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WorkFaith Birmingham already impacting lives, announces first graduates

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A non-profit organization in Houston, TX called WorkFaith Connection set out to create a program that could transform their urban areas by empowering individuals...

Alabama businessman becomes national political rockstar

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The Daily Beast, POLITICO, PolicyMic, USA Today, Huffington Post, New York Times, NPR, Slate, Washington Spectator, Washington Times, Business Insider, Roll Call, The New...

Birmingham’s downtown named one of the country’s 10 best

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Birmingham, Ala.'s downtown has just been named one of the 10 best downtown areas in the entire United States by Livability.com, a popular site...

VOTE: The Tourism Dept. wants to know who makes Alabama’s best BBQ

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Montgomery, Ala. — Thirty-two Alabama barbecue restaurants are competing in the second annual Alabama Barbecue Bracket sponsored by the state tourism department. This year’s...

Legendary musician Charlie Daniels says he hopes ‘something wonderful happens’ to this Ala. senator

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77-year-old Charlie Daniels is a tweeting machine. With over 174,000 followers and having racked up over 31,000 tweets, he's one of Twitter's most prolific...

Pro-Common Core ads flood airwaves in Alabama, nationally

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Pro-Common Core television ads funded by a coalition of business groups including the US Chamber of Commerce and Business Roundtable hit the airwaves nationally...

Roby: Taking on the EPA

U.S. Rep. Martha Roby -
When Alabamians have trouble with the federal government, my job is to step in and try to help. That's exactly what happened when a...

Auburn’s campus named one of the country’s 10 most beautiful (PICS)

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The Auburn University campus has been named one of the country's 10 most beautiful by Profascinate, a blog that seeks to turn Internet-induced procrastination...

Is this kindergartener Alabama’s most effective political activist?

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It has only taken Lillian "Lilli" Coker, 6-year-old kindergartener from Gadsden, Ala., a few days to get over 1,000 Alabamians to sign a petition...

Roby: US Military has been ‘cut to the bone’ by Democrats

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Rep. Martha Roby, R-AL02, today called on Senate Democrats to abandon what she described as a "misguided" plan to divert defense spending to fund...

Popular Alabama radio host Rick Burgess getting active in election year politics

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Rick Burgess and Bill "Bubba" Bussey have spent two decades growing their unlikely media empire by sticking to their down-home brand of humor and...

Alabama native becoming known in D.C. as America’s ‘digital diplomat’

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He was history's first White House Director of Digital Strategy, and now he's becoming known in Washington, D.C. as the US State Department's "digital...

Enviro groups hope wind farm bill dies in Ala. House Commerce Committee

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Several so-called green energy companies and their associated environmental activist groups and lobbyists are hoping that a bill to provide basic oversight over wind...

How does teacher pay in Alabama really stack up?

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Teacher pay has become a major point of contention during the 2014 legislative session. The Alabama Education Association (AEA) has demanded a 6 percent...

Bad news: 28% of Alabamians are obese; Good news: That ain’t nothing compared to Mississippi

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Alabama falls in the middle of the pack when it comes to obesity rates in the United States, according to a new survey by...

Brooks ‘flabbergasted’ Dems want to slash defense funding to hand out aid to Ukraine

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Rep. Mo Brooks, AL-05, is not happy about the idea of dolling out cash to Ukraine and the International Monetary Fund while slashing defense...

Ala. state rep. named to national conservative group’s ‘Emerging Leaders’ list

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GOPAC, a Washington, D.C.-based organization that prides itself on training up the conservative “farm team” around the country, today announced its 2014 Class of...

Waggoner muscles Birmingham Water Works reform through the Ala. senate

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In a legislative session that has been relatively short on controversy, a bill to expand the Birmingham Water Works Board and add members outside...

Common Core compromise is dead, so what went wrong?

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Only days ago it appeared that Sen. Scott Beason, R-Gardnendale, and Sen. Del Marsh, R-Anniston, had reached an agreement to end the Alabama Senate's...

Auburn Conservatives for Tomorrow hosting ‘An Evening with Steve Forbes’

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Auburn Conservatives for Tomorrow (ACT) and Young America’s Foundation will host An Evening with Steve Forbes on Friday, March 21, 2014 at the Auburn...

Alabama’s ‘Highway to Hell’ named one of the world’s most dangerous roads

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US Highway 431, a 353 mile stretch of road running from the Alabama-Tennessee line down to Dothan, Ala. and commonly referred to as the...

Robertson: Ala. should push back against the embrace of the welfare state

Katherine Robertson -
Under the Obama Administration, "reforms" to federal assistance programs have simply increased the programs' recipients and spending rather than implementing more oversight or accountability....

Sessions: global warming alarmists spreading ‘deliberate misinformation’

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Senate Democrats decided to take a page out of Sen. Rand Paul's playbook Monday night and stage a talk-a-thon about an issue they desperately...

Lawmakers take Carly’s Law to next level, announce research partnership with UAB

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FIVE FACTS: An updated version of "Carly's Law" would legalize the use of cannabidiol (CBD) to treat neurological and epileptic disorders and fund research at...
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