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Alarming trend: A few spearhead majority of book bans, impacting free speech

The nature of these challenges is also revealing. Nearly half targeted titles with LGBTQ themes, while books about race and racism constituted the second most challenged category.
December 25, 2023

July hottest global month ever recorded

July was the hottest month since mankind began keeping records more than a century ago, according to a European Union climate program.  Two blistering heatwaves across Western Europe in June and July accelerated the melting of  Greenland’s ice sheet, sending 197 billion tons of water into the North Atlantic in July alone, according to Ruth … Continued
August 8, 2019

“D” is still DOA in Alabama

I’m betting U.S. Sen. Doug Jones, D-Alabama, has his fingers tightly crossed today. And his toes. Probably his eyes, too. Anything he can cross, Jones likely has it crossed. Today is the day former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore announces whether he’ll once again run for the U.S. Senate seat Jones snatched from him two … Continued
June 20, 2019

Washington Post digs into Washington County charter fiasco

When a newspaper with the national impact of The Washington Post covers a story out of tiny Washington County, AL, you immediately know there is something serious afoot.  In this case, it is the Washington County charter fiasco that got the attention of veteran education reporter Valerie Strauss, who has worked for this newspaper for nearly 30 years. Because … Continued
May 6, 2019

Alabama hasn’t taught black history well. It’s hurt us all.

Majority-white public schools received about $23 billion more in funding than majority-nonwhite schools in 2016, according to a report from the nonprofit group EdBuild. That seemed to surprise a lot of people when the study’s findings were reported in the Washington Post last week. I’m not sure why. The majority of school funding models are … Continued
February 27, 2019

Trump-bashing attorney represents AG Marshall’s mega donor in lawsuit

As if the attorney general’s race couldn’t become more bizarre, enter Washington, D.C. election lawyer Charlie Spies, who is defending appointed Attorney General Steve Marshall’s PAC contributions from the Republican Attorney Generals Association (RAGA). Spies is best known for his epic troll of then-candidate Donald Trump when he represented failed GOP presidential candidate and Never-Trumper … Continued
July 12, 2018

Roy Moore: Carrying sore loser to the extreme

Attorney Paula Cobia was succinct in describing disgraced former Chief Justice Roy Moore’s defamation and conspiracy lawsuit filed this week against four women who accused him of molesting or harassing them and a man Moore claims has a vendetta against him. “It’s a garbage complaint,” Cobia said in a telephone interview. Cobia represents one of … Continued
May 3, 2018

Moore supporters seek revenge against Sen. Shelby

By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter A group of Judge Roy Moore’s supporters is planning to introduce a resolution to censure Alabama’s U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby because he publicly stated that he “couldn’t vote for Roy Moore,” as reported by Politico on Saturday. It’s no small irony that a faction of the Alabama Republican Executive … Continued
January 15, 2018