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...

Representative Allen West is the featured speaker at next weekend’s ALGOP Summer Dinner. Yesterday, a new West ad titled “Just Getting Started” hit the web. It’s already getting a lot of reaction from both the left and the right as he continues t...

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...

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...

(Washington, DC) – The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), which focuses on constitutional law, announced today it is providing legal representation to a top conservative blogger and his organization that represents many other bloggers who are facing threa...

MONTGOMERY – Armed with a new law restricting the protests of funerals of fallen soldiers and other victims, Alabama lawmakers and Governor Bentley today sent a strong message to any hate groups that would show such disrespect: stay out of Alabama. Governor Bentley toda...

“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. A diverse group of interest groups are rumored to be considering ...

From the Office of the Governor MONTGOMERY – Governor Robert Bentley on Tuesday welcomed Donald Tong, Commissioner of Hong Kong, to Alabama. In a meeting at the State Capitol, Governor Bentley, Commissioner Tong, and business leaders discussed Alabama’s interest in attr...

This will be the last “Hate Mail of the Week” for a while. Hate Mail has been, without a doubt, Yellowhammer’s most popular weekly feature — but I’ve decided to give it a rest for a while and possibly resurrect it in the future when the timing fe...

Earlier this year, Yellowhammer released our inaugural “Power & Influence 40,” a list of the 40 most powerful and influential people in Alabama politics. We also released a list of 8 “Power & Influence Up and Comers.” This list included...