7. The spending binge is not over People who love spending taxpayer dollars never ever let a crisis go to waste. The “climate change crisis” is a never-ending piggybank of opportunity, and they now want to use it to spend an additional $3 trillion over the next decade, but it could be up to $10 […]

Last month, State Sen. Jim McClendon (R-Springville) introduced legislation that would reconstitute the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) and remake the agency’s leadership. McClendon, the chairman of the State Senate Health Committee, proposed abolishing the State Board of Health and the State Health Officer. Also included in his proposal would be creating a Secretary […]

DOTHAN — Fresh off his announcement of a run for U.S. Senate days earlier, U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) made a stop in the southeastern corner of the state on Thursday to woo GOP voters more than a year ahead of the 2022 Republican primary. In his 2017 bid for U.S. Senate, Brooks struggled in […]

HomeTown Lenders (HTL) on Thursday announced a major partnership with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital that will strive to generate $1 million this year to support the hospital’s mission of finding cures and ultimately saving children’s lives. In a press release, HTL outlined that it has set a goal of donating at least $1 million […]

Five people are confirmed dead in the Calhoun County town of Ohatchee as Alabama undergoes an enormous bout of severe weather, including tornadoes that have touched down in various locations from the Black Belt across the Birmingham area and into Northern Alabama. The Calhoun County Emergency Management Agency published a release at 4:26 p.m. confirming […]

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is being called out for not walking the walk ahead of his Friday visit to speak with Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama. Sanders is slated to be joined by rapper “Killer Mike” and Hollywood’s Danny Glover on his trip, which will come the same day that first lady Jill Biden […]

The World Games 2022 is looking for talented young singers from the Birmingham metropolitan area. A multi-sport event that will take place in the Magic City from July 7- 17, 2022, The World Games 2022 will see an anticipated 3,600 athletes from over 100 countries participate in more than 30 different sports. Birmingham’s under-construction Protective Stadium will […]

Former Vice President Mike Pence will travel to Montgomery on October 7 to speak at Faulkner University’s annual benefit dinner. Mike Williams, president of Faulkner University, announced the news Pence was the 2021 speaker at a press conference on Thursday morning. “Mike Pence is a man of deep Christian faith,” said Williams at the unveiling. […]

U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) has come out in firm opposition to S.1, which is Senate Democrats’ version of H.R. 1. The legislation, the so-called “For the People Act,” has been widely criticized by Republicans. The House recently passed H.R. 1 without any GOP votes and with bipartisan opposition; U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) this […]

Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions will be the keynote speaker at Southern Preparatory Academy’s first-ever Board of Trustees Scholarship Banquet. Southern Prep was known for years as Lyman Ward Military Academy before rebranding in 2019. A boarding school, it bills itself as “Alabama’s premier military academy for boys” and takes young men in grades […]

U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) on Thursday introduced a bill that would prohibit detained illegal aliens from being freely released into the United States without at least receiving a court date. Due to the surge of migrants at the southwest border and overcrowding at detention facilities, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has started to release […]

Governor Kay Ivey has issued a state of emergency for 28 counties in Alabama ahead of severe weather anticipated for Thursday. The counties range from the Black Belt through the northeast corner of the state, including the highly populated Jefferson and Madison Counties. The National Weather Service (NWS) stations in Birmingham and Huntsville have issued […]

7. Democrats do not have the votes they need to pass the House’s gun control The Democrats and their media will make a lot of noise about gun control that has been passed in the U.S. House, but the fact that they don’t have everyone in their caucus on board makes that all but impossible […]

Next week could be another make-or-break week for State Sen. Del Marsh’s (R-Anniston) comprehensive gaming proposal as far as the 2021 regular session goes. After a week away from the State House in Montgomery, lawmakers in the upper chamber are set to debate a revised proposal that will reportedly include the so-called enabling legislation sought […]

The final results of a high-profile study revealed on Wednesday that the U.S. portion of the Gulf of Mexico contains more than 110 million red snapper, roughly three times as many as previously estimated. Referred to as The Great Red Snapper Count, the years-long study was funded to the tune of $10 million by the […]

A bill expanding coronavirus vaccine access for military veterans and those who care for them, of which U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) was an original cosponsor, was signed into law on Wednesday. The bill makes expanded categories of individuals eligible to get COVID-19 vaccines at medical facilities operated by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). […]

Honda on Wednesday announced the company is donating 10 EG2800i portable generators to be used by the Alabama Department of Public Health and county health departments in the state’s COVID-19 vaccination plan. The donation is a part of a total seven-state effort by Honda to aid vaccine distributions in places where the company has a […]

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has joined with his counterparts in 12 other states in filing a lawsuit asking a federal judge to end President Joe Biden’s ban on new federal oil and gas drilling. Biden on January 27 signed an executive order placing a halt on all new permits to drill for oil and […]

The most obvious political question of the 2022 election has finally been answered. U.S. Representative Terri Sewell (D-Birmingham) is not running for the United States Senate. She never was going to. Trust me, I get it. Doug Jones is out as well, so who’s up? Aldotcom’s Kent Faulk asked that question today:

Hollywood actress Jennifer Garner will join first lady Jill Biden, Ph.D., in Alabama on Friday, according to a White House advisory. The duo is scheduled to visit the Jasper Area Family Service Center and the YMCA of Central Alabama in Birmingham. Biden and Garner will be stumping for the recently enacted $1.9 trillion Democratic spending […]

The Alabama College Attainment Network (Alabama CAN) on Thursday will host a virtual conference focused on the transition from high school to and through postsecondary education. The theme of the conference is “Connecting Learning to Earning from K-12 to College and Beyond,” with presentations spanning a variety of important topics such as postsecondary access and […]

Democratic socialist U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is scheduled to visit Alabama this Friday, a spokesperson told media outlets on Wednesday morning. Sanders will travel to meet with Amazon employees in Bessemer, reports advised. When Sanders traveled to Birmingham during the 2020 presidential campaign cycle, he vowed to end Alabama’s right-to-work status, which has been […]

U.S. Representative Terri Sewell (D-Birmingham) announced Wednesday that she will not seek Alabama’s open U.S. Senate seat in the 2022 midterm election. “After careful consideration and consultation with my family and closest advisors, I have decided that the unfinished business of my home district, Alabama’s 7th Congressional District, is far too important for me to […]

The U.S. Department of Defense on Tuesday announced that the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has awarded two contracts for the next phase of the Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) competition. NGI is slated to eventually become the program to defend the American homeland against potential intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) attacks from nations like North Korea and Iran. […]