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GOP Rejects McDaniel Challenge

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter On Thursday, August 7, the Mississippi Republican Party has refused to hear a challenge from State Senator Chris McDaniel (R) of the results of its June Republican Party U.S. Senate runoff, which McDaniel lost by just over 7,000 votes to Mississippi’s longtime Senator Thad Cochran (R). Alabama resident and … Continued
August 11, 2014

North Carolina Will Rewrite Common Core

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter On Tuesday, July 22, responding to a rising wave of opposition to the controversial new Common Core, Republican North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory (R) signed legislation that includes the review and revision of the State’s reading and math curriculum in K-12 schools. The law directs the North Carolina Board … Continued
July 23, 2014

McCutcheon Aids McDaniel Cause

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Birmingham area engineer, Shaun McCutcheon, is nationally known for his recent victory before the Supreme Court of the United States, where he successfully challenged limits on an individual’s political giving as unconstitutional limits on political speech. McCutcheon is now deeply involved in Mississippi State Senator Chris McDaniel’s lawsuit challenging … Continued
July 18, 2014

Cochran Certified as Winner of Mississippi Primary

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Longtime U.S. Senator from Mississippi Thad Cochran (R) was certified on Monday, July 7, by the Mississippi Republican Party. After reviewing all the provisional ballots Cochran increased his lead over Tea Party favorite, state Senator Chris McDaniel from 6,800 votes to 7,667. Senator Cochran himself jubilantly returned to the U.S. … Continued
July 9, 2014

Common Core Increasingly Unpopular with Parents

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter A new Rasmussen Poll shows that support for Common Core among Americans with school-age children has dropped dramatically, as more and more states get further along in their implementation of the highly controversial new education standards, being promoted by President Barack Hussein Obama’s Department of Education. According to the … Continued
July 1, 2014

Cochran Narrowly Holds off Tea Party Challenger in Mississippi Senate Race

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter In Kentucky and Ohio, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) and Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner (R) easily brushed aside Tea Party challengers in Republican Primaries. In Virginia, the Tea Party challenger, David Bratt (R), unseated House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R). In Mississippi on Tuesday, … Continued
June 25, 2014

State Pays $100K to Host Southern Legislative Conference in Mobile

By Beth Clayton Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY–The Southern Legislative Conference kicked off in Mobile over the weekend. It is expected to draw in more than 1,000 people from 15 southern states. According to the Alabama Comptroller’s Office, the state is paying $100,000 to help put on the event alongside corporate sponsors like Alabama Power, Blue … Continued
July 29, 2013

MS and OR prescription-only PSE laws cause meth labs to drop 70 percent

By Grant Hallmark Alabama Political Reporter “It’s hard to argue against a 70 percent drop in meth labs,” says Jefferson County District Attorney Brandon Falls of Mississippi’s prescription-only pseudoephedrine (PSE) law. While the county’s chief prosecutor said that he would like to know what kind of effect Alabama’s current law has had on meth lab … Continued
January 2, 2012

Lawmaker to consider prescription only pseudoephedrine

By Grant Hallmark Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY, Ala.–Alabama may be the next state to make pseudoephedrine prescription only. Mississippi and Oregon have passed similar laws, making the methamphetamine ingredient much more difficult to purchase for would be drug designers. Currently, the drug is considered a schedule V controlled substance. This means it is in the … Continued
December 22, 2011