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Several prominent Alabama leaders denounced a recent editorial written by Goodloe Sutton, editor of The Democrat-Reporter, urging the Ku Klux Klan to ride again...
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Alabama Political Reporter
- Elections
Analysis | Alabama GOP attorney general primary turns costly, bitter and unsettled
Alabama Realtors PAC announces 2026 House, Senate endorsements
Opinion | Very few open or contested state House races
Voting rights experts call for Congressional action at hearing hosted by Rep. Sewell
Opinion | Democratic debates have been an embarrassment. Doug Jones should keep avoiding them
- 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
Alabama labor groups host Workers’ Week of Action kickoff
Opinion | Alabama takes a stand for small business fairness
Alabama spring home sales rise, but trail last year
Innovate Alabama launches $15M fund to retain, scale early-stage companies
Small business optimism falls as oil prices fuel uncertainty
- 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 | 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
Opinion | Democratic debates have been an embarrassment. Doug Jones should keep avoiding them
Opinion | Justice and politics cannot serve the same master
Elections
Millions have been spent and attacks are intensifying, but most Republican voters remain undecided. Will that leave an opening for a quieter candidate?
Courts
The filings argued federal officials misstated the group’s work with law enforcement and may have tainted both the indictment and the case.
Infrastructure
After hearing both praise and criticism of the proposed ordinance, council members elected to take more time to weigh the measure.
Local news
The money will back neighborhood groups offering mentoring, workforce help and family support to court-involved and high-risk Birmingham youth.
Opinion
The railroad system will take no mercy on our vulnerable farmers. When rates rise, they will have no choice but to absorb higher costs.
Elections
There will be a strong continuity of leadership in the House of Representatives between this quadrennium and the next.
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.
Education
Interactive displays retrace Emmett Till’s killing and his mother’s activism that helped galvanize the modern civil rights movement.
News
Court filings and hospital bankruptcy records placed the Georgia hopeful at the center of separate legal and financial disputes in two states.
Prisons
A state audit found some compliance failures, missing records, weak controls and reporting lapses in Alabama Department of Corrections financial practices.
Elections
Doug Jones has declined to debate the other Democratic candidates for governor. It's the right decision. Because his absence is exactly the proper message.
Opinion
Lady Justice has long stood as the symbol of an ethical judicial system. But if she is not strong, politics will overwhelm her.
Featured Opinion
In the end, stability is something we must choose to maintain.
Opinion
In short, when workers do well, Alabama does well.
Governor
Gov. Kay Ivey granted a total of $386,207 to the Department of Forensic Sciences to help fight the use of opioids and other illegal...
News
Tuesday, the ACLU of Alabama, Alabama NAACP, and the family of E.J. Bradford represented by the Ben Crump Law Firm announced that they were...
National
U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Huntsville, joined 64 House colleagues in sending a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue supporting work requirements for able-bodied...
Featured Opinion
There has been a lot of talk about the advancement of women in politics over the past year. It has been suggested that more...
News
Warning: This story quotes offensive language. The same editor who penned an editorial calling for the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan and elaborated on...
Featured Opinion
Goodloe Sutton is not a racist. That might seem impossible considering Sutton, the publisher of the Democrat-Reporter newspaper in Linden, just wrote an editorial...
Governor
Friday, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey addressed the Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama’s annual Albert Brewer annual meeting at the Harbert Center in Birmingham....
National
Sunday, former Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe granted an interview to CBS News’ “60 Minutes.” McCabe said that after President Donald Trump fired FBI...
Education
If you live anywhere in Lee County, remember to go to the polls to vote on whether or not to reauthorize existing property taxes...