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Alabama Political Reporter
- Elections
- Governor
Gov. Ivey announces district judgeship and sheriff appointments
Gov. Ivey officially launches public safety package
Analysis | Gov. Kay Ivey’s State of the State address: Alabama’s future, on her terms
Gov. Ivey calls for legislation banning smart phone use in Alabama public schools
A full transcript of Gov. Ivey’s 2025 State of the State address
- Legislature
House passes bill defining gender terms after limiting debate
Cost for Alabama’s mega-prison plan swells again
House Health Committee approves three bills, including “What is a Woman Act”
Bills on regulations and public notices approved by Senate committee
Legislation changing veterans board, commissioner held over after lengthy discussion
- Economy
Annual Alabama Economic and Real Estate Report 2024
Alabama’s broadband expansion: A national model for rural connectivity
Alabama Realtors release December Alabama Economic and Real Estate Report
Workers overwhelmingly vote to unionize at Tuscaloosa chemical plant
Small businesses struggle to fill job openings as labor market remains tight
- National
Rep. Sewell to convene Emergency Telephone Town Hall
Sen. Britt’s “Illegal Red Snapper and Tuna Enforcement Act” passes Senate committee
Co-founder of Stand Up Mobile speaks on upcoming 2nd Congressional District trial
Rep. Sewell, House Dems introduce bill to stop Musk’s access to private information
Rep. Strong promotes Ella Sullins to Chief of Staff
- Education
Public Charter School Commission ensuring schools fit anti-DEI law
Sid J. Trant appointed to UA System chancellor
Alabama climbs in national reading, math rankings
AFP-Alabama applauds the opening of Education Savings Accounts applications
Alabama considers new education funding models to address inequalities
- Health
Jackson Hospital files for bankruptcy, state lawmakers speak out in support
U.S. Senator Katie Britt continues fight to improve rural obstetrics care
Program seeks to improve youth mental health care with federal funds
Tuberville backs RFK Jr. for Secretary of Health and Human Services
Justice Department finds Alabama illegally segregates children with physical disabilities
- Opinion
Opinion | SB132 is a useless ban that creates crime instead of fighting it
Opinion | America can no longer identify the bad guys
Opinion | Politicians sacrifice transgender youth in a devil’s bargain
Opinion | Refusing to license, regulate gambling, Alabama is hurting itself, not crooks
Opinion | Alabama School for Math and Science: A proven winner for Alabama
Legislature
Bills changing unemployment requirements, imposing the death penalty and requiring parental consent for vaccines passed the House on Tuesday.
Infrastructure
While these bills are framed as an economic boost for the logging industry, the long-term consequences for Alabama’s roads, bridges, and public safety are...
Legislature
The bill, now just a signature away from becoming law, would exclude transgender women from the definition of "woman."
Legislature
Lawmakers on Wednesday presented legislation that would allow the state to borrow an additional $500 million to build two prisons, bringing the total to...
Legislature
The bill's sponsor, Sen. April Weaver, R-Brierfield, said that the legislation is "based on fundamental truths that are as old as the Book of...
Featured Opinion
Let’s not make “Bad Ideas” and “Even Worse Ideas” official state policy.
Legislature
A number of added amendments led lawmakers to hold over a bill that would make the Veterans Affairs commissioner a governor's cabinet position.
Education
The aims to ensure APCSC schools are in line with recent state legislation, including bans on DEI offices and "divisive concepts."
Featured Opinion
We seem to have lost the ability in America to identify the bad guys.
Featured Opinion
Instead of thoughtful debate, reactionary laws are silencing discussion, weaponizing gender to scapegoat transgender people, strip freedoms, and enforce political control.
Featured Opinion
Unregulated gaming accounts for most fraud and abuse in sports wagering and other gaming activities. Alabama isn't helping.
Opinion
If ever there were a sound investment for Alabama’s future, surely this is it.
National
The U.S. Senate voted in favor of passage of the conference committee version of H.R. 2, the 2018 Farm Bill. Both Sens. Richard Shelby...
Economy
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey was in Andalusia at the Shaw Industries carpet plant. The Shaw Industries Group, Inc. announced that is investing $250 million...
National
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein visited Huntsville Tuesday to tour facilities at Redstone Arsenal including the FBI’s Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center (TEDAC), the...
Aerospace and Defense
NASA announced Monday that its Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft has already discovered water locked inside the clays that make...
Opinion
The elections of November 6th are over, and now, in Washington and in Montgomery legislators again take up the task of governing. As the...
Courts
The Alabama Department of Corrections could be held in more legal peril for failing to meet multiple deadlines for required mental health staffing in...
National
Monday U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-Alabama) joined Senators Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), and Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) in introduced legislation that would end the practice of...
National
Congressman Bradley Byrne, R-Montrose, applauded a new NOAA Fisheries rule to increase the annual catch limits and annual catch targets for the Red Snapper...
News
Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Alabama, announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation will award the city of Decatur a highway infrastructure improvement grant totaling $14,222,671...
