Infrastructure Shelby: FAA grants Alabama $4.5 million for airport infrastructure upgrades The seven grants were awarded to three local airports in Alabama, amounting to $4,505,710. StaffOctober 1, 2021
State National Drive Electric Week EVent set for Pepper Place in Birmingham Saturday Visitors to Pepper Place on Saturday can talk to EV owners and kick the tires on a selection of EVs. StaffOctober 1, 2021
Opinion Opinion | Manufacturing Day: Nothing happens without manufacturing "Here in Alabama, 13 percent of our employment is manufacturing and produces 17 percent of our state economic output." Maury D. GastonOctober 1, 2021
Legislature Alabama Senate committee approves $400 million in COVID funds for new prisons Each of the bills was passed on to the Rules Committee, then on to the Senate for consideration on Friday. John H. GlennSeptember 30, 2021
Featured Opinion Opinion | Chief Justice Tom Parker was right about open records law "I, much to my surprise, agree with Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Parker, perhaps the court’s most conservative jurist." David PersonSeptember 30, 2021
Legislature Protest over use of COVID funds for prisons held outside Statehouse A group of protestors — many parents, siblings, or children of incarcerated individuals — demonstrated outside the Statehouse Wednesday afternoon. John H. GlennSeptember 30, 2021
Legislature Alabama House passes prison bid, including $400 million in COVID aid, limited reforms Three prison construction bills and one sentencing reform bill head to the Senate on Thursday. A second reform bill was killed by Republican opposition. Eddie BurkhalterSeptember 30, 2021
Opinion Opinion | A California solution to an Alabama problem? "In the early 2000s, California had a prison crisis that was analogous to what we're seeing in Alabama." Christopher EnglandSeptember 30, 2021
Legislature Alternate prison construction bill emerges to create smaller capacity facilities The bill, submitted Tuesday, would create two new correctional facilities within Elmore and Escambia counties, each holding up to 3,000 people. John H. GlennSeptember 30, 2021
State Activist coalition will hold its own redistricting public hearing on Oct. 13 Group members criticized the Committee on Reapportionment hearings as inaccessible to the public. Micah DanneySeptember 30, 2021