Radio talk show host Dale Jackson and political scientist Dr. Waymon Burke take you through this week’s biggest political stories, including: — Were President Donald Trump’s detractors rooting for a Benghazi-like disaster at an American embassy? — Does anyone believe U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) is truly undecided after his opinion piece in The Washington Post? — […]

Americans care about assisting the less fortunate, and over 100 government programs carry out this task. A closer examination, however, reveals that much of this funding goes to other purposes. This raises questions about how best to assist Americans needing help. I will focus on two programs, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Medicaid. […]

Another boll weevil invasion is occurring in Enterprise, but this time it’s being welcomed. Now, instead of destroying the cotton crop, the six-foot critters are greeting guests and spreading good will throughout the community. The city’s 15th weevil statue, Wattsworth Weevil, was unveiled recently at the Alabama Power business office, 549 Glover Ave.

A new species of fossil shark from southern Alabama has been discovered, a team of scientists led by Jun Ebersole, director of Collections at the McWane Science Center in Birmingham, announced this month. The discovery was made as part of a larger study examining the diversity of fossil sharks and bony fish living in Alabama 40 million […]

It is hard to acknowledge that 2019 has come to an end, and a new year is upon us. Not only are we stepping into a new year, but we are moving into a new decade. We have seen a significant surge in development for Alabama, and the effects can be found as far as […]

An article by Forbes this week named Birmingham, Alabama, as one of the world’s nine best affordable winter 2020 travel destinations. Other cities honored were Chicago, Guadalajara, Mexico City, San Antonio, Cartagena, Toronto, San Diego and Rome.

Work has started on a new public-use weigh-in pavilion at Smith Lake, which is part of a partnership between B.A.S.S. and Alabama Power. Union Sportsmen’s Alliance volunteers recently broke ground on the project at Lewis Smith Lake Dam Boat Ramp in Walker County. The pavilion will feature holding tanks for fish, which reduce stress and increase survival rates. The […]

Hyundai’s Alabama auto assembly plant produced 336,000 vehicles in 2019, the company announced Thursday, a total output that rose about 4 percent over the previous year. The Santa Fe SUV was the primary contributor to the production increase at Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama, as consumer preferences have shifted toward sport utilities. Workers at the Montgomery […]

One consistent theme of former Auburn University head football coach Tommy Tuberville’s bid for U.S. Senate in Alabama has been not to dwell on the minutiae of the day-to-day political struggle playing out in Washington, D.C. and on cable news. Instead, he has put some of his focus on broader issues, including faith, family and […]

During an appearance Friday on Huntsville radio’s WVNN on Friday, U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) said thus far he was pleased as to how the contest for the Republican Party nod for U.S. Senate in Alabama was advancing toward the March 3 primary. Brooks told WVNN’s “The Jeff Poor Show” he perceived the back-and-forth barbs […]

Registration opens Jan. 1 for the second annual Great Alabama 650, a grueling 650-mile non-motorized paddle race across some of the most scenic lakes and rivers in Alabama. The Alabama Scenic River Trail said registration will open at noon CST on PaddleGuru. The race will be held Sept. 26-Oct. 6, starting at Weiss Lake in northeast Alabama and finishing […]

Depending on where they pursue white-tailed deer, hunters in Alabama may be experiencing a wide range of deer breeding activity from pre-rut, and peak rut to post-rut. Studies by wildlife professionals indicate that rutting activity is most closely associated with the heritage of the deer in a particular area. The diversity of breeding activity, known […]

U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne (AL-01) on Friday reacted strongly to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) tweeting that she is “outraged” over the American military killing Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. Omar on Thursday evening, after the news of Soleimani’s death broke, tweeted, “So […]

Bodycam footage revealed the moment police officers in Alabama rescued a female who had been kidnapped, smashed in the face with a tire iron and held at knifepoint in a cage in her captor’s van. Sean E. Sanders, 51, was arrested moments after the victim was set free from the 1997 Ford Aerostar Cargo van […]

In a statement released on Friday, former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions reacted to recent comments regarding the impeachment of President Donald Trump made by U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-AL). Sessions, who is currently mounting a GOP primary bid in an effort to challenge Jones for the Senate seat Sessions formerly held, referred to an […]

The Alabama State Board of Veterans Affairs (SBVA) announced Friday via press release plans to build Alabama’s fifth veterans home facility in Enterprise. According to the Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs’ website, veterans’ home facilities are “needed for aging or chronically disabled veterans.” The homes are a partnership between both the state and federal governments, […]

The Pentagon on Thursday evening confirmed that the American military, at the direction of President Donald Trump, conducted a targeted strike in Iraq that successfully killed Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. A Department of Defense release outlined, “General Soleimani was actively developing […]

Judge Andrew Brasher is set for another confirmation process in the U.S. Senate, less than a year after being confirmed on a 52-47 vote to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. President Donald J. Trump in November announced his intention to nominate Brasher to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the […]

Alabama-based United Launch Alliance (ULA) released a video this week with spectacular footage of Starliner’s launch atop its Atlas V rocket. Designed in Huntsville, Boeing’s Starliner became the first American orbital space capsule to land on U.S. soil when it touched down at the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on December […]

Former Alabama Attorney General Troy King on Friday released his first video ad on social media in his quest to succeed U.S. Rep. Martha Roby (AL-02). Entitled, “Why I’m Running,” the ad outlines King’s deep roots in the district, including being brought up in Elba, going to college in Troy and raising his family in […]

ESPN’s press room on Thursday announced that the January 1, 2020 Citrus Bowl between the University of Alabama Crimson Tide and Michigan was ABC’s most watched college football bowl game since the 2010 National Championship game. The latest Citrus Bowl generated an audience of 14,003,000 television viewers for the network.

Following the December 29 shooting at West Freeway Church of Christ in Texas, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall on Thursday released guidance on the Yellowhammer State’s stand-your-ground law and church security. On the Sunday after Christmas, Keith Thomas Kinnunen stormed into the Texas church with a handheld pump action shotgun and killed two members of […]

7. Virginia’s governor is trying to clean his record Governor Ralph Northam (D-VA) is now making headlines for his push to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from the United States Capitol, which is there as Virginia’s statue. There are two statues for Virginia in the National Statuary Hall Collection, but U.S. […]

A federal judge will make the decision as to whether Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill is allowed to block other Twitter users from seeing his account’s tweets. The decision will be the culmination of a lawsuit brought in 2018 by the ACLU that claims Merrill’s blocking of certain Twitter users violates those users’ free […]