Executives from global auto supplier BOCAR Group said Tuesday that construction on a new $115 million manufacturing facility in Alabama will begin in spring 2018, with production launching at the site two years later. The 350,000-square-foot plant, located on Bibb Garrett Road just off Interstate 65 in the Limestone County portion of Huntsville, will bring […]

    A criminal justice system that operates in the dark is arbitrary, unjust and criminal. In Oklahoma this year, a Kafkaesque set of sealed motions, secret orders and closed-door hearings completely shut out a criminal defendant, his public defenders and the public. A trial judge served as handmaiden for the prosecutors, even failing to […]

  If you commute to work in Alabama, chances are you are in a car. No state in the country has a smaller share of commuters using public transportation. According to estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau, just .4 percent of the state’s workers 16 and older use public transportation, tied with Mississippi […]

  Chris Matthews appeared on MSNBC this week and made the absurd statement that Alabama’s “crazy” and “mythical” beliefs about Israel are what caused President Donald Trump to announce he’s moving our embassy from Tel Aviv to that nation’s eternal capital – Jerusalem. “Don’t think this isn’t related to Alabama next week. It is related,” […]

    Highlands Bar & Grill in Birmingham has been voted among the 100 Best Restaurants in America for 2017, a list published by the popular dining forum OpenTable. What makes Highlands special: The restaurant has many unique dishes, but perhaps its most distinguishing feature is its oyster bar, which serves mollusks sourced from the […]

    The head of the Birmingham Business Alliance said the metro area is coming off a very successful year for economic development, but the prospects for even more growth in 2018 are “at an all-time high.” BBA CEO Brian Hilson said at the organization’s annual Chairman’s Meeting Tuesday that economic development in the seven-county […]

  What has brown eyes and long dark hair, wears a vest, pants when he runs and can smell a crime scene from a mile away? Beni – your local neighborhood police K9.  Just a little over two months ago, Yellowhammer News reported that Beni helped apprehend a drug bust suspect in Heflin, Alabama. Once […]

          Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: TOM LAMPRECHT:  Harry, I want to take you back to a story that we’ve covered several times on this program, but it’s finally come to fruition in the sense that the Masterpiece Cake Shop case has gone to the Supreme Court. […]

    What started as an unconventional way to teach math and reading to special-education students has put them in the restaurant business. You’ll find them cooking using multiple-step recipies, taking orders, working the cash register, taking inventory, and ordering food and supplies at the Beautiful Rainbow Cafe, serving lunch and afternoon coffee from the […]

Today Wes Thompson joins The Ford Faction, we comb through Facebook trying to use AI’s to track depressed people, a “dancing” robot, and the scanner app that will make you through your printer away! http://media.blubrry.com/yellowhammer/content.blubrry.com/yellowhammer/Tep_io_s_Wes_Thompson_makes_his_weekly_visit_on_Tech_Tuesday_to_give_The_Ford_Faction_some_good_Facebook_news_.mp3   Click here to listen in a new window. Subscribe to the Yellowhammer Radio Presents The Ford Faction podcast on […]

The corporate income tax today is like a con game, one riddled with exemptions for privileged firms. Reform is long overdue.

    Don’t want to vote for Roy Moore because of the allegations? Cannot support Doug Jones because he’s an abortion extremist? Think a write-in candidate will only help elect a Democrat? Conservatives in Alabama have a viable fourth option – voting a straight ticket. Voters will find a section for straight party voting at […]

Even in an age when security cameras catch us and DNA samples condemn us, the Weinstein – Franken – Conyers – Lauer – (etc. and so on) roll out of #pervnado allegations, denials, half-truths and firings should remind us we’re a society still dependent upon an old-fashioned concept: our word.  We depend upon accusers to tell […]

  Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota called reports claiming he will announce his retirement Thursday inaccurate and asked that outlets reporting the inaccuracies to correct their stories. “Not accurate, @MPR @Stowydad. No final decision has been made and the Senator is still talking with his family. Please update your story,” Franken tweeted Wednesday evening. Minnesota-based […]

    The news surrounding the Alabama corrections system seems to be one negative story after another with much of the focus on the need for reform and consolidation in the system as well as higher quality of service and better outcomes.   Much of this is true and is a result of inadequate funding, […]

    It’s the month when we swipe, click and fork over cash with abandon — putting us at risk for shopping scams. A recent survey suggests we should keep our shopping guards up, even if we think we’re already aware of the risks. A DomainTools survey of 1,000 U.S. consumers found that two in […]

Claims that the Republican tax reform efforts would maim middle-class taxpayers are false. Without a doubt, many people, particularly graduate students and those with exceptionally high medical expenses, have legitimate concerns about how the Republicans’ tax reform efforts would affect them. Taxing tuition waivers and canceling the medical expense deduction, as the House bill does, […]

This is a direct lesson to the evangelical church in America – any time the church wants to be a player in the culture, it will be played by the culture.

    A billboard in front of Living Way Ministries in Opelika is making news for its rather odd comparison. “They falsely accused Jesus,” the sign read. “Vote Roy Moore.” Several members of the congregation have keys to the sign, church officials told WHNT News 19. After it was left up for an unknown length […]

      My hometown paper drives me crazy.   I read The New York Times because it often has good coverage. The newspaper pays to send reporters to dangerous places all around the world.   This weekend, the Times Magazine did a surprisingly fair profile of Sean Hannity, although they chose photos that make […]

  The Massachusetts Medical Society voted to repeal its policy regarding assisted suicide and euthanasia on Saturday, moving from its well-established opposition to the practice to a “neutral engagement.”   “The Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) rescinded its longstanding opposition to physician assisted suicide, or the act of a physician writing a prescription for a lethal […]

    Even if we don’t know for certain whether Roy Moore had sexual contact (of a sort) with 14-year-old Leigh Corfman, we now know that Moore has made a conscious decision to lie about his onetime relationships with teenage girls.   We know this from a combination of his own words and of new […]

    This week, Republicans in the Senate finally passed their long-awaited tax reform plan. It lowers individual income tax rates across the board, although it does claw back some government revenue in the form of elimination of state and local tax deductions. It drops corporate tax rates as well. It is, in other words, […]

    Did you see the Sunday guest column at al.com by Alabama’s temporary U.S. Sen. Luther Strange? It would be risible if it weren’t also so insulting to readers’ intelligence.   Entitled “The importance of taking on corruption,” Strange’s column bragged (in effect) that “the National Association of Attorneys General asked me to deliver […]