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By Chip Brownlee Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY — Alabama House Majority Leader Micky Hammon, R-Decatur, survived a vote of confidence and will continue as the...
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- Elections
Opinion | When faith becomes exclusion in public life
McCaney pledged no dark money before sharing attack ad
Committee OKs state Senate special primary bill, drawing public’s opposition
Opinion | Alabama Republicans are trying to steal your voting power. Fight like hell!
Senate candidate Dakarai Larriett attacks primary opponent over Republican voting record
- Governor
Advocacy orgs deride special session to delay primary for new maps
Gov. Ivey awards grants in support of sexual assault victims
Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner John Hamm retires
Gov. Ivey awards funding for programs assisting victims of domestic violence, sexual assault
Gov. Ivey awards funds to south Alabama organizations assisting victims
- Legislature
Full exchange undercuts claims Ledbetter called for ending 14th Amendment
ACLU vows to take Alabama to court over special session bills
Terri Sewell condemns Alabama redistricting election law
Committee OKs state Senate special primary bill, drawing public’s opposition
House advances bill to provide special elections in case court allows old Congressional maps
- Economy
- National
- Education
Gov. Ivey introduces another CHOOSE Act family
Emmett Till exhibit opens at Civil Rights Memorial Center
Figures unveils rural bill package focused on health, land-grant universities
UAB professors receive patent for lens that could slow myopia progression in children, young adults
Stillman announces Magic Johnson as 150th anniversary commencement speaker
- Health
Marilyn Lands talks contraception, IVF legislation, reelection bid
Rep. Aderholt applauds new Rural Hospital Provider Assistance Program
UAB professors receive patent for lens that could slow myopia progression in children, young adults
Free healthcare clinic served more than 465 patients in Montgomery
Opinion | Are we eating ourselves to death?
- Opinion
Opinion | When faith becomes exclusion in public life
Opinion | Don’t fall for the GOP spin on the Supreme Court’s redistricting ruling
Opinion | Why does Rep. Ernie Yarbrough hold such contempt for public education?
Opinion | Mike Ball: The vanishing home of the moderate conservative
Opinion | Alabama Republicans are trying to steal your voting power. Fight like hell!
Legislature
Speaker says remarks were misconstrued during discussion of Alabama’s congressional map litigation now moving toward Supreme Court review.
Elections
Wes Allen’s refusal to visit a mosque or synagogue reveals a troubling shift in how politics defines civic belonging.
Special Session
The bills already face challenges in federal court as a federal court denied the state's motion to lift its injunction.
Opinion
Republicans just spent a solid week lying to you about the recent Supreme Court decision and Alabama's voting maps.
Opinion
The column argued Yarbrough’s relentless attacks on schools and teachers looked less like policy differences and more like a personal crusade.
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.
The Voice of Alabama Politics
Alabama’s redistricting battles, Freedom Riders legacy and emerging political shifts reveal deeper struggles over power, identity and representation.
Courts
Three-judge panel rejects Wes Allen’s emergency request, saying only the Supreme Court can decide Alabama’s congressional map dispute now.
Elections
Campaign finance records show overlapping payments among Alabama Values PAC, Farm PAC and an obscure Wyoming firm tied to GOP attacks.
Prisons
Lawmakers paused an ADOC contract until questions about the canceled health contract, the emergency NaphCare deal, and oversight concerns could be answered
Elections
They wouldn’t be trying so hard to take your voting power away unless they were scared to death you were going to use it.
Featured Opinion
The death of racism has been greatly exaggerated.
Elections
The Supreme Court's recent opinion in a Louisiana voting case requires that states governed by racists at least try to mask their racism.
Opinion
I can think of nobody more divisive, or anyone who revels more in the heat of political fires, than Donald Trump.
Featured Opinion
By Josh Moon Alabama Political Reporter The dumbest, most obvious payoff I ever heard of as a reporter happened in 2000. I was just...
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By Chip Brownlee Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY — A Senate Bill given a favorable report in committee on Wednesday would dramatically increase penalties for trafficking...
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By Chip Brownlee Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY — This year marks the 52nd Anniversary of Bloody Sunday and the Selma-to-Montgomery March and organizers are...
Featured Opinion
By Sam McLure Alabama Political Report Have you met the man who wears his underwear on his head? This may sound too absurd for...
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By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Wednesday, February 14, 2017, US Representative Bradley Byrne (R-Montrose) announced that he voted in favor of overturning an...
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By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Wednesday, February 15, 2017, the Alabama House State Government Committee gave a favorable report to House Bill 72...
Opinion
By Deborah Love Justice Brandeis wrote, “the right to privacy is the right to be left alone.” Privacy is an essential aspect of a...
News
By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Wednesday, February 15, 2017, the office of Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill (R) confirmed that the special...
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By Josh Moon Alabama Political Reporter There was a rare show of bipartisanship during Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee meeting, and even rarer step taken...