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Whether it’s Austal Shipyard in Mobile, Fort Rucker in the Wiregrass, Maxwell-Gunter Airforce Base in Montgomery, or Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama’s contributions to our nation’s military strength and defense programs are critical to national security.
Monday, the ALGOP announced that it had filed a motion with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the state's arguments concerning the legal battle over congressional redistricting.
In Alabama, there could be an $87.7 million income tax increase due to tax credit payments given to people throughout the pandemic.
Defense and aerospace industry powerhouses Lockheed Martin and Airbus are joining forces in a proposal to build the U.S. Air Force's future midair fueling tanker in Mobile.
State Sen. Dan Roberts (R-Mountain Brook) is leading legislative efforts to shield families from being penalized for benefitting from the tax credits.
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) […]
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.

