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A stylized editorial illustration shows a lone dark figure standing on a red silhouette of Alabama inside a faint circular seal, with a long shadow stretching toward the Alabama Capitol in the distance. A stylized editorial illustration shows a lone dark figure standing on a red silhouette of Alabama inside a faint circular seal, with a long shadow stretching toward the Alabama Capitol in the distance.

Elections

Alabama’s next governor will inherit great power, but character will determine whether that responsibility enlarges or diminishes the person elected.

This Matters with Bill Britt

Faith can guide citizens, but constitutional freedom requires government to protect every conscience without favoring one religion over any other.

Party politics

Before more than 1,200 Republicans, Tuberville teased an undisclosed plan for Alabama while Katie Britt and Bruce Pearl rallied conservatives.

Party politics

Republicans also added closed primaries to the party platform at the meeting.

The Voice of Alabama Politics

August 2, 2026
Data Centers, Closed Primaries, and a Democrat Party Reset

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Economy

If this project truly promises opportunity for Lowndes County, then it should withstand rigorous environmental review, transparent public scrutiny and independent analysis.

Elections

Jones fielded questions on Medicaid expansion, housing and infrastructure as he argued fast-growing north Alabama needed more local control.

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Infrastructure

Alabama’s rural counties carried costs set by distance, not population, leaving bridges, clinics and towns to fail by default.

Prisons

Speakers described medical neglect, violence and secrecy in Alabama prisons as auditors reported resistance from the corrections department.

Prisons

Governor Kay Ivey scheduled Jeffery Lee's September 17 execution by lethal injection after federal courts blocked Alabama's planned nitrogen hypoxia execution.

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Opinion

Congress

Anthony Fauci should be remembered as an honorable public servant who did the best he could. But we live in the dumbest of times.

Opinion

Maybe peace comes from accepting that every intentional life contains both a sense of gratitude and a sense of loss.

Editorial collage showing a border fence beside empty medical scrubs and work shoes, a construction hard hat, farm basket and gloves, and welding gear, symbolizing U.S. immigration and workforce shortages. Editorial collage showing a border fence beside empty medical scrubs and work shoes, a construction hard hat, farm basket and gloves, and welding gear, symbolizing U.S. immigration and workforce shortages.

Featured Opinion

Washington spent decades exploiting immigration politically. Now an aging workforce may force the country to build a system that works.

Featured Opinion

Republicans have no answers for the economy. We know this because they keep talking about transgender people.

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News

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Friday, December 2, 2016, US Representative Bradley Byrne (R-Montrose) said that he is looking forward to working with...

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