David Person

David Person is a media personality and consultant who has been working in the Huntsville market since 1986 as a talk show host, columnist, and director/producer. David co-hosts the podcast Alabama Politics This Week.

We need a fact-based conversation about abortion

Each time it re-enters the news cycle, we dig in our heels and revive the argument.

May 12, 2022

Science has revealed complex truths about gender identity

How do Republicans justify interfering with the decision of parents while claiming to be pro-family?

April 28, 2022

It’s simple

A lot of evil has occurred in our state under the guise of heritage, law and so-called etiquette. We need to face those facts. Teach those facts.

April 15, 2022

For Emmett Till’s family and the rest of us

The message was clear. Challenging white supremacy – or appearing to do so – was a death sentence.

March 31, 2022

We finally agree on something

This legislation is long overdue. Too many divisive concepts have been allowed to float through the classrooms and state-run workspaces of our state – especially when it comes to race, sex and religion.

March 11, 2022

Oakwood Adventist Academy basketball is a real First Amendment case

I believe in the First Amendment – and in a society that seeks to accommodate those of all faiths and no faith.

February 24, 2022

Supreme Court of the United States building in Washington

The Supreme Court’s decision has deepened discrimination in our state

In Alabama and the rest of the nation – when it comes to voting rights – we’ve still got a long way to go.

February 14, 2022

Allen ups the ante on Confederate monuments to the detriment of the state

Confederate nostalgia isn’t good business. It makes Alabama look backward and traitorous.

January 27, 2022

Love transcends the truth

Folks don’t want to believe that some of their ancestors could be so callous, so inhumane.

January 14, 2022

The lumps of coal Mo Brooks got in his stocking

Three lumps of political coal. Not the best holiday gift for Mo.

December 29, 2021