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Yesterday, the Alabama House passed HB314, a bill that would criminalize abortion in Alabama. While the legislation will be tied up in federal courts...
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- Legislature
Speaker announces changes, appointments in House committee structure
Legislative committees set up ARPA funding for Tuesday vote
Senate committee stalls bill seeking elimination of occupational tax
Remaining ARPA funds go to broadband, health care, sewage, water treatment
Alabama House passes repeal bill for “restrictive” NIL law for student-athletes
- Opinion
Opinion | Truth is back to bite Mike Durant
Opinion | Southern Research investing in future of Birmingham
Opinion | Early education pilot showing positive results for children across Alabama
Opinion | The pandering MLK quotes are coming
Opinion | It’s past time to stop celebrating Robert E. Lee on MLK Day
- National
The Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act dies on Senate floor
Congressman Jerry Carl announces key D.C. staff change
U.S. Supreme Court blocks vaccine mandate for large businesses
John Lewis Voting Rights Act passes in combined package with Freedom to Vote Act
Doug Jones calls for building “pro-democracy coalition”
- Education
New data shows children using Waterford Upstart are exceeding mastery of subjects
Birmingham Promise scholarship applications now open for class of 2022
Biden administration extends student loan forbearance
University of Alabama Faculty Senate formally opposes ban of Critical Race Theory
AASB announces new leadership on the board of directors
- Health
UAB epidemiologist: Alabama’s COVID surge could last for several more weeks
Alabama’s child COVID hospitalizations hit another record, four on ventilators
U.S. government to launch free COVID test website Wednesday
Alabama setting record numbers of child COVID hospitalizations
Alabama has lowest average total single premium, according to government report
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Featured Opinion
Two sessions ago, in a legislative committee meeting of some sorts, there was — believe it or not — a meaningful and sincere conversation...
Featured Opinion
Forget Veteran’s Day. We need a Veteran’s Month. Every year, as November 11 rolls around, and the parades start slowly marching and the wreaths...
Featured Opinion
There was no blue wave in Alabama. There was no blue ripple in Alabama. There were only a lot of blue Democrats left wondering...
Featured Opinion
My mother, Patricia Ann Harper Kennedy, has been dead more than 21 years now. She died young, in 1997. She had cancer. She did...
Elections
It’s one of the oddest, and most embarrassing, cases of mistaken identity in recent Alabama political history. According to recent polling, James Bonner is...
Opinion
In politics, as in life, it’s important to be honest with ourselves and with the people we serve. In the last several years, we...
News
By Susan Britt Alabama Political Reporter OPELIKA—Judge Jacob Walker, III, officially filed Michael G. Hubbard’s sentence with Alacourt on Wednesday. Hubbard was found guilty...
