Hopefully, the last week and a half of the GOP primary race for governor will be more illuminating than the race up to this point. The candidates hoping to unseat the governor should be directing their energy to job creation and ways to improve the economy. The two front-runners have an argument for being job creators, […]

Last night, I couldn’t sleep. This is not an especially unusual situation for me. Sometimes I’ll sleep for an hour, wake up, and that’s it. Other times, I can’t get to sleep at all. Not that it occurs often, but when it does, my wide-awake-full-ness usually has something to do with a gathering storm of thoughts. On […]

A federal judge called “horrendously inadequate” the care of inmates in Alabama’s prison system, which has received national attention. Lawmakers have debated how to handle the overcrowded and understaffed prisons, including possibly privatizing the system. In advance of the June 5 primary election, Alabama Policy Institute and Yellowhammer News recently asked candidates for governor and […]

Ireland is preparing to vote, again, on the issue of abortion. The Irish government announced that the referendum vote, on the topic of the 8th Amendment to the Irish Constitution, will happen on May 25th. Article 40.3.3 of the Irish Constitution, commonly known as the 8th amendment, states, “The states acknowledges the right to life of the unborn […]

Wednesday on the “Rick & Bubba” radio show, Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill explained how he had to defend Alabama’s voter identification law to groups like the NAACP over the past year, and how he has been successful at it. Earlier this year, a federal judge dismissed the suit brought by Greater Birmingham Ministries, […]

A judge won’t lower the bail set for a former University of North Alabama football player charged with murder. The Times Daily reports that Lauderdale County Circuit Judge Gil Self denied the request Wednesday of Khadedryck Devonte Todd. Todd is charged with beating 21-year-old Anthony Coleman of Florence on April 2 in a convenience store […]

A northeast Alabama school district is closing a rural school instead of paying for repairs. Thursday is the last day for Paint Rock Valley High School in Jackson County, after board members voted 3-2 to close the K-12 school last week. The move was unexpected after Jackson County leaders kept open the 74-student school last […]

Officials in one of Alabama’s largest cities stand by their refusals to release recordings from police body cameras. WHNT-TV reports the city has once again refused a request to release a recording. The latest request came after a bystander’s video appeared to show a Huntsville police officer punching a suspect while trying to make an arrest. […]

This week, for the first time in months, a generic ballot poll showed Republicans beating Democrats in the midterm elections. According to Reuters, Republicans are now leading by six points. And while that poll is obviously an outlier, the movement of the generic ballot in the direction of Republicans isn’t: The average lead for Democrats […]

Baldwin County long has been Alabama’s fastest-growing county, so perhaps it should be no surprise that one of its towns is the state’s fast-growing municipality. According to population estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau, Loxley added 335 new residents from July 2016 to July 2017. The 16.7 percent growth rate over that 12-month […]

1. A conclusion that is obvious, but not being drawn: Jared Kushner is probably in the clear — Kushner had his temporary security clearance revoked months ago, leading to speculation that he was dirty. He just got that clearance approved. — If he was under any threat of being compromised this would not have happened, […]

Police are searching for a driver they say tried to run over a woman and her daughter in a fast food parking lot. Birmingham police tell news outlets an unnamed 40-year-old woman was hospitalized Wednesday with serious injuries after she and her 21-year-old daughter were struck at a McDonald’s. Witnesses say one of the victims […]

Those involved in auto crashes while not wearing seat belts are 40 times more likely to die than those who buckle up, according to an analysis of state crash records from the past five years. For the study, University of Alabama researchers at the Center for Advanced Public Safety examined crash records from 2013 through […]

On Wednesday, NASCAR announced the five inductees who will make up its 2019 Hall of Fame class. Among those is Hueytown native Davey Allison, the son of Bobby Allison, who is also a NASCAR Hall of Famer. Allison compiled 19 race wins and 14 pole positions in stock car racing premiere series before his death in a tragic […]

Edouard Julien hit a grand slam Wednesday as No. 7 seed Auburn defeated No. 2 seed Mississippi 9-3 in the Southeastern Conference Tournament. Auburn (39-19) remains in the winners’ bracket in the double-elimination portion of the tournament and faces No. 11 seed Texas A&M (38-19) on Thursday. Ole Miss (42-15) meets No. 3 seed Georgia […]

A federal survey reveals roughly 20 percent of Americans know or have known someone struggling with addiction to opioid painkillers. The annual report on the economic well being of U.S. households by the Federal Reserve System included questions regarding exposure to opioids, a first in the history of the survey. It found at least one in […]

A statement from police says 54-year-old Meta Lovely of Duncanville surrendered Wednesday. She is being held on $30,000 bond on a charge of having sex with a student less than 19 years old. Lovely worked as a substitute teacher at Bryant High School. Police say they were told about a possible improper relationship between a […]

As we get down to the lick log in the 2018 June Primary, there are few if any surprises in any of the major state races. Polling indicates that all of the contests are about where they were three or four months ago when the races began. There is a tremendous amount of apathy and indifference as […]

Alabama’s workforce won big earlier this year when Toyota-Mazda promised to create 4,000 jobs in the Huntsville area, though the number of tax dollars that state and local coffers will not see, due to abatements granted by authorities at both levels, is in the millions. Some candidates for governor see such tax breaks as a […]

As the calls to investigate the investigators continue to grow, America has clearly started to tire of non-stop news coverage and the politicking off of the narrative of the narrative that the Russians and Trump campaign colluded to steal the election from Hillary Clinton. Congressman Mike Rogers was asked on WVNN this morning if he […]

Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: REX TILLERSON ON HOW TO KEEP COUNTRY FROM GOING “WOBBLY” TOM LAMPRECHT: Harry, there’s a little town in Virginia which you’ve visited many times, Lexington, Virginia, the home of Washington and Lee College but also the home of the Virginia Military Institute. It was at that […]

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross this week presented the Alabama Department of Commerce with the President’s “E” Award for Export Service, the highest recognition an organization can receive for contributing to the expansion of U.S. exports. At a ceremony in the nation’s capital, Secretary Ross said the Alabama Department of Commerce has demonstrated a […]

Alabama is in danger of losing one of its seven congressional seats, and it’s your fault. That is according to a Wednesday editorial that appeared in two north Alabama newspapers, the Decatur Daily and Florence’s TimesDaily. The editorial board of the Daily and the TimesDaily reacted to a lawsuit filed by the state of Alabama […]

Jefferson County District Attorney Mike Anderton appeared on “The Wake-Up Call with Baylor and Hannah” Tuesday to discuss claims of systemic bias made against U.S. police officers, the upcoming Jefferson County District Attorney election, the Acton Bowen case, the Hoover bus driver DUI incident, and much more. Find hosts Baylor Cook and Hannah Hutson‘s daily podcast […]