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High-speed broadband internet emerges as critical quality of life issue in Alabama

After wrestling with a public health emergency over the past months, Alabama consumers and businesses have learned that good, high quality and fast broadband...

Georgia Senate run-off races important to the nation and the state of Alabama

As the nation watches the aftermath of the presidential election unfold, the other unfinished business is what happens in the United States Senate. Based on...

The best way to fight COVID?

Governments have used nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPI), or lockdowns, to contain COVID-19. But do NPI protect public health overall? A group of medical experts recently...

Will Sellers: In defense of the Electoral College

I came of age politically with the 1968 presidential election. Alabama Governor George Wallace was running as an independent against Richard Nixon and Hubert...

As citizens, we must expect less from government and more from ourselves

I have the honor of leading the Alabama Policy Institute, a non-partisan, non-profit educational and research institution which has championed free markets, limited government...

Byrne: After the election — One nation under God

I’ll never forget sitting in the U.S. House Chamber in January of 2017 watching the counting of the Electoral College votes from the 2016...

The ride of a lifetime

Growing up off Dauphin Island Parkway in Mobile, love and support were in large supply for Jaysum Hunter even if money was not. But...

Roby: COVID-19 will not shake our democracy

Election Day is here, and it’s safe to say that this year’s election looks quite different than those of the past. As we continue...

Setting the record straight on Baldwin County’s toll fallacies

Baldwin County voters will head to the polls in just a matter of days to cast their vote on a full ballot, including several...

Rejecting the Joe Biden energy plan and the Green New Deal

Energy is a resource that we cannot ignore. It is a crucial part of our everyday lives in America. When we flip the lights...

Alabama can help stop Democrats’ radical immigration agenda

The Democrats' radical immigration agenda poses an existential threat to the United States. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris support amnesty, citizenship, and public benefits for...

Air superiority then, space superiority now — The Battle of Britain 80 years hence

Eighty years ago this week, hurricane season ended when the Royal Air Force won the Battle of Britain by stopping the Nazi war machine...

More time needed to get Census right in Alabama

This year has been filled with challenges for all of us. Ever since the U.S. was struck by an unprecedented pandemic, we have dealt...

Wiring rural Alabama: This time, let’s do it right

COVID-19 has upended our economy and educational system and made high-speed internet more indispensable than ever for all Alabamians. We have an urgent need...

Byrne: Let’s talk about tolls — Why we should support Local Amendment 2

Baldwin County voters will soon head to the polls to cast their vote for president, Congress, some statewide offices and a few proposed amendments....

Changing lanes on the Alabama Workforce Superhighway

Hello friends and welcome back to the Alabama Workforce Superhighway! Our last stop was the AlabamaWorks Virtual Workforce Conference in September. The conference gave us...

Byrne: Taking a vaccine seriously

Since COVID-19 started to bare down on the U.S. in March we have been told that the ultimate solution would be an effective vaccine...

Waiting on the Big Tech world to change

Credit where credit is due. Singer-songwriter John Mayer nailed it with one particular line from his hit song “Waiting On the World to Change.”...

CJ Pearson: Black votes, not lives, matter to Democrats

Black lives don’t matter to Democrats. Black votes do. And even then, only in election years. Over the past 80 years, Democrats like Senator Doug...

Steve Flowers: Why a vote for Doug Jones is a vote against the state of Alabama

Our 2020 presidential election is less than two weeks away. We Americans will either elect Republican Donald Trump for another four-year term or Democrat...

Dr. Daniel Sutter: A critical election

Americans face a crucial choice during and after this November’s presidential election. Perhaps more significant than the contest between Donald Trump and Joe Biden...

Rep. Martha Roby: Be sure to dispose of unused drugs

While the news cycle is currently centered around the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, it is important we remember and shed light on other potentially devastating...

America needs an impartial national media

While I am blessed to currently serve in the Alabama House of Representatives, there are times I sense the old journalist within rising to...

Byrne: FEMA’s Hurricane Sally response

Most people in Alabama have heard of FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Administration. Its name is a little misleading because emergencies by their nature...