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Roby: Alabama veterans are getting ‘worst health care service in this entire country’

Elizabeth BeShears -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azMo8Vo_icw (Video Above: Rep. Roby delivers a speech on the House floor) WASHINGTON -- Congresswoman Martha Roby took to the U.S. House floor Wednesday day to...

Alabama Legislature increases transparency, bolsters Open Meetings Law

Katie Lansford -
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The Alabama House on Wednesday passed SB21, sponsored by Senator Cam Ward (R-Alabaster), ensuring the public has access to government and...

Ala. Senate votes to rename Edmund Pettus Bridge, sparking controversy over revising history

Elizabeth BeShears -
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The Alabama Senate on Wednesday approved a resolution to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge, which was famously crossed by civil rights...

Byrne seeks to slash budget of agency responsible for Fast and Furious gun trafficking scheme

Elizabeth BeShears -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHjofC2-tR8 (Video Above: Rep. Bradley Byrne introduces an amendment to cut the ATF by $250 million) WASHINGTON -- Congressman Bradley Byrne (R-AL1) introduced an amendment to...

Alabama should pass the Compact for a Balanced Budget to rein in National Debt (Opinion)

Gerald Allen -
(Image above: A visual illustration of America's debt piled up around the Statue of Liberty. The full visualization can be found here.) There are few...

Alabama’s ObamaCare health insurance exchange prices set to skyrocket

Elizabeth BeShears -
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Alabama health insurance providers who offer plans on the ObamaCare exchange are seeking significant price increases this year, after healthcare costs...

Embattled AEA taken over by national teachers’ union, placed under trusteeship

Elizabeth BeShears -
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Yellowhammer learned Tuesday morning that the Alabama Education Association (AEA), whose precipitous fall from power over the last few years has...

U.S. House passes Byrne’s red snapper fishing reforms, despite Obama veto threat

Elizabeth BeShears -
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. House passed Tuesday reforms to the Magnuson-Stevens Act, including the Strengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act...

Federal judge from Ala. accused of domestic abuse resigns, avoids possible impeachment

Elizabeth BeShears -
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Federal District Judge Mark fuller, who was accused of domestic abuse last fall, delivered his resignation letter to President Obama Friday,...

Ala. leads ‘SEC Primary’ to make the South a major player in the presidential race

Elizabeth BeShears -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odnFOZR_fS8 (Video Above: SECPrimary.com's hype video for the upcoming presidential primary) MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- After Alabama passed its bill moving primaries up to March 1st last...

Alabama Senate Republicans are the only thing between you and a giant tax hike, here’s why

Cliff Sims -
Just over a month after being sworn in for a second term, Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley rolled out the details of his long-rumored $541...

Byrne: It’s time for President Obama to lay out a strategy to defeat ISIL

U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne -
The city of Ramadi is the capital of the Anbar province in Iraq and serves as a strategic location on the Euphrates river. In...

Palmer: EPA’s latest overreach now includes regulating puddles and ditches

Elizabeth BeShears -
WASHINGTON -- Congressman Gary Palmer spoke out this week against the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) latest major regulation, which opponents say is a significant...

Alabama legislature approves Medicaid reform that could save $1.5 billion

Elizabeth BeShears -
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The Alabama House on Thursday unanimously passed major reforms to the state’s Medicaid program that are estimated to save the state...

Indictment: Ala. public employee spent $25k of taxpayer money on strip clubs, online dating

Elizabeth BeShears -
FAYETTE, Ala. -- The former manager of the Fayette water board was reportedly indicted by a grand jury this week for allegedly spending $25,000...

AL legislature passes ‘Gabe’s right to try’ law inspired by boy with rare muscular disease

Elizabeth BeShears -
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The Alabama legislature gave final passage Thursday to the "Gabe's Right to Try" law, inspired by 10-year-old Gabe Griffin, an Alabama...

Roy Moore: Justices who perform same-sex marriages should be impeached

Elizabeth BeShears -
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- During a radio interview last week with Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore called...

Ala. legislature doubles down on Calhoun County liquor tax hike by overriding Bentley’s veto

Elizabeth BeShears -
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Tuesday evening both the Alabama House and Senate voted to override a gubernatorial veto on HB89, a bill which would allow...

Pat Dye: Alabamians should support lottery and gambling expansion plan

Editor -
I have something that has been weighing heavily on my mind and my heart these last few weeks: the Alabama budget crisis. Now, most of...

Liberals attack former Bama player, current Clemson coach Dabo Swinney for Christian views

Elizabeth BeShears -
CLEMSON, South Carolina -- The top Democrat in the South Carolina House has called on Alabama native and current Clemson University head football coach...

Another Alabama county destroys a tax increase proposal at the ballot box

Elizabeth BeShears -
COLBERT COUNTY, Ala. -- 88 percent of voters in Colbert County, Alabama, rejected a proposed tax increase Tuesday, in an astounding outcome some are...

Alabamian spearheads Republican National Committee resolution opposing Obama ‘central planning’

Alabama Free Market Alliance -
PHEONIX, Ari. -- At a recent meeting of the Republican National Committee, Alabama Free Market Alliance Chairman and Republican National Committeeman Paul Reynolds authored...

Alabama Legislature passes Education Budget with major boost to classroom spending

Cliff Sims -
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The Alabama Legislature on Tuesday gave final passage to a $5.9 billion Education Budget, boosting classroom spending with $49.6 million in...

Alabama House votes to ban abortion clinics from opening near schools

Cliff Sims -
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The Alabama House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill that would make it illegal for abortion clinics to set up...
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