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- Elections
- Governor
Southern governors denounce UAW unionization campaign
Gov. Ivey announces Two Rivers Lumber plans $115 million sawmill project
Gov. Ivey awards $5.8 million in grants to weatherize homes of low-income residents
Gov. Kay Ivey marks seven years in office, infrastructure funding
Gov. Ivey signs “Parental Right to Know” bill
- Legislature
Alabama House passes $11B education budget package
House passes 18 percent cut to state library operations budget
Historic gambling bill faces critical test in conference committee
Former governors support bill for resentencing judicial override cases
Some legislation to watch: Legislature faces critical last days
- Economy
Small business optimism reaches lowest level since 2012
Mercedes Benz workers file for an election to join the UAW
Gov. Ivey: Economic development projects inject $6 billion into Alabama communities
Mercedes workers file federal charges with NLRB to stop union busting
Alabama’s labor rate steady at 57.4 percent
- National
Sewell honors retirement of Tennessee State’s first woman president
Alabama man charged with detonating explosive device outside Alabama AG’s Office
Sewell introduces legislation to rename post office after civil rights leader
Sewell to host Greene County meet and greet in Forkland
ALGOP chair joins chorus criticizing alignment of Easter, transgender visibility day
- Education
Hoover schools block library app to find, remove “sexual content”
New statewide coalition seeks changes to Alabama’s school funding policy
UA hosts senators, highlights dyslexia program success and teacher impact
Stillman finalizes partnership with BSC to accept student transfers
Sen. Britt celebrates Tuskegee’s new flight school, backed by $6.7 million grant
- Health
Montgomery psychiatrist named president of Alabama Medical Association
Alabama doctors unveil “Your Care is at Our Core,” emphasizing personal connections
Medical center in Mobile resumes IVF services
ALFA Insurance targets health sector amid regulatory debate in Alabama
Judges choose two Alabama Performance Excellence winners
- Opinion
Opinion | Dobson v. Figures: Can the Democrats cash in?
Opinion | Last roll of the dice on Alabama’s gambling bill
Opinion | State leaders all aboard on “Working for Alabama” plan
Opinion | High school graduation, college and career readiness rates improve
Opinion | Threat to democracy in Alabama: The tyranny of the minority
Jim Crow stories
Economy
Alabama’s average poverty rate is 17.6 percent. The Black Belt’s average is 24 percent.
Opinion
"He may have been one of the most important Alabamians unknown to people in and out of the state."
National
Republicans praise Georgia's new election law, but Democrats say it brings Jim Crow to the 21st Century.
Featured Opinion
Alabama is so often on the wrong side of history that one has to wonder if that’s intentional. Are we doing it on purpose,...
Elections
It’s such a shame to see racist pandering go wasted. But such is life for Tommy Tuberville and Bradley Byrne, it appears. Two reasonable,...
Featured Opinion
In 1968, shortly after gunning down Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, James Earl Ray was running from police, who...
National
The U.S.’s first memorial dedicated to those terrorized by lynchings, the legacy of enslaved black people and African-Americans who faced the terror of the...
Featured Opinion
By Joey Kennedy Alabama Political Reporter How many times is Alabama going to go down this well-traveled road? We’re like a Twilight Zone episode....
Featured Opinion
By Josh Moon Alabama Political Reporter At a ceremony Monday at the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church in downtown Montgomery, Gov. Kay Ivey...