A couple of weeks ago, former State Sen. Roy Smith invited me to speak at his monthly Etowah County GOP breakfast. I had a great time with Sen. Smith, Rep. Blaine Galliher, Sen. Phil Williams, and the rest of the Etowah crew — but 93-year-old former Congressman Jim Mart...

From the Office of the Governor: MONTGOMERY – Governor Robert Bentley on Thursday announced 105 road and bridge improvement projects that will now be able to move forward as part of the first round of funding for ATRIP – the Alabama Transportation Rehabilitation and Imp...

When Governor Bentley and the new GOP-led legislature took the reigns together in January of 2011, Alabama’s unemployment rate was higher than the national average. Alabama’s unemployment rate sat at 9.3% while the national rate was 9.1%. Since then, Alabama...

“Rumors and Rumblings” is a weekly feature that runs each Wednesday. It includes short nuggets of information that we glean from conversations throughout the week. Have a tip? Send it here. 1. Lowell Barron served as Mayor of Fyffe, AL from 1968 until being ...

Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard will join national business and political leaders next week as a featured panelist at Congressman Tim Scott’s Encouraging Entrepreneurship Conference. Steve Forbes, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Domino’s Pizza CEO Patrick Do...

This week’s “Rumors & Rumblings” are coming to you a day late because we were digging around for a little more info on a couple of rumors. Have a tip? Send it here. 1. The Mobile Bay area is buzzing with the idea of Republican State Representative ...

Progress in the Senate hit a brick wall on Monday evening as Democrats threw a hissy fit over…well… being in the minority. Senate Republicans allowed Democrats to offer substitute redistricting maps and brought each subsitute up for a vote rather than tablin...

via Buzzfeed Artur Davis, the former Democratic congressman from Alabama, is considering running for a House seat in Virginia as a Republican, according to a source close to Davis, who ran a near-miss campaign [editor's note: lol] for governor of Alabama in 2010. Davis ...

“Hate Mail of the Week” is a weekly feature on Yellowhammer Politics in which some of the hate mail submitted through our contact page is published exactly as it was received. The only edits made are to remove expletives — this is a family show, after all. I...

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – U.S. Representative Martha Roby is presently on her way back from Afghanistan today, where she spent time with U.S. military forces in and around Kabul and Kandahar. Roby led a Congressional Delegation (CODEL) of five House members overseas to obser...