By: Garth Thorpe, workforce development manager, The Onin Group The skills needed for today’s modern workplace are shifting, and leaders are working diligently to prepare the next generation of workers. However, there is a growing skills mismatch looming across our country – evidence that the “you must go to college and be successful” narrative, which […]

Ford Brown of “The Ford Faction” breaks down the topics of the day, September 17. The show’s “Final Thoughts” segment touches on: – Brett Kavanaugh allegations – National motto “In God, We Trust” to be displayed in Cullman County Schools – Launchpad Alabama to help Alabama entrepreneurs – Industry coming back to the USA – […]

Congressman Bradley Byrne (R-AL) announced on Monday his bill to provide school officials with better information regarding students concerning school safety. The Make Schools Safer Act ensures that the Director of the Institute of Education Sciences includes studies and resources surrounding school safety and mental health in the What Works Clearinghouse, which educators, counselors and […]

When Doug Jones beat Roy Moore to become Alabama’s junior Senator for a few years, a message was sent to politicos all over the country: Any allegation, from any time period, will be treated as absolute fact. Discrepancies won’t matter. Plotholes won’t matter. Denials won’t matter. The words “credible allegation” is bantered about as if there […]

In an appearance Monday on Birmingham’s Talk 99.5 “Matt & Aunie Show,” Democratic gubernatorial nominee Walt Maddox fielded questions from co-host Matt Murphy about the merits of expanding Medicaid in Alabama, a favorite policy position of many of the state’s Democratic elected officials. “I think Medicaid is working in Alabama,” he said. “It serves mostly […]

Today is Constitution Day. On this day in 1787, our Founding Fathers gathered in Philadelphia to sign the Constitution. They had been meeting together throughout the hot summer to debate what form of government would best protect our hard-won freedoms and give our young nation the best chance to endure. Little did they know, as they signed the […]

Alabama’s Supreme Court on Friday voted 5-4 to overturn the death sentence of a Birmingham man convicted in a 2009 robbery and shooting, instead directing a Jefferson County judge to sentence Anthony Lane to life without possibility of parole. The ruling came after the U.S. Supreme Court had ordered Alabama’s courts to reconsider the death […]

University of South Alabama trustees have voted to move forward with construction of a $72 million on-campus football stadium for the 2020 season. President Tony Waldrop authorized the bidding process to start the second phase work on the stadium, AL.com reported.

Per the Associated Press, a federal judge last week extended the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Census Bureau’s deadline to respond to Alabama’s lawsuit challenging their practice of counting illegal immigrants until November 13. Lawyers representing the federal government claimed they needed additional time to finish “evaluating the arguments that the government will make […]

The Economic Development Partnership of Alabama (EDPA) last week announced that six early-stage companies have advanced to the Alabama Launchpad Startup Competition Finale, which will take place in Huntsville on September 27. Startups are competing in one of two tracks – “concept stage,” which is for entrepreneurs launching businesses, and “seed stage,” which is comprised […]

The four girls killed when a bomb placed by Ku Klux Klan members ripped through a Birmingham church in 1963 were remembered in a Saturday memorial service on the 55th anniversary of the deadly attack. Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley and Carole Robertson were killed in the Sept. 15, 1963 bombing of Birmingham’s […]

All of Cullman County’s schools will display “In God We Trust,” the national motto, after a unanimous vote by the local school board on Thursday. This came after the state legislature this March voted to allow the motto’s use in Alabama schools, courthouses and other public property. Cullman County becomes the second county after Blount County, which […]

After a shooting in Tuscaloosa injured one University of Alabama student and shook residents around town on Sunday, police investigators discovered that the shooter is “developmentally challenged” and that his caretaker bears a large portion of the blame. Per ABC 33/40, the 28-year-old shooter fired several rounds into Another Broken Egg Cafe, a popular restaurant […]

Per a report by NBC 13, students at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) helped take down notorious Russian cybercriminal Peter Levashov. Levashov, who pleaded guilty in federal court last week, was caught running a network of computers infected with malicious software. Investigators say through those infected computers, the Russian was able to steal […]

7. As the death toll with Hurricane Florence continues to rise, media are still fixated on President Donald Trump’s insistence that the numbers in Puerto Rico were inflated for politics — As with any severe weather event that hits, the death toll from Hurricane Florence will continue to go up as the event and recovery […]

Starting this coming fiscal year, paid congressional internships will be widely available for the first time in decades due to a funding package passed last week under the leadership of Senate Committee on Appropriations Chairman Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL). The legislative package, which also strongly funded Veterans Affairs, military construction, nuclear security and energy and water […]

Senator Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) on Sunday afternoon called for Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to be postponed, calling for a “pause button” to be pushed once again, after the Washington Post published an allegation of sexual assault by then-high school student Kavanaugh. Jones has previously demanded that Jones’ confirmation process be put […]

Every August, Congress takes a District Work Period so members have extra time to spend across their congressional district. Although I live in Weaver full-time and am home when I am not in Washington for votes, it is always wonderful to have some uninterrupted time in East Alabama. During my time in August, I got […]

Fresh off of the historic launch of an Alabama-built rocket in August, NASA once again counted on Alabama craftsmanship to send its latest earth-studying satellite into space. NASA successfully launched its Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 from Vandenburg Air Force Base in California on Saturday morning. The satellite will have the capability of measuring […]

On Sunday, Senator Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) did an interview with CNN in which he discussed an allegation of sexual assault by then high-school student Brett Kavanaugh, who is now President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court. In the interview, Jones said that the allegation needed to be “tested in the light of day,” meaning […]

Radio talk show host Dale Jackson and Dr. Waymon Burke take you through this week’s biggest political stories, including: — Why are Alabama Democrats embracing liberal big government ideas on health care? — Did Congressional candidate Mallory Hagan make a mistake when she said she was ashamed of Alabama’s culture? — Will Democrats get away […]

Frank Maione breathed a sigh of relief this month when Hyundai Motor Co. started delivering the Alabama-built, redesigned Santa Fe crossover utility vehicle to his Nevada showroom. A streak of annual Hyundai U.S. sales gains that began in the depths of the 2009 recession came to an abrupt end last year. Deliveries slumped to the […]

Alabama Sawyer, Birmingham The Makers: Cliff and Leigh Spencer Hundreds of downed Birmingham trees that were bound for area landfills as trash are now living out lives in homes and office buildings as valued treasures. Alabama Sawyer is the company behind that transformation.

By: Garth Thorpe, workforce development manager, The Onin Group The skills needed for today’s modern workplace are shifting, and leaders are working diligently to prepare the next generation of workers. However, there is a growing skills mismatch looming across our country – evidence that the “you must go to college and be successful” narrative, which […]