By Gary Palmer, Alabama Policy Institute As the 2013 Legislative Session gets under way, Alabama Republican legislators will be dealing with a lot of facts and figures as they try to pass sensible budgets, eliminate wasteful and inefficient spending, and pay back the mo...

“Best and Worst Week in Montgomery” is a weekly feature on Yellowhammer Politics when the legislature is in session. We recognize the people or organizations who had the BEST week or WORST week in town. House Republicans House Republicans wasted no time in advancing the...

According to a Gallup poll released late last week, Alabama was the most conservative state in America in 2012, and the only the state in the country where over 50% of voters identified themselves as conservative. Wyoming and North Dakota tied for second with 48.6% of t...

Alabama Republican Party Chairman Bill Armistead surprised many onlookers Saturday morning (including me!) by winning re-election by a comfortable margin of 221 – 159. One longtime ALGOP executive committee member told Yellowhammer several weeks ago that every sin...

A behind-the-scenes battle for the future of energy production in Alabama finally came to a head last week at the Alabama Public Service Commission. As we mentioned in mid-December, radical environmentalists — being aided by an inside man at the PSC — have been plotting...

Although it has not yet been announced to the public at large, Yellowhammer can confirm that RNC Chairman Reince Priebus will be the headline speaker at the ALGOP Winter Dinner February 1 at the Sheraton Birmingham Hotel. Yellowhammer first heard earlier this week from ...

With the 2012 election cycle behind us, we took our first look yesterday at the trend of Governor Bentley’s approval numbers over the first two years of his term. There are less than five months before the 2014 election cycle begins with the opening of the fundrai...

According to AL.com and multiple Yellowhammer sources, the Alabama Attorney General’s office has subpoenaed the Alabama Republican Party’s financial records. Members of the Party’s steering committee told Yellowhammer last week that the subpoena appear...

I was as surprised as anyone last week when conservative stalwart Sen. Jim DeMint resigned from his South Carolina U.S. Senate seat to become the president of conservative Washington, D.C. think tank The Heritage Foundation. While it’s never good to lose a solid c...

This is a very open blog so I allow free dialogue and I welcome criticism. That’s why the Yellowhammer comment section frequently contains both positive and negative comments directed at me personally and toward this blog’s content. That will continue. However, I won’t ...