Joey Kennedy

Joey Kennedy, a Pulitzer Prize winner, writes a column each week for the Alabama Political Reporter. You can email him at [email protected] or follow him on Twitter.

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An optimistic pessimist?

This is the season where we should self-evaluate, then look toward what we can do to make the world – and our world specifically – more accommodating, more filled with grace, more forgiving, more kind.

December 5, 2021

Gary Palmer: The hypocrite’s hypocrite

Where the hypocrite’s hypocrite comes in, Gary Palmer, handshake and dead eyes included, is one of the best.

November 20, 2021

Are we about to see another surge? It’s up to us

We’re in the cusp of either taming the plague or giving it a fifth life.

November 14, 2021

Science is winning

And then it hit me. Most people aren’t afraid of the vaccine. They want it, for themselves and their children.

November 7, 2021

Trick or treat, and screw you!

I’m not naïve. I know it’ll take bigger, broader minds to make a difference during redistricting than we have now in Montgomery.

October 31, 2021

Millions of dollars’ worth of bluster

We Dare to Spend Millions of Taxpayer Dollars Unsuccessfully Defending Our Rights.

October 24, 2021

Sunday brunch: Questions, but few answers

“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.”

October 17, 2021

The end is near. Repeat.

We don’t seem to have the patience it’ll take to really turn the corner on COVID.

October 10, 2021

The modern medical equivalent to bleeding

That licensed physicians would spread the kind of misinformation they have is unforgivable.

October 3, 2021

COVID: Doublespeak and gobbledygook

Imagine being so afraid of losing your public office that you allow the least informed to inform your policies.

September 26, 2021