The Eagle Forum on Monday announced its political action committee's endorsement of U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks' (R-Huntsville) bid for the U.S. Senate.

State Senator Del Marsh (R-Anniston) is proposing a real school choice bill that, if fully implemented, would give parents $6,500 to use at another public school, a private school or to homeschool.

State Sen. Del Marsh (R-Anniston) plans to officially introduce the "Parent's Choice Act," which would create a program to expand alternative educational options to parents through education savings accounts.

State Rep. Wes Allen (R-Troy), a candidate for Alabama Secretary of State, on Monday vowed to pull the state's membership from a George Soros-connected voter registration organization.

The commission in mid-December released its official report outlining the policy recommendations that the Alabama Innovation Corporation Board will be charged with implementing. A key component to support Alabama’s innovation economy, the commission found, is the attraction and retainment of talent.

The contest for the Republican nomination in Alabama's U.S. Senate race has all the makings of a true horserace according to a recently released poll from Club for Growth PAC, the political action committee of Washington, D.C.-based Club for Growth.

State Rep. Andrew Sorrell (R-Muscle Shoals) announced that he was directing a significant amount of his campaign's resources toward an aggressive media purchase.

Democrats are heavily outnumbered by Republicans, with seven statewide races having no Democrat candidates.

Jennifer Fidler, a native of Silverhill, formally announced her candidacy for that seat upon qualifying with the Alabama Republican Party earlier this month.

The special session of the Legislature ended with $772 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds going to expand high-speed internet, water and sewer projects and health care needs. But it could have just as easily ended with the Legislature holding hands and singing “Kumbaya.” The five-day session’s grand finale came when both chambers (almost) […]

Gee’s Bend, Alabama, couldn’t be real.

Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens were recently not elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in their final year of eligibility, reportedly over their use of performance enhancing drugs. The case illustrates some of the economics of rules and the nature of “positional goods.”

Radio talk show host Dale Jackson and political consultant Mecca Musick take you through Alabama’s biggest political stories

Alabama’s automakers are eyeing growth on many fronts in 2022, with plans for new models, additional employees and advanced technology that will help usher in the next era of vehicle manufacturing in the state.

The wind tunnel at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) will be used to study the effects of shock waves at transonic, supersonic and hypersonic speeds under a three-year, $249,000 basic research grant from the Thermal Transport Program of the National Science Foundation. Known as the SuperSonic/TranSonic/WindTunnel or SS/TS/WT, the $2 million facility at […]

An ongoing blood-supply shortage in Alabama, fueled by the pandemic, has gone from bad to dire, spurring hospital leaders and blood donation organizations to implore Alabamians to donate.

For more than half a century, Jefferson Country Store has offered grocery staples and a place to gather for the tiny community of Jefferson in Marengo County. Today, the store serves a much larger population – with people coming from miles away, and even other states, to enjoy a burger or some homemade pimento cheese or to […]

On Friday, U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) blamed his U.S. Senate Republican primary opponent, former Business Council of Alabama head Katie Britt, for playing a role in the appointment of who he deemed to be "liberal, activist federal judges," who were part of a federal court three-judge panel rejecting the congressional redistricting maps passed by the Alabama Legislature in a special session last year.

Last week's passage of legislation to appropriate American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding made it through the Alabama Senate with a 26-1 vote.

As the final regular legislative session of the quadrennium evolves, it is apparent that the legislature will not touch any substantive or controversial issues, but simply pass the budgets and go home to campaign. It is election year in the Heart of Dixie. If legislators are listening to their constituents, they are hearing one thing […]

New research to make future computer solid state drives (SSDs) more resilient, durable and energy-efficient has attracted a five-year, $650,000 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award for Dr. Biswajit Ray of the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), as well as the interest of two manufacturers. Dr. Ray, an assistant professor in […]

Birmingham’s Southern Research is building an $84 million facility that will enhance its research capabilities, create nearly 550 jobs and double the organization’s economic impact to $300 million per year. The new building will be at the center of efforts to improve public health outcomes across Alabama, said Dr. Josh Carpenter, president and CEO of Southern Research. […]

The negative impact humans have on their environment is constantly on display, with climate change, land alterations and harmful algal blooms affecting people’s lives daily.

Fourteen miles from the University of Alabama’s bustling college campus lies the site of another thriving community.