“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. With current House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Pete King...

Washington, D.C. – This morning Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) addressed the U.S. House, describing the damage done to American jobs and American taxpayers by President Obama’s new partial amnesty program for illegal aliens. Full text of address is below along with cited sources...

From the Office of Congressman Jo Bonner WASHINGTON – A $12 million U.S. Department of Transportation TIGER grant has been awarded to the Alabama State Port Authority (ASPA) to develop an Intermodal Container Transfer Facility to integrate shipping containers with the n...

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The Business Council of Alabama and the Alabama Technology Network announced today that 14 Alabama companies have been named as finalists for the prestigious Manufacturer of the Year Awards. The winners will be announced at a luncheon on Wednesday, June 20, 2012, at the...

House Speaker Mike Hubbard made the following statement in response to President Obama’s decision to halt the deportations of certain illegal immigrants: “It doesn’t surprise me that the most liberal president in history is refusing to enforce our nati...

MONTGOMERY – Governor Robert Bentley on Thursday joined with officials from Brown-Forman Corporation and state and local economic development leaders in announcing that the company will begin its second significant expansion into Alabama in the last 12 months. “I am app...

Joshua Pittman of The Bearded Man Film Company has put together a killer video titled “New South, Downtown Montgomery.” “The city asked me to shoot a video to highlight all the development downtown,” Pittman explains on the video’s Vimeo pa...

The Yellowhammer Local Leader 20 is a collection of 20 of Alabama’s brightest local leaders. The criteria for making this list was fairly broad. Some members of the LL20 are up-and-coming elected officials who will likely go on to higher office in the future. Othe...

Few things get political junkies and insiders more excited than speculating about the future of current elected officials. Heck, I spent an entire hour of my time guest hosting “Leland Live” on WAPI last week discussing exactly that. Who will run for what in...