Confederate monuments ‘generally not a voting issue’
Democrat Walt Maddox's latest TV ad is meant to showcase his relatively conservative views on gun control and abortion. But when it comes to Confederate monuments, Maddox draws a line.
Category Archives: Alabama Government
Alabama Is Declared Disaster Area For FEMA Assistance. More Details To Follow
In response to Governor Kay Ivey's request on October 11th, President Donald Trump approved an Emergency Disaster Declaration for the state of Alabama, as a result of Hurricane Michael. The Federal Emergency Management Agency Public Assistance Program will provide assistance under category B to Alabama counties.
Rainbow Wave mostly misses Alabama
Felicia Stewart is a Democrat and one of two members of the LGBTQ community looking to win election to the Alabama Legislature on November 6, 2018. She will face incumbent Rep. David Faulkner, R-Mountain Brook, in what has become a closely-watched legislative contest.
Debate? Most recent governors have been willing
While Kay Ivey is not the first Alabama governor to refuse to debate an election challenger, most of her predecessors over the last two decades have been willing to face off with their opponents. Since 1998, three of the state's four governors took on their challengers in debates.
Editorial: Alabama’s pain from Trump’s terrible tariff proposal
Early Friday, President Trump used Twitter to tout the recent growth of the U.S. economy. "We have accomplished an economic turnaround of HISTORIC proportions!" he tweeted.
FILE – In this June 8, 2018 file photo, Alabama Attorney General…
In this June 8, 2018 file photo, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall speaks during the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Marshall and former Attorney General Troy King face off in Tuesday's Republican runoff in the race for attorney general.
Birmingham NewsRunoffs for US House, state positions on runoff ballot
Only a handful of statewide races are on the ballot in Alabama's runoff election on Tuesday, and all that action is on the Republican side. Most attention nationally will go to the U.S. House race in southeastern Alabama between Rep. Marta Roby and former congressman Bobby Bright.
Phillip Tutor: President Trump’s Alabama slammer
Standing before a portrait of George Washington, President Donald Trump announces about $60 billion worth of annual tariffs on Chinese imports, at the White House in Washington, March 22, 2018. If President Trump loves Alabama, which he says he does, and if Alabamians by and large love him back, why then is he kicking us in the shins? This isn't about immigration.
A day on the ground with U.S. Sen. Doug Jones
Doug Jones won the Alabama Senate election Tuesday, defeating Republican candidate Roy Moore to become the first Democratic candidate to win a Senate race since the 1990s. Kirsten Fiscus / The Anniston Star Doug Jones won the Alabama Senate election Tuesday, defeating Republican candidate Roy Moore to become the first Democratic candidate to win a Senate race since the 1990s.
Alabama appeals order to make execution information public
Alabama is appealing a federal judge's order to make the state's lethal injection procedures public and to unseal other court records about an aborted execution in the state. Chief District Judge Karon O. Bowdre on Thursday stayed her order to make the protocol and sealed hearing transcripts public as the Department of Corrections appeals.
Alabama death row inmate found dead inside cell
The Alabama Department of Corrections said 57-year-old Jeffrey Lynn Borden was found hanging by a bed sheet in his cell during a security check at 2:30 a.m. He was pronounced dead at 3 a.m., a prison spokesman said. Borden was convicted of killing his estranged wife, Cheryl Borden, and her father, Roland Harris, in Jefferson County in 1993.
Roy Moore Redux: Alabama Republicans Are About To Nominate An Atrocious Candidate
"The people of Alabama are great, and the Republicans will have another shot at this seat in a very short period of time. It never ends!" - President Donald Trump, December 12, 2018 With these statements following the calamitous U.S. Senate loss still reverberating uncomfortably, Alabama Republicans are facing the very real prospect of now losing a statewide office on the back of an inappropriate, distressing, distasteful candidate.
Abortion, Ten Commandments on Alabama’s ballot in November
Alabama voters will decide this November whether the state will become anti-abortion and will allow the Ten Commandments to be displayed on state property such as courts and schools. The two proposed constitutional amendments, passed by lawmakers during this year's legislative session, will appear as referendums on the general-election ballot.
Alabama inmate becomes oldest executed in US modern times
This photo provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows Walter Leroy Moody. A federal appeals court has rejected the death row inmate's argument that Moody must serve out his federal sentence before Alabama can put him to death for the 1989 killing of a federal judge.
Man, 83, set to be executed for judge’s mail-bomb slaying
This photo provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows Walter Leroy Moody.
AL lawmaker, lobbyist, healthcare CEO arrested by FBI
Longtime Alabama Rep. Jack Williams, 60, former state GOP Chairman Marty Connors, 61, and Trina Healthcare CEO Ford Gilbert, 70, were arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The United States Postal Inspection Service investigated the case with the assistance of the FBI.
Lawyer: Alabama won’t try again to kill inmate who survived February execution attempt
A settlement has been reached in Doyle Hamm's case, meaning the state will not pursue another execution date The state of Alabama has agreed to not set any more execution dates for an inmate who survived his February execution attempt after officials couldn't start his IV before midnight. According to a press release from Doyle Lee Hamm's lawyer, Bernard Harcourt, he and lawyers from the Alabama Attorney General's Office entered into a confidential settlement agreement Monday that resolves all pending litigation in both federal and state courts regarding Hamm's execution.
Alabama voters to face Ten Commandments ballot proposal
Alabama voters will face the choice of whether to allow the Ten Commandments to be displayed on state property such as at schools under a ballot proposal for the November election. The Alabama House of Representatives passed a constitutional amendment ballot provision 66-19 on Thursday.
In steel country, rumblings of a political earthquake: Dems poised to win again
Deep in the heart of rust-belt Trump country, in a congressional district where Democrats didn't even bother running a candidate in recent elections, and were clobbered by 28 percentage points the last time they tried competing, you could hear the rumblings of a potential political earthquake. Democrats appear likely to have won a squeaker in a special election outside Pittsburgh, with votes still being counted overnight.
European Central Bank says Latvia’s ABLV failing, to wind up
U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has changed a proposed overhaul of his department with a new organizational map that more closely follows state lines instead of the natural boundaries he initially proposed. U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has changed a proposed overhaul of his department with a new organizational map that more closely follows state lines instead of the natural boundaries he initially proposed.