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February 19, 2025 – Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (R) is requesting $9,909,416,539 in her proposed 2026 education trust fund budget (ETF). This is an increase of $560,910,370 from the 2025 budget of $9,348,506,169. The current 2025 education budget is the largest in the entire history of the state of Alabama and the Governor's 2026 education budget is half a billion higher than the 2025 budget. In the Governor's proposed budget 68.05% of the budget will be spent on K-12 education – virtually the...
February 19, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. – the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Howard Lutnick as U.S. Secretary of Commerce in a surprisingly close vote of 51 to 45. U.S. Senators Katie Britt (R-Alabama.) and Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) both voted in support of President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the U.S. Department of Commerce. Senator Britt released a statement supportive of Lutnick and Trump's vision for moving the American economy forward. "Hardworking Americans deserves a U.S. Secretary o...
February 20, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Senate on voted to confirm Kash Patel as the FBI's ninth director. 51 Republicans Senators voted to confirm Patel as head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Kurkowski (R-Alaska) voted with all Senate Democrats against Patel's confirmation. Patel is a close ally of President Donald J Trump (R). He has long criticized the FBI and its failed investigations into President Trump. U.S. Senators Katie Britt (...
February 21, 2025 – WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) released a statement after voting yes on the Senate budget in the early morning hours after a marathon overnight Senate session. This budget includes $175 billion to fund President Trump's ongoing efforts to regain control of the U.S. Southern border and increase deportations of people who are illegally here in the country. "77 million Americans delivered a mandate when they voted for President Trump on Nov...
February 21, 2025 – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Newly confirmed FBI Director Kash Patel on Friday reportedly is reassigning 1,500 FBI agents, staff, and managers from the Bureau's headquarters at the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington D.C. According to original reporting by the Washington Post, 1000 agents and staff are being reassigned to FBI field offices across the country, with that being heavily weighted toward high crime locations. 500 (including some of the Bureau's senior leadership and man...
Operation Junction City was the largest American offensive in the Vietnam War. On February 22, 1967 thousands of American forces and their South Vietnamese allies attempted to encircle and trap the bulk of North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces operating in a large sector of what was then South Vietnam. U.S. General William Westmoreland was the commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam at the time. His adversary was North Vietnamese Senior General Nguyen Chi Thanh. Thanh favored large unit engagements...
February 20, 025 – PELL CITY, AL – Public Service Commission President Twinkle Andress Cavanaugh (R) addressed the St. Clair County Republican Party at their regular February meeting in Pell City. "1998 my first event was a potluck supper in St. Clair County," said Cavanaugh. I was amazed at the attendance. Y'all had 98 people in attendance. Senator Jack Biddle was there." Cavanaugh said that Jane Bishop had prepared beaver for that potluck dinner. As a south Alabama person, she had not exp...
On February 23, 303 the Roman Emperor Diocletian issued the first of several edicts in which he and his fellow co-emperors attempted to eliminate Christianity from the face of the Earth – they failed. From its very beginning, Christianity was viewed a threat to the Roman state. Romans were very religious. The Romans believed in many gods and goddesses. They readily adopted Greek gods and embraced them as their own mythology. Assyrians gods, Egyptian gods all had their cults in Rome. C...
On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a massive ground and sea invasion of Ukraine. The two nations had been embroiled in a territorial dispute since 2014 when Russia under President Vladimir Putin invaded the Crimea and supported ethnic Russian uorisings in the Ukrainian provinces of Donetsk and Lugansk. Ukraine became a nation when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republicans (USSR) collapsed in 1991. Both Russia and Ukraine inherited vast nuclear arsenals from the USSR. Fearing nuclear...
February 25, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives voted to advance the Republican budget resolution. Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-AL04) released a statement after voting in favor of the budget package, which he said was a critical first step in advancing President Trump's America First agenda. "In November, more than 83% of voters in Alabama's Fourth District cast their ballots for President Trump, making it clear that they wanted a return to strong, conservative l...
February 25, 2025 – WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. House of Representatives passed a budget resolution largely on party lines. U.S. Representatives Terri Sewell (D-AL07) and Shomari Figures (D-AL02) voted against House Republicans' budget bill. Congresswoman Sewell in a statement said that she could not support the proposal because it calls for cuts to health care benefits. "To rip health care away from millions of Americans in order to give tax cuts to the very wealthy is unconscionable," said R...
February 23, 2025 - AUBURN, AL – Core Scientific announced that it plans to invest $135 million to bring it's data center to Auburn. Economic developer Dr. Nicole J. Wadsworth told the Alabama Gazette, "Data centers are crucial to Alabama's economy and technological infrastructure and support industries such as finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and government services. Our state's strategic location, affordable energy, and business-friendly policies have attracted major data center i...
February 23, 2025 – The Alabama economy has been roaring and nowhere is that more apparent than at the Port of Mobile where ships are lined up to take on Alabama exports. According to the Alabama Department of Commerce, state exports totaled $26.8 billion in 2024. That is down 2% from 2023, but up 30% from 2019. The Alabama Department of Commerce has put a lot of time and effort into the Export Alabama initiative and those efforts are paying off. Christina Stimpson is the Chief Officer of C...
February 4, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL - There are millions of guns in Alabama. By most counts there are more guns than there are people in the state. It is legal in the state for most Alabamians to carry a gun on their person and/or in their vehicle concealed. A new bill before the Alabama Legislature would make it a criminal act not to tell law enforcement about a gun on a citizen's person or in their vehicle at any law enforcement interaction. House Bill 58 is sponsored by State Representative...
January 29, 2025 – STARKVILLE, MS – The University of men's basketball team out fought Mississippi State to secure win number 18 for the Tide. The Tide are the number 4 team in the nation in the latest AP poll. Last night's 88 to 84 win over number 14 Mississippi State improved the Tide to 7 and 1 in the Southeastern Conference. Fifth year senior Guard Chris Youngblood was the Tide's leading scorer with 23 points – including 7 three-point shots made – both career highs. Senior Guard Mark Se...
January 25, 2025 – AUBURN, AL - The number one team in the country Auburn Tigers defeated number six Tennessee 53 to 51 in a very ugly physical game where neither team were able to consistently hit their three-point shots. Defense was the hallmark of the game for both teams and Auburn came out on top in the very physical gritty style of play. The win improves Auburn to 18 and 1 on the season and the Tigers remain undefeated in Southeastern Conference play at 6 and 0. Auburn's only loss thus f...
January 15, 2025 – MONTGOMERY, Al – Retired rear Admiral Kent Davis – who recently was removed from his position as Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Veteran Affairs spoke recently in Montgomery. Admiral Davis speaking to the Republican Club of Central Alabama. Daivs was fired by Governor Kay Ivey (R) because of a dispute between the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Mental Health Department over the allocation of federal COVID relief dollars. Ivey accused Davis of not worki...
February 3, 2025 – MONTGOMERY, AL – The Alabama Legislature returns on Tuesday for the 2025 Alabama regular legislative session. This will be the third year of the quadrennium meaning that this is the last legislative session before election year. It is hard to get major pieces of legislation done in a session where everybody is running for the political lives. This means that this is the last best chance for this legislature to move major pieces of legislation – outside of a special sessi...
During President Donald J. Trump's first administration a cadre of politically connected FBI agents in the D.C. office played a large role in attempting to undermine the President. So much so that a special prosecutor was hired to investigate whether or not Trump was an intelligence asset for the Russians. Those bogus charges were eventually exposed as untrue; but not before wasting over half of Trump's first term and likely costing the GOP the majority in the 2018 elections. After Trump was...
February 1, 2025 – OXFORD, MS – the number one ranked Auburn Tigers men's basketball team went on the road to visit the number 23 ranked University of Mississippi and came away with a 92 to 82 win. Senior Center/Forward Johni Broome led the Tigers with 20 points, 4 assists, 2 blocks, and 12 rebounds. The Auburn big man appears to have recovered completely from a serious ankle injury that had kept him out of the lineup for two weeks. The Tigers – on a 13 game winning streak – did not lose a...
January 30, 2025- WASHINGTON, D.C. – the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Lee Zeldin as Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator. Both U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Alabama) and Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) voted to confirm Zeldin. Senator Britt released a statement after the Senate confirmed Zeldin: "I was excited to vote to confirm Lee Zeldin as EPA Administrator today, Sen. Britt said. "The Biden-Harris EPA instituted partisan, punitive rules and taxes that raised costs and put hardworki...
January 30, 2025 – WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Senate confirmed North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum to be Secretary of the Interior. Both Senators Katie Britt (R-Alabama) and Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) voted to confirm Burgum who was confirmed on a very bipartisan 79 to 18 vote. Senator Britt released a statement after the Senate confirmed Burgum. "I was proud to vote to confirm Doug Burgum as President Donald Trump's Interior Secretary," said Sen. Britt. "His background as an outsider and s...
January 29, 2025 - BATON ROUGE, LA. - Senior center/forward Johni Broome is back and Auburn is playing as good a brand of basketball as it has at any point in this season. Auburn defeated LSU 87 to 74 on Wednesday night. Auburn was led by Broome who scored 26 points - 20 of them in the second half – in Auburn's victory. Broome also 13 rebounds and 3 shot blocks. The win improves Auburn to 19 and 1 overall and 7 and 0 in the Southeastern Conference – easily the USA's best basketball con...
January 29, 2025 – WASHINGTON, D.C. – This is National School Choice Week and U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) marked the occasion with a statement in support of President Donald J. Trump's (R) latest executive orders prohibiting federal funds from going to any K-12 school that teaches critical race theory (CRT) or radical gender ideology and expanding school choice for students: "I fully support President Trump's decision to prohibit federal funds from going to any K-12 school tha...
December 14, 2022 – MONTGOMERY, AL – most Alabamians are busy preparing for Christmas and most Republicans are anxiously awaiting the return of President Donald J. Trump (R). Democrats on the other hand are mostly dreading the second Trump administration. Little noticed by most Alabamians, the Alabama Legislature is spending this time preparing for the 2025 Alabama regular legislative session which begins on Tuesday, February 4. This will be the third year of the quadrennium meaning that thi...
