Featured Opinion
In the United States, here in Alabama, and in places around the globe, a pattern is emerging. The future is being dragged backward.
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Alabama Political Reporter
- Elections
How will the Supreme Court’s voting rights decision affect Alabama?
NFIB Alabama PAC endorses 78 lawmakers for reelection
Opinion | Ernie Yarbrough fumbles on the goal line—twice
Analysis | Alabama GOP attorney general primary turns costly, bitter and unsettled
Alabama Realtors PAC announces 2026 House, Senate endorsements
- Governor
Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner John Hamm retires
Gov. Ivey awards funding for programs assisting victims of domestic violence, sexual assault
Gov. Ivey awards funds to south Alabama organizations assisting victims
Gov. Kay Ivey is very popular, but will it transfer to her successor?
Gov. Ivey awards three grants to aid domestic violence victims, train law enforcement
- Legislature
- Economy
- National
Voting rights experts call for Congressional action at hearing hosted by Rep. Sewell
Figures unveils rural bill package focused on health, land-grant universities
Sens. Britt, Fetterman discuss operations in Iran, social media regulations
Rep. Sewell to host shadow subcommittee hearing on voting rights
Strong secures postal audit, ZIP code review for North Alabama
- Education
Emmett Till exhibit opens at Civil Rights Memorial Center
Figures unveils rural bill package focused on health, land-grant universities
UAB professors receive patent for lens that could slow myopia progression in children, young adults
Stillman announces Magic Johnson as 150th anniversary commencement speaker
Alabama recognized for pre-K quality for 20th year
- Health
UAB professors receive patent for lens that could slow myopia progression in children, young adults
Free healthcare clinic served more than 465 patients in Montgomery
Opinion | Are we eating ourselves to death?
Judge lets Birmingham water utility end fluoridation
Alabama doctors urge safe drug disposal on Take Back Day
- Opinion
Opinion | Ernie Yarbrough fumbles on the goal line—twice
Opinion | Nobody cares. No, seriously, nobody cares
Opinion | North Alabama deserves better than an $85 billion rail merger
Opinion | Very few open or contested state House races
Opinion | The fight now isn’t left vs. right. It’s forward vs. backward
Featured Opinion
It is not effective governance to simply pass legislation. A better test is how a lawmaker has affected his constituency and the state.
Featured Opinion
Alabama created the nation’s first public TV network, yet political fear and extremist pressure now threaten APT’s future and its PBS partnership.
Featured Opinion
The Epstein files might be a distraction, but they're a distraction from the awful reality Trump has created for 90 percent of the country.
Featured Opinion
Read the unfiltered emails between Epstein and his associates. Consider the actions of Trump. Block out the rhetoric. Then make up your own mind.
Featured Opinion
Once Trump is buried by the Epstein files, is there any chance we might go back to normal in this country?
Featured Opinion
Their courage secures our freedom, but our nation too often forgets its duty to those who bear its burdens.
Featured Opinion
A small act of defiance in Washington reminds us that courage and conscience, not compliance, have always been democracy’s lifeblood.
Featured Opinion
Politicians lie because it works—voters believe them, and media too often repeats the lies instead of calling them out.
Featured Opinion
The first electoral test of the second Trump administration was a bloodbath for Republicans and a ray of hope for America's working class.
Featured Opinion
Alabama’s next governor should rise from the people, not the elites, proving that leadership is earned through service, courage, and conviction.