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Alabama has the fifth-highest teen pregnancy rate in the country. More fact-based sex ed is exactly what we need.
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Alabama Political Reporter
- Elections
- Governor
- Legislature
Report: One in six state bills makes it easier to arrest, convict and sentence
Bill banning “divisive concepts” expected to return in upcoming session
Legislators Ledbetter, Orr call for excess funds to go toward tax rebate
Sen. Randy Price, wife arrested for loose cattle
Alabama Democratic Party reaffirms support for removal of state grocery tax
- Economy
Expert tells Alabama wage gap task force how to strengthen Equal Pay Act
Online job ads in August up 34.6 percent from last year
Alabama’s August unemployment rate holds steady at 2.6 percent
Port of Mobile headed for busiest year on record
Ivey projects tourism to generate $24 billion in revenue by year’s end
- National
Pringle says Legislature followed the law in drawing of Congressional district lines
Sewell announces millions in workforce development funding for Birmingham, Bessemer
Alabama men captured while fighting in Ukraine return home
Sewell to announce workforce development funding for Birmingham, Bessemer
Rep. Sewell votes for major public safety legislation
- Education
Rep. Sewell to host first virtual grants workshop for scholarships, higher education
Alabama superintendent: “Don’t Say Gay” enforcement starts at local school boards
Alabama Commission on Higher Education addresses student loan forgiveness
Alabama Board of Education codifies “Don’t Say Gay” law
Board of Education moves toward changing graduation requirements
- Health
UAB doctor: New boosters important despite claims that “pandemic is over”
COVID positivity rate falls into single digits, hospitalizations decline
UAB extends asymptomatic testing program for public, private schools
Alabama’s COVID positivity rate, hospitalizations drop considerably
Companies begin requesting applications for medical marijuana licenses
- Opinion
Opinion | Religious liberty in Alabama: Pretty good, could be better
Opinion | There’s nothing “radical” about quality sex education
Opinion | A warning to the Lee County bigot
Opinion | New fiscal year begins, teachers and state employees looking good
Opinion | The vilification and treatment of migrants is disgusting
Featured Opinion
Black people ain’t having it. And plenty of white folks aren’t either.
Featured Opinion
We all know it's a political stunt to trick migrants into flying to other cities. That doesn't make it OK, or anything less than...
Featured Opinion
Alabama’s tax system, overall, is among the most regressive tax systems in the nation.
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It’s simply not the government’s place to dictate cultural morays and niceties.
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In recent Twitter posts and radio interviews, Brooks suggested Donald Trump is dishonest and says Republicans are as bad as Democrats.
Featured Opinion
He is spending his time chasing right-wing media hits by any means necessary.
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We continue to elect people based on nothing more than party affiliation, and the resulting stupidity is absolutely killing us.
Featured Opinion
The Minnesota judge in 1972 did something extraordinary by sentencing non-violent offenders to community service.
Featured Opinion
Last week, the justices overruled one of its own opinions from 20 years ago, and basically rewrote Alabama law as it did so.
