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Chip Brownlee

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Chip Brownlee

Chip Brownlee is a former political reporter, online content manager and webmaster at the Alabama Political Reporter. He is now a reporter at The Trace, a non-profit newsroom covering guns in America.

Report: States can improve health outcomes by investing in public services

A report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities says states and localities can improve residents’ health by investing more in education, the environment, infrastructure and other public services. The report found that investing in these vital services can eliminate barriers to good health, especially for low-income residents and communities of color. Among the suggestions … Continued
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February 22, 2019

Editor who wrote Klan editorial has penned countless racist, sexist, xenophobic pieces

Warning: This story quotes offensive language. The same editor who penned an editorial calling for the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan and elaborated on those views by calling for lynchings of Democratic politicians has a long track record of penning racist, homophobic and sexists editorials in his small-town newspaper. The Democrat-Reporter, a community newspaper in … Continued
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February 19, 2019

Alabama Democratic Party ordered to hold new leadership elections

The Democratic National Committee’s credentials committee ordered a new round of elections for state party leaders in Alabama. The Alabama Democratic Party will have to re-do its leadership elections after the credentials committee ruling on several challenges to Chairwoman Nancy Worley and Vice Chairman Randy Kelley’s election over the summer. The challenges followed a contentious … Continued
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February 15, 2019

Birmingham opposes stay of judge’s Confederate monuments ruling

The city of Birmingham is opposing Attorney General Steve Marshall’s request for a Jefferson County Circuit Court to temporarily delay a judge’s decision striking down a 2017 law that protests Confederate monuments in Alabama. In a court filing earlier this month, city attorneys asked the court to maintain its ruling that overturned the law. If … Continued
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February 15, 2019
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Gov. Ivey to move forward with $900 million prison plan

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey is poised to move forward with a plan to build three new prisons and invest more in prison staff as the state’s aging and overpopulated correctional system faces continued calls for reform from both activists and the federal courts. Ivey announced a broad outline of her plan during a press conference … Continued
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February 12, 2019

Federal court rules Alabama treatment of prisoners in isolation unconstitutional

A federal court ruled Monday that Alabama’s prison system fails to adequately evaluate the mental health of inmates during isolation in segregation cells. The treatment of the inmates is unconstitutional and violates the Eighth Amendment, U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson wrote in a ruling that found the Alabama Department of Corrections to be “deliberately indifferent” … Continued
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February 12, 2019

Some charges dropped against Trey Glenn, Scott Phillips

Several ethics charges against former Alabama Environmental Management Commissioner Scott Phillips and former U.S. EPA Administrator Trey Glenn have been dropped in a new superseding indictment filed Monday. With the new superseding indictment, which was signed by a grand jury Friday, Phillips and Glenn are both facing fewer ethics charges in total than they faced in the … Continued
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February 12, 2019