Balch & Bingham on Tuesday announced the addition of Brandi Russell as the firm’s chief diversity & inclusion officer and director of talent management. Russell joins the firm’s professional management team and will be based in its Birmingham headquarters office. As chief diversity & inclusion officer and director of talent management, Russell will reportedly work […]

Birmingham-based Regions Bank on Tuesday announced the company is expanding access to its Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan application portal to allow even more small businesses to apply for the job-sustaining funding. PPP was established by Congress last spring and is managed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) to provide crucial forgivable loans for companies […]

If Alabamians in November 2022 have the opportunity to vote and approve the gambling constitutional amendment proposal currently under consideration in the legislature, it could change the state in profound ways, according to State Sen. Clyde Chambliss (R-Prattville). Monday on Alabama Public Television’s “Capitol Journal,” Chambliss called the bill the “most transformative” legislation we could […]

2020 was a record-breaking year for the U.S. housing market, and Alabama was no exception. Investment in the state generated a lot of attention from publications around the globe as a variety of Alabama destinations appear at the top of the list for booming markets. Here are a few examples of Alabama destinations identified by […]

7. Alabama Policy Institute hammers Kay Ivey for calling legislature a “herd of turtles”  Last week, Governor Kay Ivey dismissed the proposed legislation that would limit executive powers during an emergency by referring to the legislature as a “herd of turtles.” The Alabama Policy Institute called this response “cavalier,” adding her comment was “a step […]

This week will be a pivotal week for State Sen. Del Marsh’s (R-Anniston) comprehensive gaming legislation, which, if it can reach a three-fifths majority in both chambers of the legislature, will allow Alabamians to vote on a gambling package that would allow for a lottery and the proliferation of casino gaming in various places around […]

Australia-based Austal Limited on Monday evening announced the resignation of Craig Perciavalle, the president of its American subsidiary Austal USA. In a written release, Austal said that his resignation follows the completion of an investigation conducted by external attorneys but commissioned by the company. That probe reportedly focused on what is believed to be at […]

Governor Kay Ivey has ordered flags to half-staff in Alabama to honor and remember the more than 500,000 Americans who have died due to COVID-19. The action was taken in accordance by a proclamation issued Monday by President Joe Biden; Ivey has ordered flags lowered until sunset on Friday, February 26. “Alabama joins the rest […]

A Birmingham man pleaded guilty on Monday to murdering Birmingham Police Department Sgt. Wytasha Carter and attempting to murder two other officers during an encounter in January 2019. The defendant, Jeremy Elwin Owens, will serve three life sentences in state prison and has no chance for parole. Owens, 33, avoided the death penalty for his […]

Members of Alabama’s congressional delegation are confident that a review will find that the Air Force’s decision to name Huntsville’s Redstone Arsenal as the permanent headquarters of U.S. Space Command was the correct one based on merit. The Department of Defense’s inspector general is investigating the decision, which Governor Kay Ivey welcomed in a statement […]

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey announced Monday that Revive Plus, the state government’s grant program that provided aid to small businesses and other institutions, has used up all available funding. Revive Plus was created with $200 million of the federal funds sent to Alabama in the CARES Act. It allowed small businesses, non-profits and faith-based organizations […]

Voters in Alabama are smart. Despite what you hear from certain circles in California, Washington, D.C. and beyond, the people of this state have a keen sense of what is best for their families, their quality of life and what will create the type of economic opportunity they seek. This is why it is time […]

HUNTSVILLE — The days of residents driving around the Madison County courthouse square looking for a parking spot to conduct personal business with the County are no more. The time and energy wasted standing in lines at overcrowded offices — no more. Beginning March 1, getting licenses, automobile plates, seeing the tax assessor or paying […]

During an interview that aired on last week’s broadcast of Alabama Public Television’s “Capitol Journal,” Gov. Kay Ivey seemingly dismissed members of the Alabama Legislature considering efforts to add a check to executive authority during an emergency as Alabama approaches a year of being under a health state of emergency for COVID-19. Ivey seemed to […]

Late last year, Governor Ivey urged school districts in Alabama to reopen schools and allow students the option to return to the classroom, while many school districts across the country continued with virtual learning. Alabama was ahead of the curve on what recent CDC guidance made clear – with reasonable health precautions like distancing and […]

The Department of Defense’s inspector general on Friday announced it is probing the Air Force’s decision announced last month to make Huntsville’s Redstone Arsenal the permanent headquarters of U.S. Space Command. Redstone was one of six finalists nationwide for the coveted HQ. Colorado’s Peterson Air Force Base, Space Command’s current temporary headquarters, was one of […]

Georgia’s Stacey Abrams over the weekend became the latest national leftwing firebrand to call on Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, to unionize. A vote is ongoing by employees at the Amazon fulfillment center in metropolitan Birmingham to determine whether they will join the New York City-based Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), an affiliate […]

7. Now the White House doesn’t want to praise Cuomo President Joe Biden has considered New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) “the gold standard” for how to handle the coronavirus pandemic, but now that Cuomo is facing investigation for how he covered up nursing home deaths, the White House wants to distance itself from the […]

The U.S. Department of Justice has announced that Devonte Lemon Hammonds on Friday pleaded guilty to counts that included defrauding the memorial fund of the late Huntsville Police Department Officer Billy Fred Clardy, III. Clardy was shot and killed in the line of duty in 2019 while participating in an anti-narcotics operation. Following his death, a […]

Altimmune Inc.’s AdCOVID vaccine candidate is set to begin its Phase 1 clinical trial this week, the company announced in recent days. This vaccine candidate was tested preclinically on mice last spring and summer at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB); it also potentially offers several advantages to the vaccines currently approved by the […]

Every society must protect against those who would use violence to steal from others. After controlling criminals, swindlers become a major fear and motivates many government regulations. Yet regulations against fraud allow far worse swindling than markets. Swindling is always wrong, but most people learn to avoid pedestrian scams like the email from an exiled […]

Radio talk show host Dale Jackson and Alabama Democratic Party Executive Committee member Lisa Handback take you through Alabama’s biggest political stories, including: — Are casinos a possible addition to the gambling bill? — Alabama has its first GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate seat that will be vacated by Richard Shelby in 2022. — […]

In only 21 short months, at the close of 2022, Alabama will lose the greatest senator in our state’s history. Those of us who are political historians will acknowledge Richard Shelby as Alabama’s most pronounced political emissary in Washington. In my 2015 book, “Six Decades of Alabama Political History,” I have a chapter titled “Alabama’s […]

Few people can say they knew Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks when that internationally celebrated pair were average citizens. Fred Gray can. The 90-year-old legendary civil rights lawyer has known most of the most-respected figures in the modern movement toward equality for Blacks. He represented Parks and King, persuading judges to make rulings that helped shape both […]