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Josh Moon

Josh Moon is an investigative reporter and columnist. You can reach him at [email protected].

Infrastructure / News / State

The water is poison and there’s no one we trust to fix it

There’s too much lead in the water in Lauderdale County. The Alabama Department of Environmental Management issued that alert on Thursday, and if ADEM issued an alert, after all of the pollution they’ve kept quiet about, you can bet No. 2 pencils must be falling from the taps. ADEM has recommended a number of steps … Continued

Josh Moon

September 13, 2019

Ethics Commission to rule on Burkette complaint

The Alabama Ethics Commission is expected to rule on a complaint regarding allegations that Sen. David Burkette, D-Montgomery, misused discretionary funds when he served as a city councilman in Montgomery. The original complaint against Burkette, filed last October, alleged that while serving on the council, Burkette directed tens of thousands of dollars in councilmen discretionary … Continued

Josh Moon

September 12, 2019

Expansion of the Port of Mobile gets the green light

Big ships are coming. On Tuesday, the Alabama State Port Authority announced that it has received federal authorization to deepen the Mobile Harbor, allowing for much larger vessels in the Port of Mobile. The project will deepen the bay and river channels to 50 feet and widening the bay channel by more than 100 feet … Continued

Josh Moon

September 11, 2019

Opinion

There’s only one way to save the Alabama Democratic party: Start over

Another week, another strongly worded letter from the Democratic National Committee about the Alabama Democratic Party. On Monday, DNC chairman Tom Perez — the big dog among Democrats — sent a letter to the chairman of the Jefferson County Democratic Party outlining the current situation regarding Alabama’s pathetic state party and its recent troubles following … Continued

Josh Moon

September 10, 2019

Opinion

Pay no attention to the clown, please

The President of the United States is a clown. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know we’re supposed to have respect for the office and all that — and honestly, I do — but we’ve reached the point that not calling a clown a clown is doing a disservice to the country, the people and the office … Continued

Josh Moon

September 9, 2019

Opinion

Montgomery mayor’s race should be about real problems, solutions. Instead it’s about racism.

As it turns out, there wasn’t any funny business with the Montgomery municipal elections last week. Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill held a press conference on Thursday to say as much. There were some oddities. Some things didn’t go exactly right. There were a few individual cases of alleged fraud witnessed — all of … Continued

Josh Moon

September 6, 2019

Opinion

ADEM found E. Coli levels 35 times the danger level after Tyson spill. It didn’t tell anyone.

The Alabama Department of Environmental Management’s website should probably be the first clue that the department doesn’t understand its responsibility to alert the public to dangerous environmental issues. That website, which appears to be designed around the time people were still messaging in AOL chatrooms, states near the bottom that it is best viewed in … Continued

Josh Moon

September 5, 2019

Opinion

Alabama Dems’ pathway to relevancy: Alabama workers

There is nothing Alabama Democrats can do about Republican supermajorities in this very red state. Have you heard that one? I have. Heard it repeatedly, in fact. Hell, the leadership of the Alabama Democratic Party said it recently, as it attempted to justify its pathetic inaction — and subsequent tail-kickin’ — in last year’s midterm … Continued

Josh Moon

September 3, 2019

Opinion

Kay Ivey has an opportunity to do some real good

Dressing up in blackface 50 years ago doesn’t make Gov. Kay Ivey a racist. It just helps explain why she’s a racist today. Think of it sort of like those superhero origin stories that are popular now. The blackface incident at Auburn was just one early clue that Kay Ivey was going to be a … Continued

Josh Moon

August 30, 2019

Opinion

Alabama Republicans expelled the wrong person

Alabama Republicans were right to pass a resolution calling for Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar to be expelled from Congress and sent back where she came from. There’s no room in this country for the sort of hateful, anti-Christian speech that Omar has espoused the last few months. For example, while at a rally a few … Continued

Josh Moon

August 29, 2019