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My vote was suppressed Tuesday. I didn’t vote because I was not going to submit myself to walking into a polling station, even masked,...
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My vote was suppressed Tuesday. I didn’t vote because I was not going to submit myself to walking into a polling station, even masked,...
I guess we’re done. Despite a shutdown that lasted weeks, apparently state leaders were twiddling their thumbs, wishing, like Donald Trump, that COVID-19 would...
Just like Donald Trump on the national level, Gov. Kay Ivey has bungled containing the novel coronavirus COVID-19. Alabama is showing record cases and...
Oops! He did it again. Donald Trump just can’t pass up a chance to demonstrate how racist he is. We’ve known all along that...
My colleague Josh Moon last week wrote a truthful (if scathing) column about the legacy of former governor George C. Wallace. After laying out his...
I may trigger Secretary of State John Merrill, so this is the warning. We must not repeat what happened in Georgia Tuesday. In-person voting...
A moment in time: I was a young journalist, just hired by The Birmingham News. I was standing on the street outside the old...
My wife received her $1,200 stimulus payment as a direct deposit several weeks ago. I did not get one, even though we file a...
This is Thursday. Since Sunday, we’ve had more than 1,000 new cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 in Alabama. Let that number sink in....
My friend who is a server in one of our favorite Birmingham restaurants is afraid. She worries that as restaurants begin allowing customers back...