Shelby’s leadership as the powerful chairman of the Senate […]

Congressman Mo Brooks (AL-5) questioned Edward McGinnis, the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy, about the “absolutely necessary” and “utterly unique” importance of nuclear power production in America during a House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Energy Subcommittee hearing last week. Brooks began his questioning by highlighting the economic […]

7. Roy Moore has found a new cause to keep him in the spotlight — The failed Senate candidate’s new cause is returning prayer to high school football games after Blount County and other Alabama school systems stopped allowing prayers over the PA system. — The Freedom From Religion Foundation responded to Moore, giving him exactly […]

Former Alabama Governor Robert Bentley was featured on Chris Stirewalt’s new Fox News Radio podcast, and the two discussed American populism and another former governor from the state, George Wallace. The podcast was chapter five of the series called “Every Man A King,” which highlights the major players in Stirewalt’s new book of the same […]

Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church is among 20 national finalists competing for a $150,000 Partners in Preservation grant. American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation, in collaboration with Main Street America, is focusing the annual Partners in Preservation campaign on sites that celebrate diversity and the fight for equality. Sixteenth Street Baptist Church […]

Radio talk show host Dale Jackson and Dr. Waymon Burke take you through this week’s biggest political stories, including: — Will Judge Brett Kavanaugh ever get an actual vote? — Was Senator Doug Jones ever going to consider voting “yes” on a Trump nominee? — Can Walt Maddox make people care about his candidacy?

SCOTTSBORO – It wasn’t that long ago that the staging area for the Jackson County, Ala. Republican Party could have been a phone booth. However, this last general election primary has shown the politics of Alabama’s northeastern-most county have done a complete 180-degree reversal. Earlier this year, 93 percent of the participants in the June […]

Baltimore, Maryland-based MTC Logistics announced plans to build a $58 million cold storage facility on property owned by the Alabama State Port Authority, creating between 50 and 70 jobs and providing a boost to the port’s container operations. Company officials said the 300,000-square-foot facility will be five stories tall and will contain almost 12 million […]

“When angry, count to 10 before you speak; if very angry, count to one hundred.” If only we followed the advice of the Founding Fathers. Thomas Jefferson, who expressed this sentiment, knew first-hand how politics can lead to indignation. Today, one glance at cable news or Twitter affirms that we too are accustomed to an […]

As a society, our children are perhaps the greatest, most precious responsibility given to us. They are vulnerable, innocent and wholly dependent upon the adults surrounding them for protection. While horrible and unthinkable, the unfortunate reality is that not everyone takes this responsibility seriously, and there are even those who would do children harm. The […]

Safety is the biggest concern for Alabama Power Company. Employee Russell Davidson works to ensure he and his crew stay safe so they can keep the lights on for customers. Davidson started with Alabama Power in January 2007, and has worked his way up to a plant control operator at Plant Gorgas in Walker County, […]

Toyota’s Alabama plant produced its first next-generation 4-cylinder engine after a $106 million investment to prepare the Huntsville facility for advanced production. The milestone occurred this week, exactly one year after the automaker announced the investment in Alabama to build next-gen engines using a new approach called Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA). “I could not […]

This is the first in a three-part series on Southern Research’s Change Campaign. When David Powell’s mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in September 2017, she was relieved. That’s because in January 2017, she had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. After years of watching her own mother suffer from Alzheimer’s, she welcomed cancer as a preferable […]

In 2001, Brenda Ladun felt a lump. She went to the doctor, who told her it was stage two breast cancer. Ladun’s first thought was, “I can’t have cancer. I have kids.” The next few years would prove strength is something she could summon when needed. “The cancer enhanced my faith and my inner strength,” […]

Alabama Commerce Secretary Greg Canfield is leading a team of state business leaders on a trade mission this week to Romania and Bulgaria, countries that offer new markets in southeastern Europe and a potential gateway to opportunities in other regions. The multi-sector trade and business development mission kicked off Monday in Bucharest, the Romanian cultural, industrial […]

Gary Palmer, unlike so many other members of Congress, has not become part of the problem in Washington, but has lived up to his reputation as someone who came to Washington with solutions. This week his campaign released a video outlining his main goals as the Congressman representing Alabama’s 6th District. Other focuses of Palmer’s […]

Recently, I led a group of local leaders in Calhoun County, including Alabama Senate President pro tempore, Del Marsh, to visit and tour the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) in Anniston. While the CDP has a huge local economic impact, it is so much more. Since 1998, the CDP has trained over a million first […]

With college football moving right along, Alabama’s favorite teams are ready to tackle week five matchups. Alabama State has a bye week, but all of the Yellowhammer State’s other teams play on Saturday. Alabama and Auburn take a break from their SEC schedule, JSU celebrates its homecoming game and Troy holds its Military Appreciation weekend. […]

During the Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries (WFF) Division’s media tour of Portland Landing, the newest Special Opportunity Area (SOA), a flood of memories rushed over me as we wound through the Alabama River bottomlands and nearby rolling hills last week. As the members of the media got their first look at this prime hunting […]

After Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) confirmed his intention to stick with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and vote “no” on Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, liberal activists from San Fransisco to New York came out of the woodworks in support of Jones, including porn-star Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti, former head […]