Steve Flowers

Steve Flowers served 16 years in the state legislature. His weekly column appears in over 60 Alabama newspapers. Steve may be reached at [email protected].

COVID killed the Don

"The March invasion of the coronavirus derailed the Trump Train," columnist Steve Flowers writes.

December 2, 2020

Turnout for presidential election shatters record in Alabama

"The driving force had to unquestionably be driven by a fervor to vote for President Donald Trump."

November 18, 2020

Jim Martin: The father of modern Republican Party in Alabama

"Martin was the John the Baptist of the Southern Republican sweep of 1964, and father of the modern Republican Party in Alabama."

November 11, 2020

Alabama is truly a Republican State

"The more things change the more they stay the same in politics."

November 4, 2020

Election Day is next week

This will be a memorable and historical election year. This 2020 pandemic year is hopefully only a once in a century event.

October 28, 2020

Election less than two weeks away

If the Republicans lose these three and one more, then Sen. Shelby loses the chairmanship of appropriations and Alabama loses all of its power in Washington.

October 21, 2020

GOP control of U.S. Senate critical for Alabama

If the U.S. Senate flips from Republican to Democratic, our iconic senior Sen. Richard Shelby loses the chairmanship of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee and Alabama loses our power in Washington.

October 14, 2020

The story of the Dixiecrats and 1948 Truman election as president

This split in the Southern Democratic ranks was due to civil rights and race. Truman had promoted civil rights legislation. The South revolted.

October 7, 2020

Alabama’s budget year begins this week. COVID-19 has played havoc

The coronavirus pandemic has left a half billion dollar cut to Alabama’s state budgets for the upcoming year, but the debacle has decimated other states much worse than Alabama.

September 30, 2020

All politics is local. All of Alabama’s mayors races this year

With it being a presidential election year and an election for one of our United States Senate Seats and all of the interest that goes along with those high-profile contests, it has gone under the radar that most of our cities in the state had elections for mayor and city council last month. Mayors serve … Continued

September 23, 2020