HARTFORD, Alabama – Officials in rural Geneva County believe their job-creation efforts will receive a major boost from a new 45,000-square-foot speculative building that’s ideal for a manufacturing operation. A ceremonial groundbreaking for the building in the Geneva County Industrial Park was held this month. Construction on the structure, located near to the Air Performance Inc. […]

The Washington Nationals announced Monday that they are calling up Ben Braymer, a former pitcher for the Auburn Tigers, who will take on a bullpen role for the club. Braymer, 26, is the second former Auburn pitcher to be called up this season, after Casey Mize made his debut for the Detroit Tigers earlier in […]

Alabama businesses of all sizes will have the opportunity to connect and learn from industry experts on a wide array of topics from economic development to marketing your business in a post-COVID world. The Business Council of Alabama is excited to present Engage Alabama: A Virtual Business Summit on August 26-27, 2020. The two-day virtual […]

7. Municipal elections underway in Alabama Many local elections are taking place Tuesday across the state of Alabama for non-partisan local offices, including mayors, positions on school boards and city councils. With most media, including local media, fixated on what is happening nationally, these local positions which handle policy-making for cities and schools are usually […]

The University of Alabama System on Monday voluntarily launched a comprehensive online dashboard that displays key COVID-19 data for its three distinct institutions: the University of Alabama, the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). Student testing data to-date was released with the launch of the dashboard. This […]

A group of River Region organizations including the City of Montgomery announced Monday the creation of Montgomery Techlab, a program designed to increase the viability of mobile app developers in the area. The program consists in large part of a 12-week program described as “intensive” where startup companies from the Montgomery area that develop apps […]

RADAR CHECK: Rain is relatively widespread across Alabama this afternoon south of a line from Auburn to Greenville to Mobile; this is the rain shield associated with Marco, a dissipating tropical system in the far northern Gulf of Mexico. The rain and thunderstorms are well removed from the center due to strong shear. The sky […]

For political nerds, now is usually a part of the four-year political cycle to look forward to. Conventions, nominations, speeches and the unofficial kick-off of presidential elections are usually the number one news story of the month, but this is not a normal year. This year has seen the coronavirus pandemic, economic insecurity, the USPS […]

The campaign of U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) on Sunday sent out a fundraising email for five of his colleagues, including a vice chair of the Senate Democratic Caucus led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY). Jones’ email was a joint fundraising pitch that said contributions would be split evenly six ways between each […]

COVID-19 cases have spiked across Alabama, hitting our state’s low-income and African American counties with a vengeance. Perry County now has per-capita infection rates exceeding peak levels in New York City, while Lowndes County – with its long, storied history of civil rights’ struggles – has also suffered enormously. Throughout the country, telemedicine grew astronomically […]

The City of Hoover will hold municipal elections on Tuesday, and Place 2 city council candidate Ron Brown will be one of the names on the ballot. A local entrepreneur, Brown recently posted a video voicing his strong support for growing high-quality jobs and opportunity in Alabama’s sixth-largest city. “Business growth — I think that’s […]

The Associated Press has released its preseason rankings of college football’s best teams, and Alabama is ranked No. 3 followed by Auburn at No. 11. The Clemson Tigers are ranked first, followed by Ohio State, Alabama, Georgia and Oklahoma in the top five. The preseason rankings will be the last version to include teams like […]

Alabama State Parks have long served as Alabama’s backyard. That’s been more evident than ever in recent months, as Alabama’s 21 state parks remained open thanks to the wisdom of Gov. Kay Ivey, Conservation Commissioner Chris Blankenship and other state leaders. The number of day-use and camping visitors soared this summer, drawn by the variety […]

State Representative Andrew Sorrell (R-Muscle Shoals) on Monday cast all of the state’s 50 delegates to officially renominate President Donald Trump as the GOP’s candidate for president in 2020. The official nomination of Trump was a procedural matter — the president has enormous support among Republican voters and faced only token challengers in the primary […]

Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox announced Monday that he has issued an executive order closing all bars and bar service at restaurants in the city for 14 days. He said the decision was made in concert with the University of Alabama and local health officials. Maddox appeared at a press conference alongside University of Alabama President […]

Regions Bank announced Monday that it is granting $75,000 to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI) to help offset revenue losses caused by the coronavirus pandemic. BCRI is currently in the midst of raising $750,000 before the end of the year to keep operating, meaning the Regions grant covers 10% of the total fundraising goal. […]

Alabama Power and the Alabama Wildlife Federation (AWF) are working together to provide a new place to fish off the Alabama coast. The two deployed an artificial reef Thursday about 8 miles off the coast of Dauphin Island. The reef is made of three repurposed tanks from Barry Steam Plant near Mobile. The tanks, which were used to […]

7. Extreme weather could impact Alabama With municipal election day on Tuesday, Alabama could see severe weather enter the state thanks to two tropical storms that could be hurricanes by the time they make landfall, which is currently expected to be in Louisiana and Texas. The National Weather Service has lessened the predicted storm surge […]

A principal’s parody of an MC Hammer video emphasizing COVID-19 guidelines has captured the heart of America and much of the world over the past three weeks, garnering more than 5.8 million views so far. After conducting almost 30 national and international interviews (and counting) in the past two weeks, Quentin Lee, the Childersburg High School principal […]

Some of you may wonder how many past governors we have in Alabama who are still living and how they are doing. We have six living past governors. Governor John Patterson is our oldest living chief executive. Patterson is 99-years-old and living on his ancestral family farm in rural Tallapoosa County in an obscure area […]

During this week’s broadcast of Alabama Public Television’s “Capitol Journal,” State Rep. Chris England (D-Tuscaloosa), who also serves as the chairman of the Alabama Democratic Party, was optimistic about his party’s chances in Alabama in November. England said that both Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and incumbent U.S. Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) could win […]

Radio talk show host Dale Jackson and Alabama Democratic Executive Committee member Lisa Handback take you through this week’s biggest political stories, including: — Has Alabama reached the other side of its coronavirus issues? — Is it time for more strident enforcement of Alabama’s mask order? — Can U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) straddle the […]

Governments have implemented a range of unprecedented policy measures to slow the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Whether “non-pharmaceutical interventions” have slowed infections or produced health benefits exceeding their enormous cost are important questions. Today, I will consider whether these emergency measures will permanently diminish our freedom. The policies of the COVID-19 lockdown were not […]

Although it’s no picnic, wearing a face mask gets easier. That’s Elizabeth Perkins’ message to kids who have not yet started back to school. After more than a week of wearing a face mask for about six hours a day at school, the eighth grader at Bessemer Academy advises other students to practice wearing their mask at […]