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Mississippi, Alabama are only southern states with no anti-FGM laws

33 states across the country have taken steps to criminalize female genital mutilation. However, Alabama and Mississippi remain the only southern states to have no legislation criminalizing the practice.  Female genital mutilation, which is defined as a procedure to “remove, cut, circumcise, excise, mutilate, infibulate or reinfibulate” any part of the genitals for non-medical purposes … Continued
July 2, 2019

Climate change is killing our coastal gulf fisheries

Marine life along the Gulf of Mexico is not doing well. Vast numbers of oyster, blue crab, shrimp, and fin fish off coastal Louisiana, Mississippi and bays of Alabama have been killed outright or driven from marshes. In Louisiana and Mississippi, the death blow was an unprecedented outflow of fresh water juiced, among other sources, … Continued
July 2, 2019

Merrill becomes the candidate to watch in U.S. Senate race

In his opening bid to become the next U.S. Senator from Alabama, Secretary of State John Merrill hit all the right notes to appeal to Republican primary voters. In an approximately 90-second video, Merrill took on the liberal left, touted his conservative record and slammed his closest Republican opponents Congressman Bradley Byrne, former Auburn football … Continued
July 1, 2019

Steven Nasiatka named corporate chairman of 2019 NAMIWalks Alabama

The National Alliance on Mental Illness has announced that Steven Nasiatka, the director of Crossbridge Behavioral Health/Baptist Healthcare, will serve as the corporate chairman for their annual fundraising event, NAMIWalks Alabama.  The Walk is scheduled to take place at Wynton Blount Cultural Park on Saturday, Sept. 21. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m., with starting line … Continued
June 27, 2019

Moore can win, establishment can lose

In 251 days, Alabama voters will cast their ballots to determine the winners of the 2020 primary election. The big prize for the 2020 General Election is the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Democrat Doug Jones. Whoever wins the Republican primary should handily defeat Jones, but with former Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore … Continued
June 26, 2019

Alabama reaches record low of 3.7 percent unemployment

Record numbers of Alabamians are in the labor force. According to the Alabama Department of Labor’s May 2019 economic data, Alabama’s unemployment rate from May is 3.7 percent, down from April’s rate of 3.8 percent and lower than May 2018’s rate of 4.1 percent. May’s 3.7 percent unemployment rate ties with March and February 2019’s … Continued
June 24, 2019
Nameplate reads J. Pepper Bryars

Dad-deprived homes reach crisis levels in Alabama

Fathers Day has come and gone, and sadly, so too has the concept of fatherhood in many parts of Alabama.  Nearly half of all babies born here are to unmarried women, according to the latest information from the Alabama Department of Public Health.  This is a crisis. It is a crisis that researchers have shown significantly contributes … Continued
June 21, 2019

Alabama has one of the nation’s strongest campus free-speech laws?

Alabama has been in the news lately for recently passing the nation’s strongest anti-abortion rights law, but it also just enacted what is being hailed by one expert as “one of the most comprehensive and effective campus free-speech laws in the country,” Last week Gov. Kay Ivey signed a law requiring the state’s public colleges … Continued
June 18, 2019

National Park Service gives grants to protect Civil War battlefields in Alabama

On Tuesday, the National Park Service announced $499,705.96 in grants to protect 131 acres of battlefields in Alabama, Mississippi and Virginia. The grants from the American Battlefield Protection Program will be used to acquire significant Civil War battlefields at risk of damage or destruction by urban and suburban development. “Battlefield Land Acquisition Grants allow for … Continued
June 12, 2019

Jones commends $25.9 million federal grant toward Alabama airport infrastructure improvement

Sen. Doug Jones praised the U.S. Department of Transportation on Monday for awarding $25.9 million in federal grants to 21 airport infrastructure improvement projects in Alabama. “Well maintained and accessible airports are critical to our state’s continued economic growth and they are key to helping our communities expand and thrive,” Jones said. “This $25.9 million … Continued
June 10, 2019