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- Legislature
Chip Brown pre-files bill to provide tax cuts to Gulf Coast commercial fishermen
Alabama House minority leader: No support for new prisons without other reforms
Ivey tells lawmakers she’ll set special session for prison construction
Chris Elliott named 2021 Legislator of the Year by the Alabama Forestry Association
League of Women Voters oppose dividing counties in redistricting
- Opinion
- National
Marshall tells Biden not to proceed with COVID vaccine rules
State prosecutors urge court to reject motion for Mike Hubbard’s early release
Sewell votes to advance Biden’s Build Back Better plan out of committee
Tuberville says that Biden “defeated our troops” in Afghanistan
Moore celebrates as Biden withdraws Chipman nomination
- Education
Vestavia City Schools reverses mask mandate
Tuberville praises HBCUs in Senate floor speech
Search for a new Alabama A&M president divides officials and alumni
First master’s degree registered apprenticeship with an HBCU established in America
ASU partners with Apple, Tennessee State University to become community center
- Health
UAB doctors talk COVID, Pfizer’s vaccine safe and effective for 5-11 year olds
Alabama Hospital Association: Federal COVID aid needed to help struggling hospitals
Alabama State Health Officer: More deaths than births in 2020
One in 390 Alabamians have died of COVID-19
Anniston hospital exhausts supply of COVID monoclonal antibody treatment
Featured Opinion
"From the start of the pandemic, nearly every prediction and every piece of advice from most doctors and scientists have been spot on."
Elections
Lindell made the comments in a video posted to his website but provided no proof to back his claims.
Elections
SD12 is currently represented by former Senate Pro Tem Del Marsh, R-Anniston, who is not running for re-election.
Education
The system has reverted to its optional mask policy for staff, visitors and students, only three weeks after enacting a mask mandate
Legislature
Bait, equipment and materials used by the commercial fishing industry would be exempt from both sales and use taxes under Brown’s legislation.
Legislature
The DOJ says new prisons alone won't solve Alabama's crisis. Republicans need Democratic support to pass a prison construction bill.
State
The Nonviolent Medicaid Army will hold simultaneous candlelight vigils for Medicaid expansion at various churches in five Alabama cities.
State
The historically Black university removed former Gov. Bibb Graves' name last year due to his ties to the KKK.
Featured Opinion
"We’ve been mandating vaccines for public health reasons forever."
Health
COVID hospitalizations are down, but new daily cases remain high, and two hospitals are out of monoclonal antibody treatments.
Featured Opinion
"Alabama needs fearless leadership right now, not pandering to denial and defiance."
Featured Opinion
"It will be hard to not increase the supermajority Republican control of the Alabama Senate and House of Representatives."
Featured Opinion
"Marshall recited the typical GOP rhetoric about Biden's vaccine plan. But when facts were introduced, the tone changed."
Opinion
"As long as I am governor, Alabama will continue forging a path for women and the unborn."
Featured Opinion
"We've been mandating vaccines for decades in this country for infants and toddlers. When will the adults grow up?"
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Dear Editor, “Tea partiers are disgruntled social conservatives aiming to take control of the Republican Party. Independents are the antiparty force, trying to restructure...
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Dear Editor, Suboptimal. That’s a heavy-duty word being used by some political pundits these days to describe the “less than optimal” performance of the...
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Dear Editor, On June 1, 2011 Alabama House Bill 425 was signed into law by Governor Robert Bentley. This Bill moved the Alabama Primary...
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Dear Editor, Republicans were given a majority in Montgomery in November 2010. They were put there by the citizens of Alabama to do the...
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Staff Report BIRMINGHAM, AL – Alabama Republican Party Chairman Bill Armistead released the following statement regarding the death of Party leader, Melba Peters of...
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Staff Report A half-dozen religious leaders this morning delivered a letter to Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley’s office asking him in the spirit of the...
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Staff Report HUNTSVILLE, Alabama — Former Democratic state Sen. Tom Butler’s attempt to resurrect his political career as a Republican has come to an...
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Staff Report MONTGOMERY | A bill prefiled for the 2012 session of the Legislature would modify the state’s workers’ compensation law to increase payments...
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Staff Report CULLMAN — Three sheriffs, local legislators, pharmaceutical lobbyists and their clients, judges and prosecutors, local pharmacists and at least one Cullman physician...
