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Congressional candidate Barry Moore shares meme supporting Kenosha shooter

Barry Moore, the Republican candidate expected to win election to Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District, shared a post on his Facebook page on Saturday supporting the 17-year-old gunman charged with two counts of homicide after a shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The post, which has since been deleted, shows an image of an armed Kyle Rittenhouse next to … Continued

Micah Danney

August 29, 2020

Opinion

Armed church security fails to prevent three deaths

Across Alabama and the nation, news stories on the recent shooting at West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, Texas, that left three people dead, including the shooter, have almost unanimously called the tragedy an unqualified success story for gun rights advocates. The Dallas Morning News headline, for example, proclaimed: “A church shooting near … Continued

Jim Allen

January 6, 2020

DA has not made a determination to prosecute mother in death of unborn child

Thursday, the Jefferson County Bessemer Cutoff District Attorney’s Office said that they have not yet made their determination about whether to prosecute Marshae Jones for manslaughter in the death or her unborn child or not. “Foremost, it should be stated that this is a truly tragic case, resulting in the death of an unborn child,” … Continued

Brandon Moseley

June 28, 2019

Opinion

The Hoover situation gets stranger every day

What’s happening in Hoover makes no sense. Every day, there’s another report that’s stranger than the last report. Every day, someone says something that they have to almost immediately correct. Every day, there is some action taken by city leaders or Alabama Law Enforcement Agency officials that makes it seem as though they actually want … Continued

Josh Moon

December 7, 2018

Opinion

Three things. Three ugly things

Three events that should worry us this week: HOOVER SHOOTING Transparent. That’s a pretty clear term for most of us. A dictionary definition is equally transparent: “Open, frank, candid.” But to many (most?) governments, “transparent” is just a word. Hoover officials have been vowing transparency since they learned that 21-year-old Emantic Bradford Jr. was not … Continued

Joey Kennedy

November 29, 2018