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Bemoaning our post-truth society

By Joey Kennedy Alabama Political Reporter Many readers know that, along with my journalism career, I’m also an English instructor at UAB. During most semesters, I teach two or three classes in the English Department, usually freshman composition courses and/or sophomore literature. I enjoy teaching, and I’ve been doing that at UAB since 2001. This … Continued
August 31, 2017

Change may be coming to Birmingham

By Joey Kennedy Alabama Political Reporter As one who has covered Birmingham City Council meetings from time to time, I can attest they can be raucous affairs. Even when Birmingham is moving steadily forward, as it has for the past few years, the mayor and City Council are known to fight each other, sometimes literally. … Continued
August 24, 2017

I’m dreaming of a Purple Christmas

By Joey Kennedy Alabama Political Reporter I don’t know what I was expecting; I guess I’m the eternal optimist. But Alabama Republicans again decided not to change. Not to step forward and do something exciting and new. Disgraced former Chief Justice Roy Moore and US Sen. Luther Strange are in the Republican runoff for the … Continued
August 17, 2017

Those in power really don’t want you to vote. You scare them.

By Joey Kennedy Alabama Political Reporter So, Republican Alabama Secretary of State John H. Merrill tells us Tuesday in a guest column for The Alabama Political Reporter, no more crossover voting in the State. Republicans who vote in a Republican Primary, and Democrats who vote in a Democratic Primary, have to vote in those same … Continued
August 2, 2017

The best ever by far?

By Joey Kennedy Alabama Political Reporter This won’t be a long column. Doesn’t have to be. Not much explaining or analysis needed. Disgraced former Gov. Robert Bentley, in an interview with WVTM-TV this week, said he was “the best Governor Alabama’s ever had by far.” Yes, he did. He said it. And: “Had people just … Continued
July 20, 2017

And then, Jesus wept.

By Joey Kennedy Alabama Political Reporter We know what to expect from US Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Madison). We’ve heard his hateful rhetoric for long enough. But even I never expected the words now coming out of the mouth of US Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Montrose), once one of the few “reasonable” Alabama Republicans out there. I … Continued
July 13, 2017

How did we get here? I’ll tell you.

By Joey Kennedy Alabama Political Reporter Listening to the fireworks go off around me Tuesday, I found myself contemplating what the Fourth of July, or Independence Day, really means. And this Independence Day, I couldn’t help wondering how we’d gotten here. How did we end up with a cold, despicable, bully-hearted President? How did we … Continued
July 5, 2017

The same, or different?

By Joey Kennedy Alabama Political Reporter Are we going to be the same, making the same decisions over and over again, and hoping for a different result? (The definition of insanity.) Or will Alabama voters decide what we’re doing is not working, and make some new choices? We’ll have a good indication with the upcoming … Continued
June 28, 2017

“What can the Internet do for us?”

By Joey Kennedy Alabama Political Reporter Congratulations to Josh Moon, my colleague at The Alabama Political Reporter, for taking a couple of journalism awards from the Alabama Associated Press Managing Editors group. Those aren’t Moon’s first awards, and they likely won’t be his last. Showing nothing but class, Moon put the awards in the correct … Continued
June 22, 2017

Yes, we must have better gun control

By Joey Kennedy Alabama Political Reporter So, what do we do? Wednesday was another terrible day of gun violence in the nation. The events, which left a US Congressman and four others wounded in Alexandria, Va., and four UPS employees dead and two others wounded in San Francisco, had nothing to do with Donald Trump’s … Continued
June 15, 2017