Year in Review: Alex Jobin’s Top 5 stories of 2025
A legislative session riddled with controversy, key local elections, and a senator's anti-Muslim comments defined 2025’s biggest headlines.
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Vincent woman starts GoFundMe campaign to help her 86-year-old grandfather retire
Tom Mims, 86, still wakes up at 3 a.m. every morning to work at the Piggly Wiggly, needing the income after immense medical debt.
ALGOP starts GoFundMe for Alabama veterans captured in Ukraine
The veterans' families are struggling to catch up on bills and expenses incurred while bringing them home.
December 21, 2022
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See recent postsLooking forward. It’s all there is
"We lost a lot of things. But they are things."
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See recent postsWhat the politics of fear has cost us
We bought a boat. That’s what hundreds of people in Alabama did. They all chipped in and bought a nice, big boat for a bona fide scam artist. They also dumped thousands of dollars into the disheveled pockets of Nazi-whisperer Steve Bannon. And we tried to give more. Boy, did we try. The president of … Continued
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See recent postsAnother death penalty horror: Stark disparities in media and activist attention
On November 12, intrepid abolitionist, Sister Helen Prejean, tweeted to her legions of followers: “What do Sen. Ted Cruz, Gigi Hadid, Kim Kardashian, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and me all have in common? We’re among a growing local and national movement asking Texas @GovAbbott to stop the scheduled Nov. 20 execution of #RodneyReed[.]” But for Twitter’s … Continued
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See recent postsAn Alabama man popped the Baby Trump balloon and that sums up this state
There is a reason we don’t have nice things in Alabama. Hoyt Hutchinson. Well, it would probably be more accurate to say that they people like Hoyt Hutchinson and the group of rednecks who are sending him money are why we don’t have nice things. In case you’re unfamiliar, Hoyt is the name of the … Continued
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See recent postsFinal strange chapter: Fake cancer scam ends in jail time
By Josh Moon Alabama Political Reporter The strangest story I’ve ever covered is over. A Shelby County Circuit Court judge on Thursday sentenced Jennifer Flynn Cataldo to serve two years for each of two counts of first-degree theft by deception after Cataldo admitted to soliciting tens of thousands of dollars from friends and family in … Continued