Senate staffers told Yellowhammer Tuesday evening that the next couple of days will be key in the immigration debate behind-the-scenes as things start to move quickly in the U.S. Senate. Senator Marco Rubio appeared on a record seven Sunday talk shows this week discussi...

By Gary Palmer, Alabama Policy Institute “All beginnings are hopeful.” That’s what the principal of Somerville College, Oxford said to the students who arrived there in 1944. That statement made a lasting impression on Margaret Roberts, who would become Great Britain’s ...

As America celebrated President’s Day, Billy Graham released a picture gallery illustrating his relationships with decades of U.S. Presidents. Graham has met with — or ministered to — every President since Harry Truman in 1950. Although the policies of the Obama a...

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...

…May be updated as the day goes on… Alabama Politics BIRMINGHAM NEWS: Alabama’s state, local tax collections per person second-lowest in U.S. in 2010 State and local governments in Alabama collected fewer tax dollars per state resident to spend on scho...

Alabama Politics DECATUR DAILY: Orr: Restrict SNAP spending State Sen. Arthur Orr is championing a bill to tighten a loophole that allows federal and state aid recipients to use taxpayer dollars for alcohol, cigarettes and other non-essential items. The Decatur Republic...