Fox Sports has set its sights on Alabama’s Magic City as a potential landing spot for the home of the United States Football League (USFL), which is slated to begin playing as a spring league in April 2022. Negotiations have long been underway for Birmingham to play host to the USFL, which will differ from […]

7. Borders with Mexico and Canada are opening, even though the southern border is clearly open While it’s already appeared that the southern border has been open under President Joe Biden, it’s now official that the United States’ borders with Mexico and Canada will reopen to fully vaccinated individuals. For now, only those traveling non-essentially […]

The Alabama-built Atlas V 401 rocket will deliver NASA’s next mission, the Lucy spacecraft, to a hyperbolic orbit next week. The launch vehicle was built at United Launch Alliance’s (ULA’s) 1.6 million square foot facility in Decatur. Lift off is scheduled for Saturday, October 16 at 5:34 a.m. EDT at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station […]

When I was a teenager back in the 1980s, Alabama had a hit song called “40 Hour Week.” It was an anthem to the American work ethic. You still hear it played on country radio today. One of its great stanzas is: This is for the one who swings the hammer, Driving home the nail […]

It’s fall, which means it’s college football season throughout the South. It’s no secret that SEC allegiances stir up intense emotions here in Alabama. But whether they cheer on the Tigers or Crimson Tide, there is one thing Alabamians can agree on: Joe Biden is a failed president. It’s not only Alabamians. A recent Quinnipiac […]

Even though home sales have begun to show signs of slowing, the market for vacation homes is not likely to slow any time soon. According to National Association of REALTORS (NAR) chief economist Lawrence Yun, flexible work schedules in a post-pandemic economy will continue to drive demand for vacation home sales. “One near-certain aspect of the […]

Every Republican legislator, governor and attorney general in the country is preparing to go to war with the Biden administration over the president’s vaccine mandate that seems to be inching closer and closer to reality. Whether or not they have the ability to fight this mandate is one thing, and whether they are serious is […]

Final preparations are underway for United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Atlas V rocket to launch NASA’s historic Lucy mission, which will explore remnants of the early solar system. ULA’s rocket launch will set into motion a first-of-its-kind mission to explore what is known as the Jupitar Trojan asteroids. The 12-year mission will see NASA’s Lucy spacecraft […]

Last week’s dust-up between U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) and the Alabama Farmers Federation is still having ripple effects throughout Alabama’s political landscape. Shortly after FarmPAC, the Alabama Farmers Federation’s (ALFA) political arm, announced its slate of endorsements, which included former Business Council of Alabama president and CEO Katie Britt for U.S. Senate, Brooks had […]

U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer (R-Hoover) on Wednesday issued a grave assessment regarding the ever-increasing national debt, which is inching closer to $30 trillion with each passing day. The failure of the federal government to address the rapidly growing financial burden of public debt has drawn immense criticism from fiscal conservatives in both chambers of Congress. […]

The Biden administration on Tuesday announced that Nivory Gordon, Jr. will serve as the Alabama state director for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development. President Joe Biden’s announcement included a string of regional and state appointments of Rural Development state directors and Farm Service Agency (FSA) state executive directors. USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack […]

Northrop Grumman on Tuesday announced the opening of its new Cummings Research Park facility, further expanding the defense juggernaut’s operations in the Rocket City. The work conducted at the company’s new facility will support work with the U.S. Air Force Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) Program, the nation’s next generation intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) system. […]

The U.S. House of Representatives voted Tuesday along party lines 219-206 to temporarily extend the federal debt limit to early December. With the Democrat-controlled Congress now having reached a short-term agreement to increase the nation’s debt ceiling, the measure now heads to the desk of President Joe Biden for his signature. The U.S. Senate last […]

7. Alabama wins big next-generation missile defense contract Northrop Grumman has announced that they will be hiring 500 more engineers in Huntsville to work on a missile defense program with the Air Force. Huntsville was selected for the “rich expertise and legacy” in the area for this industry. Vice president and general manager of Northrop’s […]

BIRMINGHAM — U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-AL) efforts to prohibit a controversial Internal Revenue Service (IRS) policy proposed by the Biden administration has garnered increased interest from consumers and banking industry leaders alike. Alabama’s junior senator on Tuesday held a press conference with representatives from various associations and financial institutions promoting Tuberville’s “Protecting Financial Privacy […]

Development of a new concept for a solid-fueled ramjet using a rotating detonation engine (RDE) for hypersonic air-breathing propulsion at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, has attracted a three-year, $1.5 million grant. The project’s principal investigator is Dr. Gabe Xu (pronounced shoe), an associate professor […]

The Alabama-built Atlas V 401 rocket will deliver NASA’s next mission, the Lucy spacecraft, to a hyperbolic orbit next week. The launch vehicle was built at United Launch Alliance’s (ULA’s) 1.6 million square foot facility in Decatur. Lift off is scheduled for Saturday, October 16 at 5:34 a.m. EDT at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station […]

Joe Newton is a business consultant in Dallas, Texas, who has a Kingdom mindset and loves people well. He had a transformation in his life, and he now endeavors to partner with God in all aspects of his life. In this episode, Joe talks about how reading the word of God changed his life and […]

Natural graphite development company Westwater Resources, Inc. announced that its board of directors had approved expenditures of $202 million to be appropriated toward the construction plan for phase one of the Coosa Graphite Project in Kellyton. The project to construct a first-of-its-kind advanced graphite processing plant was announced earlier this year. The plant is expected […]

Fresh off a historic victory in House District 73’s special election earlier this year, State Rep. Kenneth Paschal (R-Pelham) on Tuesday announced that he will seek to serve a full term in the Alabama House of Representatives. Paschal was successful in his bid to fulfill the remainder of former State Rep. Matt Fridy’s (R-Montevallo) term. […]

A federal judge has refused the state of Alabama’s request to dismiss the issue of staffing cited in the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) lawsuit against the state’s prison system, according to the Associated Press (AP). In considering the motion by state lawyers, AP reports that U.S. District Judge David Proctor agreed with the state’s […]

7. The federal government has time to continue the whipping investigation Despite the claims that Border Patrol agents were whipping Haitian migrants at the southern border in September already being disproven, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has continued its investigation that was only supposed to take “days.” A spokesperson for DHS said that they […]

The top prize for the Alabama Black Belt Adventures Best Fish Photo Contest’s beginners division was awarded to three-year-old Spur Knight of Valley Grande. For the Knight family, fishing is certainly a family affair. Chase Knight and his son Spur, accompanied by his older brother Gauge, age seven, were fishing at the Dallas County Public […]

The board of directors of Birmingham-headquartered holding company Altec, Inc. has announced the promotion of Allen Ritchie to president and CEO. In 2007, Ritchie joined the company as senior vice president and chief financial officer. Altec says the newly-appointed company head holds a deep understanding of manufacturing and distribution, financial services and service technology organizations. […]