Auburn’s first season under Hugh Freeze is over, ending with three straight losses and domination by Maryland in the Music City Bowl. However, all hope isn’t lost on the Plains. Freeze has brought a momentum to Auburn recruiting that the program has not seen in a long time. Here’s an official markup from The Auburn […]

Christie Strategy Group has announced that it has selected a new member of its lobbying team. The new addition, Ryan Sanford, is a political and public affairs veteran with career experience in both the Governor's office and at Arete Consulting, an Alabama based public affairs firm that she helped to establish and where she is also a current partner.

Swatting is attempted murder.

2024 is already another big year for Birmingham-based Big Communications. On Wednesday, it was announced Big was selected to support two initiatives of Innovate Alabama — the state’s flagship public-private innovation partnership. The organization even rolled out a new website to show for it. Big says the site is structured to support all organizational pillars […]

With Alabama and Michigan, two of the biggest brands in college football, facing off in Pasadena and a spot in the national championship on the line, huge television ratings were anticipated. But the numbers on the Rose Bowl ended up being even bigger than initially anticipated. ESPN pulled in a monstrous 27.2 million viewers during […]

Manufacture Alabama, a large state based trade association, has announced that it has chosen to promote two current employees to high level leadership positions within the organization.

The House returns to Washington next week to begin the second session of the 118th Congress. My top priority this year is to take the fight to President Biden and fix the damage he’s done to this country. We must secure our southern border, protect life, and rein in reckless government spending. Last year, the House […]

On Tuesday, now-former Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigned from her position following testimony she delivered before Congress in defense of antisemitic behavior on Harvard’s campus. Harvard initially resisted calls to sideline Gay. Since then, over 40 documented instances of Gay plagiarizing other academics’ work throughout decades surfaced. U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville said that Gay was […]

Major moving truck, trailer, and self storage rental business company, U-Haul, has released its annual "U-Haul Migration Trends" report for 2023. According to the data compiled over the past year in the U-Haul Growth Index, Alabama is ranked 22nd in the country for having the highest rate of people moving into a state using one way U-Haul equipment.

Former President Donald Trump is officially challenging the Maine Secretary of State's decision to remove him from the state's ballot claiming that he violated section 3 of the 14th Amendment by engaging in insurrection, which is obviously not true

For years, the question has lingered throughout Alabama: lottery or no lottery? To game or not to game? The answer? Folks, it is already here! If you haven’t ventured into any of Alabama’s three casinos owned by the Poarch Band of Creek Indians – Wind Creek Casino and Hotel Wetumpka, Wind Creek Casino and Hotel […]

Alabama Policy Institute (API) President Stephanie Smith said that gambling will be one of the two biggest issues confronting the Alabama Legislature in 2024. She suggested that a forthcoming gambling commission set up by the state could create issues similar to those currently plaguing the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission (AMCC). As a legal framework for […]

Alabama’s season came to an end on Sunday night in Pasadena at the hands of the Michigan Wolverines, who will compete against Washington next Monday night for their first national title since 1997, and Washington’s first since 1991. Following the Texas and South Florida games, there was widespread skepticism over Alabama’s chance to run the […]

Alabama State Sen. Greg Reed (R-Jasper) believes the Legislature will be able to accomplish a lot of important things in 2024.

Republican members of the Alabama congressional delegation are once again blaming Biden for the continuing crisis at the U.S. southern border. 

Alabama’s overtime loss to Michigan on Sunday night ended on a 4th and goal stop from the three yard line on which the play call was one which fans have debated since the moment it happened. With Roydell Williams in the backfield to Jalen Milroe’s right and slight rear, Milroe motioned him left, took the […]

The city of Blountsville is about to receive some much needed updates to a portion of it's municipal water line. The section of the line set to be upgraded is old, even by Alabama standards. Originally constructed in 1941, the section, located on U.S. Highway 231, will now be modernized thanks to a $250,000 grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) to the Blountsville Utilities Board which will be administered by the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs (ADECA).

Starting January 1, hourly workers who perform work in excess of 40 hours per week, overtime, will take home a larger portion of their wages as a new policy goes into effect. The bipartisan idea was proposed by Alabama House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels. Rep. Daniels’ (D-Huntsville) bill to eliminate state income tax on overtime […]

The Alabama Policy Institute has released its 2023-2024 Education Freedom in Alabama report. Part of the data compiled, according to the organization, demonstrates why attaining universal school choice within the state has proven difficult.

Every Monday we present Tide Takes, where we’ll get into a different topic on the Crimson Tide, break down the previous game, preview the upcoming game, and everything in between. In this week’s edition, the season comes to a conclusion with a devastating Rose Bowl loss to Michigan. Alabama seemed to revert back to the team […]

As the crisis at the southern border grows worse with each passing day, two high ranking Republican congressmen have announced that they will be visiting Eagle Pass, Texas to gain a “new perspective” on the mass illegal immigration taking place.

Lt. Governor Will Ainsworth released a list of his 2024 New Year’s resolutions. He says on top of that list at number one is a “real school choice bill so all parents are empowered to educate their children in the most effective manner.” The 2024 legislative session is fast approaching and talk of a school […]

Alabama football comes up short against Michigan 27-20 in overtime in the last year of the 4 team College Football Playoff

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