For more than four decades, the Tennessee Valley Authority’s inactive Bellefonte Nuclear Power Plant has been a part of the Jackson County skyline. Situated in Hollywood, just to the northeast of Scottsboro off U.S. Highway 72, the plant’s cooling towers can be seen for miles away in all directions. Initially, construction began on the plant […]

    In days gone by, a massacre of students like the atrocity at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School would have brought us together. But like so many atrocities before it, this mass murder is tearing us apart. The perpetrator, the sick and evil 19-year-old who killed 17 innocents with a gun is said to […]

The 7 Things You Should Be Talking About Today 1. Broward County Sheriff under-fire and facing calls to resign — After initial reports of one deputy not entering the building during the shooting, there are now reports three other Broward County deputies stayed outside the building and did not render aid until Coral Springs police showed up. […]

  Earlier this month Yellowhammer News Editor J. Pepper Bryars spoke at the annual board retreat of the Alabama Policy Institute in Birmingham, discussing his thoughts with the think tank’s trustees and advisors, about how the state of conservatism was strong both in our home state and across the nation.  The speech covered various definitions […]

  According to a report from Politico’s Andrew Restuccia and Daniel Strauss, former Sen. Luther Strange is planning a return to Washington, D.C., where he had a short-lived tenure in the U.S. Senate, in addition to a very long lobbying career prior to coming back to Alabama in the early part of the last decade. Strange […]

  President Donald Trump told the CPAC conference last week in America we do not worship government, we worship God. Trump made this remark shortly before he talked about the death of the Rev. Billy Graham. “Above all else, we know that faith and family, not government and bureaucracy, are at the center of American life,” […]

  The Alabama State House of Representatives recently passed a “Stand Your Ground” bill for churches partly in response to the Florida school shooting. The bill will extend coverage of Alabama’s 2006 Stand Your Ground Law not only to houses of worship but also grounds on which church or other religious institution activities are held, […]

    Transgender activists, medical professionals and civilians should treat gender dysphoria with compassion and respect, but everyone experiences a bad outcome when encouraging surgical or hormonal treatment for transgender individuals, a public policy expert explained Wednesday. Transgender activists and treatment opponents agree there’s great pain for gender-confused folks, however, they disagree on the best practice for […]

  As the Alabama legislature considers reforming its civil asset forfeiture policy, state police are becoming more and more insistent that they keep the power. Alabama’s legislation would make two major changes to civil forfeiture: It would require police to criminally convict a property owner before forfeiting his property, and would prevent law enforcement from […]

Radio talk show host Dale Jackson and Dr. Waymon Burke take you through this week’s biggest political stories including: — Is it wise to allow teachers to carry firearms to protect schools from school shooters? — The budget passed the Alabama State Senate with no pay raise for state employees, what happened? — With 13 […]

    I happened onto a piece by Bill Kristol in The Weekly Standard, wherein he links to “a short, powerful piece in National Review” by Rick Brookhiser, who “concludes that ‘the conservative movement is no more. Its destroyers are Donald Trump and his admirers.'” I somewhat get the sentiment — or at least I […]

  (Opinion) An important front-page story at Al.com could easily become lost in the barrage of major national stories erupting over the past week. This story involves the all-important issue of academic freedom for an Advanced Placement American Government (AP) teacher in Spanish Fort, Alabama. According to the article by John Sharp, the teacher is […]

  Yellowhammer News editor J. Pepper Bryars argued against removing statues and monuments memorializing “regular” Confederate soldiers during a discussion about historical symbolism held this week at the Randolph School in Huntsville. “There’s a difference between honoring the politicians and generals who led our state into the Civil War and remembering the young men who […]

  MONTGOMERY — The Alabama Republican Party voted to “indefinitely postpone” consideration of a resolution that would have censured Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Tuscaloosa) for not supporting former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore in the 2017 U.S. Senate special election. Strong attendance at the 2018 ALGOP Winter Meeting ????#ALPolitics #GOP pic.twitter.com/EUpLA8L0n3 — ALGOP (@ALGOP) […]

CHICKASAW — After meeting with constituents at his 106th town hall this week, U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope) spoke with Yellowhammer News about a number of issues facing Congress, beginning with health care. “I don’t think we’re done with health care,” Byrne said. “We repealed the individual mandate and we passed tax reform, but I […]

  A bill to help healthcare professionals better identify and help veterans suffering from drug addiction passed both houses of the Alabama Legislature this week. What the bill seeks to fix: — Regular patients are subject to having their prescription records reviewed by doctors and pharmacists to ensure drugs aren’t being counter-productive, dangerous, or abused. […]

    According to the indictment by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Russian trolls, operating out of St. Petersburg, took American identities on social media and became players in our 2016 election. On divisive racial and religious issues, the trolls took both sides. In the presidential election, the trolls favored Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein and Donald […]

  MONTGOMERY — Friday night after a packed room watched Fox News Channel’s Pete Hegseth rally attendees at the Alabama Republican Party’s Winter Dinner, party chairman Terry Lathan said there was cause for optimism for the party. A lot of new faces were in attendance at the annual gathering, which was likely a product of many […]

    Did this week fly by to anyone else? Enjoy the weekend and check out what happened this week in Montgomery in Taylor’s Top 4! If you want to receive daily news hits from across the state and nation straight to your inbox each morning, click here to subscribe to API’s Daily Clips. 1. General […]

  MONTGOMERY — Friday night at the Alabama Republican Party’s Winter Dinner, Fox News Channel’s Pete Hegseth, a co-host on “Fox & Friends Weekend,” offered up a serving of conservative red meat to the at least 600 in attendance at the Renaissance Hotel and Spa. He hit a number of topics dealing with obstacles conservatives have […]

  With confirmation of the first case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in west-central Mississippi, the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR) and the Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries have quickly responded to the news. ADCNR’s Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries (WFF) Division added Mississippi to the list of states where the importation […]

    Amanda Head joins the show once again for the Final 30! We talk about the tragedy in Florida, the CPAC which she is attending, and even touched on Auburn basketball. The Final 30 is brought to you by McCutcheon Engineering: Professional Engineering Consulting Services Does your project require the highest level of electrical […]

(Opinion) I don’t want to ever talk about “gun control” again. But I want to talk about school safety every minute of every day until it is a reality in our country. As long as the school safety debate is solely a debate about gun control, we will never make any progress. Gun control is […]

    (Opinion) The federal government and media appear to be paralyzed by the fallout of school shootings, except a couple of silly attempts to ban guns. The American people are demanding a response to the latest school shooting and the vapid “#DoSomething” is a popular hashtag. But looking to Washington D.C. is probably the […]