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More belt-tightening is needed in Alabama’s budgets (opinion)

Katherine Robertson -
(This is Part 2 of the Alabama Policy Institute’s 3-part “Budget Basics” series: exploring Alabama’s budget system, the current fiscal climate and related challenges,...

Ala. Dem congressional candidate: Sadaam gassing Iraqis was good for MidEast stability

Cliff Sims -
(Above: audio from Jesse T. Smith radio interview) Jesse T. Smith, The Democratic nominee for Congress in Alabama's 3rd Congressional District hasn't been able to...

Budget Basics: the facts about Alabama’s budget system

Katherine Robertson -
Many taxpayers are familiar with the federal budgeting system, thanks to incessant coverage of budget standoffs, government shutdowns, and increasing national debt. Yet many...

Here’s how Alabama’s senators became major players in the GOP’s efforts to retake the senate

Cliff Sims -
All eyes are on the 35 U.S. Senate seats up for grabs this year. Republicans need to pick up 6 seats to regain the...

If alleged wife beating judge Mark Fuller thought Ala. Republicans would stick with him, he was wrong

Cliff Sims -
U.S. District Judge Mark Fuller, who was appointed to the federal bench in Alabama's Middle District in 2002, was arrested in the early morning...

Alabama Republicans: Preserve welfare for needs, not weed

Cliff Sims -
WASHINGTON -- In 2011, the U.S. House and Senate both passed a bill that granted the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) the...

Shelby: Obama blocking US energy independence with environmental agenda

Cliff Sims -
The Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives plans to vote on Thursday to pass for the second time a package of energy-related...

Brooks doubts Obama’s willingness to ‘do what it takes’ to defeat ISIS

Cliff Sims -
(Above: Lou Dobbs interviews Rep. Mo Brooks) In an appearance on Lou Dobbs' Fox Business Network program Tuesday evening, U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL5) was...

Roby: ‘Domestic abuse can’t be tolerated,’ calls out Alabama federal judge

Cliff Sims -
WASHINGTON -- The plague of domestic violence incidents in American society has captured national attention in recent weeks after the story -- and subsequent...

Byrne: EPA’s senseless regulations are hurting Alabama farmers and foresters

Cliff Sims -
Imagine this: a thunderstorm rolls through Southwest Alabama and causes a small puddle to develop on an Escambia County farm. Under a rule proposed...

Sessions: Zuckerberg, billionaires push for open borders while living in ‘fenced-off estates’

Cliff Sims -
(Above: Sessions speaks on the Senate floor Sept. 12, 2014.) WASHINGTON -- Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) took to the Senate floor Thursday to criticize the...

Handshakes & middle fingers: Alabama & Kentucky House Speakers engage in war of words

Cliff Sims -
During the 2010 election cycle, Alabama Republicans campaigned on a list of promises called the "Handshake With Alabama." The campaign was wildly successful, propelling...

Bentley takes concerns with anti-coal EPA regulations directly to Obama

Cliff Sims -
(Above: Gov. Bentley discusses a revealing conversation he had with EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy) President Obama's executive amnesty plan and the growing threat of the...

Brooks: Help American workers by removing as many illegals as possible from labor pool

Cliff Sims -
WASHINGTON -- Flanked by senators Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and Ted Cruz (R-Tx.) and a host of other conservative lawmakers, Alabama congressman Mo Brooks urged...

Former Bush White House staffer tapped to lead Alabama Policy Institute

Cliff Sims -
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Caleb Crosby has been selected as the new President of the Alabama Policy Institute (API), a Birmingham-based conservative think tank that...

Radio host says Democratic candidate for Ala. governor verbally assaulted, threatened to ‘bury’ him

Cliff Sims -
HOMEWOOD, Ala. -- Parker Griffith, the Democratic Party's nominee for Alabama governor, on Wednesday verbally assaulted and physically threatened conservative talk radio host Matt...

Stunning letter from former AEA chief threatens to plunge teachers’ union into chaos

Cliff Sims -
Imagine if Paul "Bear" Bryant wrote a letter saying the University of Alabama's football program is doomed. That's basically what just happened to the...

Little-known Alabamian named to Politico’s list of 50 people who ‘really matter’ in US politics

Cliff Sims -
Alabama businessman Shaun McCutcheon told Yellowhammer in September of last year that he wanted to “change the world.” With the United States Supreme Court’s...

Roby: 3 things to listen for in Obama’s ISIL speech

U.S. Rep. Martha Roby -
On Wednesday, President Obama will deliver a speech on the Islamic State threat. Americans will be listening carefully, and so will the world. For...

Top political handicappers expect Sessions to craft Federal budget next year

Cliff Sims -
Although they didn't directly mention Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions in their articles this week, famed political handicappers Stu Rothenberg and Charlie Cook were both...

Sessions: Democrats’ executive amnesty plan should send shudders down your spine

Sen. Jeff Sessions -
A development today reported by Politico ought to send shudders down the spine of those who care about our representative system of government. In an article...

Byrne meets with Netanyahu, says Obama ‘must get off the sidelines and start leading’

Cliff Sims -
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-AL1) is currently on his way back to the United States after spending the last ten days...

Alabama Supreme Court sends state legislator’s perjury case to trial

Cliff Sims -
Alabama state representative Barry Moore's effort to have his perjury case dismissed came up short Friday in a final ruling by the state supreme...

Griffith’s lottery rhetoric is absurd, but Bentley’s making it worse by not taking a hard stand (opinion)

Cliff Sims -
In 1999, then-Governor Don Siegelman, lobbied Alabamians as hard as he could to approve a so called “education lottery” for the state of Alabama....
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