The federal tax cuts passed last year created 2,941 jobs in Alabama this year and will create 16,633 over a decade, but that employment boost will lag behind most of the rest of the country, according to a new study. A map prepared this month by the Washington-based Tax Foundation, breaks down the impact of […]

Monday afternoon, radio host Rick Burgess of the Birmingham-based and nationally syndicated Rick & Bubba Show announced he suffered a gallbladder attack during his morning show. Burgess added that he will be undergoing surgery to remove his gallbladder Tuesday morning. He hopes to return to work Thursday following the procedure. Sadly another gallbladder attack during the […]

A new analysis by the personal finance publication WalletHub ranks Alabama’s health care system as the nation’s sixth worst. To make their determinations, researchers examined three categories: cost, access and outcomes, looking at things like average monthly insurance premium, share of high out-of-pocket medical spending, hospital beds per capita, average emergency-room wait time, infant mortality […]

Alabama’s Warrior Met Coal (NYSE: HCC) has partnered with Bevill State Community College to offer a new four-week miner training class for prospective employees. The program graduated its first 15-member class Thursday with each of the mining trainees headed to full-time employment beginning Friday with the Brookwood-based company. According to Alabama Coal Association President Patrick […]

Last week, TIME magazine’s “The South Issue” hit newsstands with the goal of explaining this part of South’s “complicated story” to a readership that apparently views this region of the country as alien, strange and unfamiliar. The issue appears to be a tribute to Stacey Abrams, Georgia’s Democratic gubernatorial nominee, who is featured on the […]

School is starting, or has started, all over the state of Alabama and our children’s schools are no safer. During the summer, and the GOP primary, the governor of Alabama released a plan to make schools safer called the “Alabama Sentry Program.” At best, this plan could be called a step in the right direction. […]

Governor Kay Ivey announced a Community Development Block Grant Monday to provide the infrastructure necessary for Tiffin Motor Homes’ new RV Center in Winfield, creating 65 jobs. The announcement of the $300,000 grant was made in a news release Monday by the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs. “Bringing new jobs to Alabama is at the […]

A $75 million project is underway to transform Continental Motors’ operations in south Alabama. AL.com reports that Continental officials last year announced that its “Blue Marlin Project” would involve building a new state-of-the-art manufacturing plant at Brookley.

Following the May passage of a bill rolling back parts of the Obama-era Dodd-Frank banking regulations, Congress has a chance to install more bipartisan financial reforms, and Alabama will have a say. The Republican-sponsored Consumer Financial Choice and Capital Markets Protection Act of 2017 currently awaits consideration by the Senate Banking Committee, on which both […]

Sports betting is legal in just a handful of states, but as of last week, Alabama’s eastern neighbor has joined that select club. Mississippi’s first lawful sports wagers took place Wednesday at the Beau Rivage Casino in Biloxi. State Rep. Paul Lee (R-Dothan) is predicting that the state legislature will consider a bill during the 2019 legislative session […]

Alabama has been stuck in what seems like one endless election cycle since 2015. And it’s not going to end anytime soon. As signaled by the start of Governor Ivey’s first television buy ahead of the November 6 General Election, the summer political lull –  a seeming oasis of respite from wall-to-wall political advertising that […]

An Alabama private school that employed two teachers who pleaded guilty to sexual relationships with students is being sued by one of the ex-students. The Tuscaloosa News reports a lawsuit filed Friday against Pickens Academy says the school was aware of the relationship between the then-teenage plaintiff and teacher Charli Parker, and did nothing to […]

Fiber infrastructure is a key tool in attracting new and expanding existing businesses across Alabama, and local providers are actively working to install innovative broadband technologies in both the rural and urban areas of the state. Last week, AT&T Alabama announced that it has invested more than $1.2 billion in 2015, 2016, and 2017 in its […]

Alabama is accepting comments on its proposal to put a work requirement on 74,000 Medicaid recipients. The Alabama Medicaid Agency opened a new public comment period on the proposal.

7. The people demanding you love the media and honor them as heroes don’t really care what anyone else thinks about their performance — After several days of complaints about Trump supporters and the president himself “attacking the free press,” the media paused to demand that a non-profit museum stop selling “fake news” t-shirts. — […]

Authorities say two men were killed after a small plane crashed shortly after takeoff near the Alabama coast. WALA-TV reports the plane’s pilot and lone passenger died Saturday when the aircraft crashed in a field and caught fire near Foley, roughly 30 miles (48 kilometers)southeast of Mobile.

The Alabama Department of Public Health has identified an outbreak of whooping cough in Shelby and Jefferson counties. Health officials said Friday that nine children testified positive for pertussis, also known as whooping cough. Another 22 people have developed symptoms.

More than 3,500 jobs have been recruited to Jefferson County in the past 12 months and officials expect that number to increase by year’s end. “I expect another 200-job announcement soon and we’re a finalist in another more-than-a-1,000-job project that could be announced later this year,” said Jefferson County Commissioner David Carrington, chair of the […]

With Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox still drumming up the liberal media’s faux outrage about debates, Governor Kay Ivey launched her first television ad ahead of the November 6 general election. The ad, which is now running statewide, seeks to highlight her success in preparing students for the jobs of tomorrow. “As a former teacher, I know […]

Denorrise “Deno” Posey may be one of the few comedians in Birmingham whose day job pays as much as, if not more than, his side hustle of making people laugh. Posey is a Regions Bank executive by day and comedian by night. And he’s good at both. “It’s fun, because during the day I get […]

Radio talk show host Dale Jackson and Dr. Waymon Burke take you through this week’s biggest political stories, including: — Can recent polling give Democrats any hope? — Democrat candidate for governor Walt Maddox’s position on the Second Amendment is contradictory and deceptive? — Is there anyone Trump won’t pick a fight with?

Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin attended Netroots Nation in New Orleans over the weekend and met up with socialist Democrat candidate for Congress Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. This gathering of progressives, sponsored by the likes of Planned Parenthood, MoveOn, NARAL Pro-Choice America, the Southern Poverty Law Center and Facebook, has been held annually for more than a decade. […]

The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR) invites recreational shooters to take aim at select public shooting ranges during Alabama’s Free Range Days on August 11, 18, and 25. During these events, license and shooting range permit requirements will be waived at the Barbour, Cahaba, Delta, Etowah, and Swan Creek public shooting ranges […]

As Tyler Findlater sat in the Shelby Center for Engineering Technology at Auburn University, he felt the classroom enclose him before blacking out. When he came to his senses moments later, something felt off – the left side of his body wasn’t working. Findlater didn’t know then, but doctors told the 19-year-old hours later he […]