The 7 Things You Should Be Talking About Today 1. Free-wheeling President Donald Trump is back at rally for Pennsylvania candidate — The president tried to rally voters to support state Rep. Rick Saccone in a district Trump beat Hillary Clinton by 20 percentage points in 2016, he also unveiled his new campaign — “Keep America Great.” […]

President Donald Trump’s chief of staff killed EPA chief Scott Pruitt’s idea to publicly debate the merits and demerits of man-made global warming, according to a recent report from The New York Times. John Kelly, a retired four-star Marine Corps general, put a screeching halt to Pruitt’s goal to craft a read team and blue team […]

A north Alabama man is going to prison for growing marijuana in his backyard. A judge this week sentenced 40-year-old Robert Michael Musick of Athens to three years in prison and two years of probation for drug trafficking. The Athens News Courier reports Musick was arrested in 2015 after police found marijuana plants in the […]

The Alabama Senate moved one step closer to requiring police officers to get a criminal conviction before taking a citizen’s property, but states that have already implemented such limits have run into loophole: the federal government. Alabama lawmakers passed their ban through a state Senate committee last week under the impression they had the authority […]

As expected, the focus of the first Alabama Conservation Advisory Board meeting of the year was the increased awareness and efforts to keep chronic wasting disease (CWD) out of Alabama. CWD, a disease that affects members of the cervid family of animals (deer, elk, moose, caribou, etc.), was recently confirmed in west-central Mississippi. Previously, the […]

Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus wrote in a recent column that she would have killed her unborn child if a test determined it had Down syndrome and that, therefore, it was “a child whose intellectual capacity will be impaired, whose life choices will be limited, whose health may be compromised.” Marcus wrote: “… I was old […]

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Radio talk show host Dale Jackson and Dr. Waymon Burke take you through this week’s biggest political stories including: — Are Alabama legislators going to address school safety issues or kick it down the road? — Is the White House chaos ever going to stop? — Did Alabama Legislature get closer to fixing our state’s […]

If liberals would quit acting so crazy, maybe they would have a chance of making significant gains in Congress in the upcoming midterm elections and achieve their goal of eroding support for President Donald Trump. But it’s not gonna happen. Liberals’ extremism and outrageousness and conservatives’ failure to stop them created the conditions leading to […]

In an interview published on Friday with The Baldwin Times’ Cliff McCollum, Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope) validated speculation that he is considering a 2020 run for the U.S. Senate. “I’m actively looking at it,” Byrne said to the Times. “I’ve got a lot of things I’ve got to do in addition to that. We don’t take […]

Out with the old, in with the … news feed! Our website has undergone a complete redesign to better provide our readers with the information they want and need, including innovations like: — The Wire, which will feature excerpts and links to relevant news from around the internet. — A scrolling, news feed-based design so […]

From Lincoln to William McKinley to Theodore Roosevelt, and from Warren Harding through Calvin Coolidge, the Republican Party erected the most awesome manufacturing machine the world had ever seen. And, as the party of high tariffs through those seven decades, the GOP was rewarded by becoming America’s Party. Thirteen Republican presidents served from 1860 to […]

The Alabama Policy Institute (API) and the Manuel H. Johnson Center for Political Economy are pleased to announce the release of a new policy report entitled “The Costs of Occupational Licensing in Alabama.” On Tuesday, API and the Johnson Center debuted the report’s findings to an audience of lawmakers, academics, and economists.

The House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill on Thursday to protect children from cyberbullying in honor of a 10-year-old boy who committed suicide last year. Fifth grader Jamari Terrell Williams took his own life after he was bullied online last October. Rep. John Knight, a Democrat from Montgomery, sponsored the bill to add cyberbullying and harassment […]

Metal detectors at an Alabama high school were not in use the day a 17-year-old student was killed in a shooting on campus, the district’s superintendent said Thursday. Birmingham City Schools Superintendent Lisa Herring said the school system is reviewing security measures and protocols that were in place Wednesday, when Courtlin Arrington was fatally shot in a […]

    Ronnie Rice of the Shunnarah Law Firm and The “Shark of The Week” stopped by to talk about his upbringing, what he’s got planned, and his vision he spreads.  BJ, or known as “The Suit”, calls in to talk with Ronnie and the guys about what else has been going on.   http://media.blubrry.com/yellowhammer/content.blubrry.com/yellowhammer/Ronnie_Rice_digs_up_humble_beginnings.mp3   […]

Augusta Dowd disproves the conventional wisdom that taking time off to raise children spells career death in high-powered fields like the law. Dowd, the president of the Alabama State Bar, did just that. Dowd, honored as a Yellowhammer 2018 Woman of Impact, began practicing law at the Birmingham firm of Lange, Simpson, Robinson & Somerville […]

A train transporting sewage from New York and New Jersey has prompted complaints of a rotten stench and fly infestations in Alabama with Birmingham city officials saying they’re working with authorities to clear the air. The stench is nearly unbearable, Birmingham City Councilman John Hilliard said this week at a city council meeting. Numerous train […]

    Birmingham closed one of its largest schools for a thorough safety sweep Thursday after metal detectors and other security measures failed to keep students from handling a gun in a classroom where one 17-year-old was fatally shot and another wounded in an apparent accident. Birmingham Interim Police Chief Orlando Wilson said investigators are […]

Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope) introduced the ‘‘Protecting Our Children’s Future Act of 2018” on Thursday, a bill that would significantly alter how Congress passes budgets and appropriates money.The details: — The bill is an attempt to enforce a strict budget process after a year riddled with continuing budget resolutions. — “Everyone knows the Congressional budgeting […]

Between late 2010 and the end of 2014, the state of Alabama did not hire a single state trooper. Despite this freeze, we still had over 400 state troopers. Now we have less than 300. That leaves us over 700 men and women short of the number that we need (1000) according to the Center […]

    It begins. Will Ainsworth became the first candidate for lieutenant governor to go up on the air after launching a statewide radio campaign Thursday. The conservative state representative from Guntersville is airing spots on nearly 30 affiliate stations in the Yellowhammer Radio News Network, penetrating every major media market and reaching more than […]

Another school shooting leads to another round of worthless responses. We hear how this shouldn’t happen in schools, it does. We hear how teachers shouldn’t have to worry about this, they do. The governor’s statement on this issue exemplifies how absolutely ridiculous this situation is: “I’m saddened to learn of the death of the Huffman student. […]

    Three people have been charged with capital murder in the shooting death of an Alabama toddler. Huntsville Police Lt. Michael Johnson says in a news release that 26-year-olds Martin Arrendondo Evense, Brittany Nicole Kingston and Dominique Marshawn Russell were arrested Thursday morning. AL.com reports 3-year-old Olivia Robinson was killed when the home she was sleeping in […]