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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.

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More than 100 COVID-19 cases, 23 deaths at Bill Nichols veterans home in Alexander City

More than 100 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed at an East Alabama veterans home among residents and staff, and nearly two dozen residents have died from the virus since early April, the Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs said Tuesday. At least 91 residents have tested positive for the virus at the Bill Nichols State … Continued
May 12, 2020

10 inmates, staff test positive for COVID-19 at Pickens County federal prison

At least six inmates and four employees at a federal prison in West Alabama have tested positive for COVID-19. According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, at least 12 cases have been identified in federal correctional facilities in Alabama, ten of them at Federal Correctional Institution Aliceville, a low-security women’s prison in southern Pickens County. … Continued
May 12, 2020

Alabama passes 10,000 COVID-19 cases, 400 deaths as more businesses reopen

The number of people who have tested positive for COVID-19 in Alabama surpassed 10,000 and the death toll reached 400 on Monday as more businesses including restaurants, barbershops, gyms and salons began reopening after the governor relaxed her “safer-at-home” restrictions. Infectious diseases experts and public health officials stress the virus is still spreading in the … Continued
May 11, 2020

Read Gov. Kay Ivey’s updated May 11 “safer-at-home” order for yourself

On Friday, Gov. Kay Ivey announced that Alabama will ease additional restrictions beginning Monday, allowing restaurants, bars and other businesses to reopen with social-distancing restrictions. You can read the order and breakdowns provided by the Alabama Department of Public Health. The full text {{CODE1}} Summaries of the order {{CODE2}} {{CODE3}}
May 8, 2020

Alabama restaurants, bars, salons can begin opening Monday, governor says

Gov. Kay Ivey said Friday that she will relax more provisions in her “safer-at-home” order amid the COVID-19 crisis, including allowing restaurants, bars, gyms, barbershops and salons to reopen with social-distancing restrictions. The new order goes into effect Monday, May 11, at 5 p.m. and is set to expire on Friday, May 22, at 5 … Continued
May 8, 2020

Alabama reports largest single-day increase in new COVID-19 cases

Alabama reported nearly 2,000 new COVID-19 cases over the last seven days — the highest number of new reported cases over a seven-day period since the outbreak began. Thursday also showed the largest single-day increase in new reported cases. The increase comes as the governor is coming under increasing pressure from business groups and Republican … Continued
May 7, 2020