This Matters with Bill Britt
Alexander and Eliza Hamilton’s legacies remind us that leadership must be judged by the lives it shapes for generations afterward.
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Alabama Political Reporter
- Elections
Opinion | Alabama should expect better—and demand it
Huntsville House candidate fires back at Republican opponent’s attack on trans identity
Booker, Sewell join Figures rally in Montgomery as Election Day nears
Opinion | Tuberville’s “Playbook” is ambitious but avoids divisive rhetoric
NFIB backs Tuberville, continuing streak of GOP endorsements
- Governor
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- National
Figures backs Alabama disaster declaration after Hurricane Isaias
Sen. Britt touts $650,000 secured for St. Clair County law enforcement
Akron’s Post Office to remain open, Sewell says
Britt secures $128,000 for new city of Montevallo police patrol cars
Britt celebrates President Trump’s signing of the Clergy Act
- Education
Ivey awards $27 million to Auburn, Alabama School of Healthcare Sciences
Alabama’s specialty schools have opened admission
Governor: CHOOSE Act helps student stay at school
University of Alabama completes record $2.1 billion fundraising campaign
Troy University Everett Symposium focuses on ethical AI use
- Health
UAB Hospital CEO Brenda Carlisle to retire this year
UAB to dedicate $192 million Shelby Biosciences Research Building
HHS declares public health emergency in Alabama after Hurricane Isaias
Seniors say Medicare Advantage cuts could influence their votes
Alabama health care concerns rise as rural hospitals struggle
- Opinion
leadership stories
Featured Opinion
America’s unease runs deeper than politics: A nation that forgets what deserves admiration eventually forgets why power exists at all.
This Matters with Bill Britt
Certainty can feel like strength, but wisdom requires humility, restraint and the courage to ask what truth demands next.
This Matters with Bill Britt
Power does not merely test character; it can reshape people until performance becomes identity and ambition consumes conscience.
This Matters with Bill Britt
In this edition of This Matters, Bill Britt explores how leaders who stop listening to dissent risk losing touch with reality—and the truth itself.
This Matters with Bill Britt
When power abandons limits, it begins defining truth itself, shifting society from accountability toward authority and leaving fewer checks to restrain it.
Featured Opinion
When politics becomes performance, serious problems go unaddressed. And in Alabama, the consequences are already shaping everyday lives across the state.
This Matters with Bill Britt
Leadership used to be about responsibility. Now it often looks like a performance.
Opinion
Ledbetter is poised and well positioned to preside as speaker of the House for the next quadrennium and probably for years after that.
Featured Opinion
As Ivey exits office, Alabama confronts whether voters value competence and steadiness or surrender governance to spectacle and partisan habit.