After months of delay under pandemic conditions, Alabama’s primary election has finally (mercifully) come to an end. With two congressional runoffs serving as the undercard, the showcase U.S. Senate race went to former Auburn head football coach Tommy Tuberville. The fallout from these races left some in the winners column, while others were not so […]

Tommy Tuberville on Tuesday won Alabama's Republican U.S. Senate primary runoff and will face U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) in November.

The state of Alabama is voting Tuesday, July 14. Follow along for live election coverage regarding the primary runoff contests for U.S. Senate ...

The Montgomery County Board of Education on Tuesday plans to consider a motion brought forth by community members that would push to rename three local high schools named after Confederate leaders Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Sidney Lanier. Efforts to rename buildings, institutions and traditions that get their names from Confederate history have been […]

Or, and this is what is going to happen, teachers will demand they not be forced to go back to work and they will still get paid.

A global pandemic did not stop Thomas Franklin Vaughns, a Tuskegee Airman, from celebrating his 100th birthday on Sunday.

Children often bear the worst of our challenges, and our disagreements. When Alabama public schools shut down in response to the coronavirus pandemic, we saw (again) that the promise of education is not equally available to all young people. Many government-run school administrators were unable to deliver education to the children within their districts. At […]

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic will create fundamental changes in the way industry, retailers, education systems, and average citizens perform tasks that were previously considered routine. This social evolution will occur at an increasing pace as the effects of social distancing and other virus prevention directives continue to modify traditional ways of life in […]

Although it has been lost in the tumult of the current news cycle, Alabama continues to grapple with problems plaguing the state’s prison system. Early in 2019, the Department of Justice warned the state that its prisons violated the Eighth Amendment. Since then, the governor’s office and the Alabama legislature have vowed to address the […]

MONTGOMERY, Alabama – Governor Kay Ivey today announced that Alabama Pellets LLC, a subsidiary of Canada-based Pinnacle Renewable Energy Inc., plans to invest $95 million to construct a wood pellet production facility in Demopolis. The Alabama Pellets facility is expected to have an annual production volume of 360,000 metric tons and will start initial industrial wood pellet […]

One of America’s largest egg producers donated 280,800 eggs to help feed Alabama’s least fortunate citizens last week. The donation was made by Cal-Maine foods, founded and headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi, a company that by some measures accounts for a quarter of all egg consumption in the United States. Cal-Maine operates a facility in the […]

With many citizens being concerned about the coronavirus and potential exposure at polling places, absentee ballots became a popular choice for voting

A man from Alabama’s Rocket City completed last week a 1,000-mile walk from his hometown to Minneapolis, Minnesota, in honor of George Floyd and the larger struggle for racial equality in America. Terry Willis has used the publicity from his march to help raise tens of thousands of dollars via a GoFundMe page. He says […]

President Donald Trump held a tele town hall with Tommy Tuberville ahead of Alabama's primary runoff Election Day on Tuesday.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has been attached to the top of the Alabama-built rocket that will send it toward the Red Planet in the coming weeks.

Altimmune, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, has announced positive results from the preclinical studies conducted in mice at the University of Alabama at Birmingham of its intranasal COVID-19 vaccine candidate, AdCOVID. The studies — a collaboration between UAB and the Gaithersburg, Maryland-based Altimmune — showed strong serum neutralizing activity and potent mucosal IgA immunity in the respiratory […]

In the waning days of the campaign, Mobile County Commissioner Jerry Carl has added the endorsements of four prominent elected officials in the southwest Alabama congressional district he seeks to represent. State Reps. Chip Brown (R-Hollinger’s Island) and Shane Stringer (R-Citronelle) threw their support behind Carl last week, followed by Daphne Mayor Dane Haygood and […]

Steve Savarese, head of the Alabama High School Athletic Association (AHSAA), will lead the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS)...

The two candidates in Alabama’s other statewide race, a seat on the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, are making their cases to Alabama Republicans ahead of Tuesday’s primary runoff election. Judge Beth Kellum, the incumbent in the race, is asking voters for a third term after first being elected in 2008. She is stressing her […]

University of Alabama linebacker Dylan Moses and defensive back Patrick Surtain II have been named to the 2020 Bednarik Award Preseason Watch List.

7. Kids have to go back to school Schools across the country will have to reopen for in-class instruction for the fall semester, according to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, even though some states are still concerned over coronavirus cases.  DeVos said “kids cannot afford to not continue learning,” adding that it’s “not a matter of […]

The U.S. Supreme Court recently delivered a “big win” for school choice and religious freedom. School choice enables competition, which economists find generally improves the quality of goods and services. I believe that this result will apply to education, and specifically public schools. Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue involved 2015 legislation allowing tax-deductible contributions […]

Jackson and Handback are joined by former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions to discuss the runoff election for the Republican nomination

Sisters Allie Corcoran and Cassie Young loved growing up on a farm in Eufaula, but once they left home and earned their degrees at Auburn University, they realized their hearts were still at the family farm. “I always knew I wanted to come home and be part of the farm, but I didn’t know where I […]