Let’s go ahead and put this out there: A Republican can’t win head-to-head against a Democrat in Alabama’s seventh congressional district. Since becoming a majority-minority district in 1992 to comply with Congress’ 1982 adjustment of the Voting Rights Act, it has been solidly Democrat. The district even survived the South’s transition from conservative Democrat to […]

President Donald Trump is tweeting his endorsement of a Florida congressman during his trip to Europe, writing that Rep. Matt Gaetz “is one of the finest and most talented people in Congress.” Trump is backing the Republican lawmaker on Twitter at the start of his second day in Britain.

Steve Marshall remains unwavering in fighting violent crime and safeguarding the people of Alabama. Last year, Marshall launched the “Initiative on Violent Crime” from the Attorney General’s Office, which focuses on reclaiming, restoring and reviving Alabama communities. “I am determined to reclaim our neighborhoods from the scourge of violent crime, restore the rule of law, […]

Jim Cavale was sitting in the audience at a tech conference in Birmingham, Ala., in 2016. At the time, he was president of a successful fitness company in the city that had grown into a national brand, but his mind was beginning to think about new challenges. That inaugural Sloss Tech conference, in 2016, was […]

Troy King’s attempts to keep opponent Attorney General Steve Marshall from spending money that he got from a federal political action committee ran aground on Thursday when Montgomery Circuit Court Judge James Anderson denied King’s request for a temporary restraining order. King argued that contributions given to Marshall by the Republican Attorneys General Association violate […]

In the wake of Billy Canary’s abrupt exit as president and CEO of the Business Council of Alabama, it is clear that the business community will chart its path forward by making significant changes. For starters, many of Alabama’s largest employers are no longer members of BCA.  Several factors will contribute to whether those large employers reconsider […]

A recent study conducted by Bankrate.com concluded that the Yellowhammer State is the 24th best state for retirees. The study looked at categories of cost of living, taxes, healthcare quality, weather, crime, cultural vitality, and well-being, and weighted their value based upon a survey Bankrate conducted last year. Alabama scored 6th and 7th in the […]

Millions of Americans engage in do it yourself (DIY) home improvements. Each summer I choose a project, and about half of the time I actually do it. This year’s project is painting our house’s exterior windows and trim. And yet DIY produces professional angst for me as an economist, because core economic principles imply that […]

Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript:         ALAN DERSHOWITZ OSTRACIZED FOR NOT CONDEMNING TRUMP TOM LAMPRECHT:  Harry, I want to take you to an article out of Fox News. We referenced this in a program we did a few days ago. Harvard law professor emeritus, Alan Dershowitz, recently came out in an […]

Attorney General Steve Marshall’s campaign will “seek expenses and attorneys’ fees for any and all efforts necessary to have the matter dismissed” unless Troy King’s legal team dismisses a lawsuit it filed against Marshall by a 2:00 pm hearing scheduled for today. That’s according to a letter obtained by Yellowhammer News in which Marshall’s attorney, […]

Latino voters and civil-rights groups have asked to join a lawsuit to defend the practice of including people in the country illegally in U.S. Census counts. The counts are used to configure congressional seats.

http://media.blubrry.com/yellowhammer/content.blubrry.com/yellowhammer/7_10_18_Steve_Marshall.mp3 Attorney General Steve Marshall joined The Ford Faction for a lengthy interview to talk about what the past month has been like for him. AG Marshall went through a traumatizing event the past couple of weeks where his wife, Bridgette, took her own life. Marshall talked about how Alabama support and love has been […]

Steve Marshall remains unwavering in fighting violent crime and safeguarding the people of Alabama. Last year, Marshall launched the “Initiative on Violent Crime” from the Attorney General’s Office, which focuses on reclaiming, restoring and reviving Alabama communities. “I am determined to reclaim our neighborhoods from the scourge of violent crime, restore the rule of law, […]

More National Park Service rangers will range on the Natchez Trace Parkway in unmarked vehicles. The Park Service says it’s buying more unmarked vehicles for traffic enforcement on the scenic and historic route through Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee.

An Alabama man has pleaded guilty to trying to meet underage girls for sex. The U.S. attorney’s office in Atlanta said in a news release Wednesday that 40-year-old Christopher Bradley Braden of Jasper pleaded guilty to one count of enticing a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity, which carries mandatory 10 year sentence.

1. Trump declares victory; American media declares they still don’t understand what is happening — President Donald Trump left the NATO summit with a press conference declaring that he is more committed to NATO than ever and other countries will start meeting their obligations. He’s right when he talks about how years of asking nicely […]

Authorities say preliminary autopsy results show that a burglary suspect died from a ruptured femoral artery after being apprehended by a police dog in Montgomery, Alabama. Capt. Joe Herman of the State Bureau of Investigation announced the preliminary finding Wednesday.

http://media.blubrry.com/yellowhammer/content.blubrry.com/yellowhammer/7_11_18_Kevin_Mclendon.mp3 Kevin McLendon joined The Ford Faction to talk about Sloss Tech and what it has to offer.  McLendon talked about the upcoming event and the speakers that will be present and how big it is for a city like Birmingham to be hosting something like this.  In the interview, Kevin went into depth about the […]

The federal government has reopened its investigation into the slaying of Emmett Till, the black teenager whose brutal killing in Mississippi shocked the world and helped inspire the civil rights movement more than 60 years ago. The Justice Department told Congress in a report in March it is reinvestigating Till’s slaying in Money, Mississippi, in […]

The race for Alabama’s attorney general got hotter Wednesday when Troy King, who faces Attorney General Steve Marshall in a primary runoff next Tuesday, filed suit against Marshall’s campaign seeking a temporary restraining order against Marshall’s use of campaign contributions given to him by the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA). King called those contributions illegal in an […]

If you have turned on your television recently, you have probably heard about the ongoing immigration debate in our country. Here in Congress, it is an issue that has drawn much of our attention as well. Since being elected to Congress, I have held two top principles when it comes to the immigration debate. First, […]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old New York Democrat, seems to have taken the reigns of the Democrat party. This could get pretty ugly unless we do something about it now. For those of you who do not already know, Ocasio-Cortez unseated Democratic Caucus Chair Joseph Crowley in the Democratic primary for New York’s 14th congressional district. […]

2018 has already been an amazingly embarrassing election cycle for desperate politicians in Alabama. We have already seen Troy King, who was/is a wholly owned subsidiary of gambling interests, accuse AG Steve Marshall of being a recipient of gambling dollars for accepting money from the Republican Attorney General Association, when King was a member of […]

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey says the state will no longer give jail food funds to “sheriffs personally” in the wake of criticism that some sheriffs profited large sums by skimping on meals. In a Tuesday memo to the state comptroller, Ivey rescinded the state’s 2008 policy of “paying prisoner food service allowances directly to sheriffs […]