Opinion
The chance of there being “just mercy” for Nathaniel Woods—facing lethal injection on March 5 for the killing of three Birmingham police officers—is as...
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- Legislature
Alabama Democratic Party reaffirms support for removal of state grocery tax
Lawmakers may close Alabama primaries during next legislative session
State Sen. Jimmy Holley honored by Troy University
Human Rights Campaign reviews “record-breaking” year of anti-LGBTQ laws
Legislature addresses primary issues, League of Municipalities says
- Opinion
- National
Alabama political leaders react to raid at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence
Sewell introduces bipartisan legislation to protect long-term care hospitals
Shelby, Tuberville vote against climate, health and deficit reduction package
Congressman Barry Moore backs Big Cat Public Safety Act
Beasley Allen asks judicial panel to consolidate social media cases
- Education
Students say Biden’s promise to forgive debt affected their decision to borrow
New director to form partnerships that support industry, boost UA
Shelby County teacher proselytized students, says Freedom From Religion Foundation
Alabama 3rd grade reading levels slightly improve: PARCA study
Former Limestone superintendent first to be sentenced in virtual school scam
- Health
Most infectious COVID strain yet is causing a spike in transmission
ADPH switches to once weekly updates of COVID dashboard
Ivey’s office blasts ADPH message on masking
Alabama Warmline expands to 24/7 access to prevent mental health crises
Alabama’s COVID positivity rate continues to rise amid BA. 5 subvariant surge
News
On November 12, intrepid abolitionist, Sister Helen Prejean, tweeted to her legions of followers: “What do Sen. Ted Cruz, Gigi Hadid, Kim Kardashian, Sen....
Opinion
For $25,000, Alabama’s Attorney General Steve Marshall has contracted with Tennessee company “FDR Safety,” to assist Alabama in developing a barbaric new protocol –...
News
In 2016, together with former colleague Assistant Federal Public Defender Donnie W. Bethel, I wrote, “[p]eople of all persuasions, political parties, and philosophies have awakened...
National
In “How to Convince Americans to Abolish the Death Penalty,” Amherst College Professor Austin Sarat asserts “important lessons about how abolitionists can be successful around...
Opinion
Violence can and does occur anywhere at any time to anyone. While our current mass shooting epidemic has thrust this fact of being alive...
Opinion
As a full-time freelance writer – having transitioned from law practice at midlife, accursed with all the selfish, self-doubting sensibilities that kind of crisis...
Opinion
Recently, the appalling spectacle of a black man condemned by a Georgia jury, a jury that included a racist bigot, reentered the American consciousness;...
Opinion
Giving a speech at Georgetown University, late Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., said: “[T]he Constitution is a sublime oration on the dignity of man.”...
Opinion
Over 60 years ago, Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote that “[t]he basic concept underlying the Eighth Amendment is nothing less than the...
