The most anticipated issues on the final day of the 2013 legislative session will include the long-debated omnibus gun bill, drug testing for welfare applicants, and the The Religious Liberty Act which would allow religiously affiliated or motivated employers to opt out...

“We want to get Washington out of the way of how you use your time,” Rep. Martha Roby said as she delivered this week’s official Republican Address, capping off a flurry of national attention as her bill, The Working Families Flexibility Act, made its way through the Ho...

A new study released this week shows Alabama’s First Class Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten Program continues to lead the nation in quality. Alabama is one of only four states in the country to meet all 10 quality benchmarks established by the National Institute for Early Edu...

Common Core Standards are an attempt to put the same education content in classrooms all across America. Stop at that sentence and do not take the argument any further, and there is already plenty of reason Alabama should reject them. Do I think Common Core Standards ar...

Alabama’s senior U.S. Senator Richard Shelby took to the floor of the Senate today to speak against the Senate Democrats’ gun control legislation. “Mr. President, I rise to defend the Second Amendment to our Constitution,” Senator Shelby said in ...

Alabama’s Republican national committeeman, Paul Reynolds, sponsored a resolution at this weekend’s RNC Spring meeting rejecting Common Core State Education Standards. Reynolds was also the presenter of the resolution which was unanimously passed out of the ...

David Rountree, Chief of Staff to Public Service Commissioner Terry Dunn is rallying the wacko environmentalists — yet again. As most longtime readers will recall, Rountree has been at the center of a months long debate raging at the Alabama Public Service Commission, w...

This piece on Medicaid initially appeared in this week’s Rumors & Rumblings. I noted then that it was much more in-depth than I initially intended, and that I might repost it as its own article. I’m hoping this will be a good snapshot of where things sta...

On the same day that Yellowhammer learned of Governor Bentley’s first potential 2014 challenger, rumors emerged of former Tuscaloosa County Commissioner Don Wallace challenging Lt. Gov. Kay Ivey as well. Wallace was a two-term Tuscaloosa County Commissioner. He ra...

Yellowhammer first broke the news this week that Governor Bentley officially announced his candidacy for re-election in 2014. Only a couple of days later, it looks like the first potential challenger is emerging — but it’s not any of the usual suspects. A correcti...