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On Monday, U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Alabama) delivered remarks during prime time on the opening night of the 2024 Republican National Convention. Britt told the GOP convention that life has gotten "much more difficult-and way more expensive" under the Biden/Harris administration. Sen. Britt said that the price of groceries had risen 21% and that electricity bill are up 31% while interest rates on homes have doubled. "We need to change the direction of our nation, and Donald Trump is the...
On Tuesday, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) cast Alabama's fifty votes for former President Donald J. Trump (R) at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. "Madam chair, I'm Coach Senator Tommy Tuberville," said Sen. Tuberville. "I'm proud to represent the great state of Alabama--one of the most pro-military and pro-veteran states in the country. Huntsville, Alabama has sent somebody to the moon from the United States in the past, and we will do it again in the very...
On Monday, former President Donald J. Trump (R) announced this his running mate would be freshman U.S. Senator J.D. Vance (R-Ohio). The decision has been widely applauded by Republicans. The Alabama Gazette spoke with Logan Glass – an Alabama delegate to the convention and the youngest delegate there about the choice at age 22. "I was shocked," said Glass. "I did not have him in my top three or even top five," speaking of Vance. "I am pleasantly surprised with the pick," Glass said. "Vance w...
On Tuesday, Kelvin Datcher won the special Democratic primary runoff over Frank Woodson in House District 52. "Thank you District 52!! WE DID IT!!!!" Datcher said on social media after the win. Datcher received 55% of the votes cast (831 votes); while Woodson received 45% (675 votes). Only 1,506 votes were cast. Datcher is the deputy director of community development for the City of Birmingham. He previously worked as a policy analyst at the Jefferson County Health Department, as Chief of Staff...
***UPDATED July 21 - President Biden has withdrawn from the race but will remain on as President for now at least. He has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for POTUS. President Joseph R. Biden slammed "elites" who were plotting against his getting the Democratic nomination for President and vowed to stay in the race. That did not stop the effort by top Democrats to retire the oldest President in American history. "I'm not going anywhere," Biden told Mika and Joe Scarborough on a televised...
Alabama allows towns to form their own school systems. In the case of some wealthy suburbs the city system has the best facilities, some of the highest test scores in the state, and the best teachers and principals available in Alabama. In the case of Bessemer, however, the city school system has been historically bad for decades and it has gotten so bad that Alabama State Superintendent Eric Mackey is considering the possibility of a state takeover. On Wednesday Bessemer school board members me...
The state of Alabama has made tremendous strides in getting broadband deeper into the interior of the state. Alabama's politicians liked to talk about rural broadband; but it was progressing at a snail's pace until the state got involved in an effort led by Governor Kay Ivey, former State Senator Clay Scofield (R-Guntersville), and Rep. Randall Shedd (R-Fairview). That effort – bolstered by hundreds of millions of federal dollars – is really starting to make progress as Alabama has gone fro...
On Sunday, President Joseph R. Biden (D) finally acknowledged what most Americans already knew and that he was increasingly a drag on the Democratic ticket and that they would have a better chance of winning the White House in November if someone else ran as the Democratic nominee. Republican Executive Committee member former State. Rep. Perry O. Hooper Jr. told the Alabama Gazette that everyone already knew that Biden was experiencing a sharp mental decline. "Joe Biden's decision not to run...
Democratic nominee Kelvin Datcher appears to be the winner in the House District 52 election after his Republican opponent – Carlos Crus – dropped out of the race. Datcher recently won the Democratic primary runoff over Frank Woodson. The Alabama GOP had an extremely short qualifying period in HD52 (ostensibly to avoid Crum having to face a primary opponent); so Crum won the Republican nomination without having to talk to voters as there was no need for a primary. Datcher, on the other han...
On Sunday, President Joseph R. Biden (D) released a written statement announcing that he is suspending his campaign to be reelected immediately. Congresswoman Terri A. Sewell (D-Selma), a longtime Biden supporter, released the following statement expressing her admiration for Biden and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris as the successor to Biden. "President Joe Biden will go down in history as one of the most consequential and transformational leaders America has ever seen," Sewell wrote....
On Friday, Alabama Department of Labor Secretary Fitzgerald Washington announced that Alabama's chronically low labor force participation rate for June was just 57.5%. Washington did point out that did amount to an increase of four-tenths of a percentage point from where we were a year ago in June 2023. The percentage of prime-age workers however did increased by 1.4 percentage points to 79.2% over the year. Prime-age workers are those aged 25-54 years. "The number of prime age workers increased...
Spirit Airlines will offer the only nonstop flight from Birmingham (BHM) to Fort Lauderdale (FLL) beginning this October. Spirit Airlines will provide low-fare travel from Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport (BHM) starting on October 10, 2024. Spirit will have the only nonstop flight from BHM to Fort Lauderdale (FLL). This will also be the first time the airline serves the state of Alabama and will provide low-fare flight options to the Sunshine State and one-stop connections to...
****UPDATE***** July 23, 2024 - while the below reporting was 100% accurate at the time that it was written, the ERLC has since retracted its statement firing Brent Leatherman. The Alabama Gazette has published a new story updating readers, https://www.alabamagazette.com/story/2024/07/01/news/span-classbrnwsbreaking-news-spanleatherman-survives-ouster-attempt/3664.html The uncomfortable relationship between the Southern Baptists and ERLC President Brent Leatherwood finally ended after...
On Tuesday, embattled Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned the day after a shockingly bad appearance before a congressional committee looking into the security lapses that nearly allowed the Assassination of former President Donald J. Trump (R). Congressman Dale Strong (R-Huntsville) said on X, "Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigning is the first step in accountability for the failure to protect President Trump, but the American people still deserve real answers. I am...
July 24, 2024 - On Monday ERLC President Brent Leatherwood was removed from his position for social media and press statements praising President Joseph R. Biden (D). It appeared that Leatherman's tenure heading the Baptist's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. That widely reported story changed very rapidly and by Tuesday it was confirmed that Leatherman has survived the ouster attempt. The Alabama Gazette spoke with Baptist pastor Rev. John Killian – a noted conservative – about the Lea...
On Wednesday, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) warned that Vice President Kamala Harris is "way more liberal than Joe Biden." On Sunday, President Joseph R. Biden (D) announced in a news release that he was dropping out of the 2024 election for President. He then endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in a post on the X social media platform. "This past weekend President Biden finally admitted that President Trump was right all along - Joe Biden was never mentally fit to be President,"...
NASA and Boeing hosted a news conference with mission leadership on Thursday, July 25, to provide the latest status of the agency's Boeing Crew Flight Test aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The spaceship was supposed to return to Earth weeks ago; but has been stranded there due to a series of helium leaks and issues with the thrusters/ While astronauts on the ship have been working on fixing the leaks, NASA and Boeing have been performing ground testing of the Reaction Control...
On Wednesday, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) spoke with members of the Alabama press corps about his growing concerns about the struggling farm economy. Tuberville said that "We have lost 150,000 farms since Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took office." Republicans and Democrats in Congress are at an impasse about differences in farm policy. This is largely over the size of the food assistance programs that are tied to the farm bill in Congress. The resulting partisan gridlock has made...
On Friday, former state Representative Fred "Coach" Plump (D-Fairfield) was sentenced by federal Judge Scott Coogler to one year in prison for his role in a kickback scheme that transferred $200,000 intended for underprivileged children. Plump received $400,000 in taxpayer dollars over a four-year period from then State John Rogers (D-Birmingham) intended for the Piper Davis Youth Baseball league Plump has long operated. Instead of spending the money on the children, Coach Plump gave half of it...
When did man first believe in God? Or gods? If some scientists' interpretation of an ice age figure found in a cave in Germany are correct, then there might not be an age where humanity did not believe in the existence of a divinity, In 1939 in a cave in Germany archaeologists found the rarest of relics. The figurine of a cave lion (a now extinct species of mane less lion common to Eurasia in the Ice Age) with human characteristic was carved from an ivory tusk 40,000 years ago. Man did not have...
The Washington Post's Ishaan Tharoor is reporting that fighting between two rival warlords in Sudan has escalated to an all-out civil war that has threatened the food security of close to a million people. In April 2023 fighting began in the capital city of Khartoum between forces loyal to General Abdel Fattah al-BURHAN, the top commander of the Sudanese armed forces, and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, "Hemedti", who commands the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, a militia with a long history of...
U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) spoke with members of the Alabama press corps on Wednesday about the attempt on former President Donald J. Trump's (R) life. Tuberville urged that the Secret Service provide full transparency into the investigation of went wrong that day. "On July 13 our nation watched in horror as a 20-year-old man tried to take the life of President Donald Trump at a political rally in Pennsylvania," Sen. Tuberville said. "We were centimeters away from one of the...
MOBILE, Ala., July 29, 2024 – U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Alabama) attended and delivered remarks at an event celebrating the U.S. Department of Transportation's $550 million grant for the controversial I-10 Mobile River Bridge and Bayway Project. USDOT and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) hosted the event to celebrate Alabama as a recipient of this competitive grant. Britt was joined by Governor Kay Ivey (R), Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson, Fairhope City Councilman Jack Burrell, Congressm...
On Monday, President Joseph R. Biden (D) introduced broad proposal he claims are necessary "to reform the Supreme Court and ensure no president is above the law." President Biden wrote in an op-ed in the Washington Post that his proposals are necessary to restore public trust in the judicial system. "We can and must prevent the abuse of presidential power and restore the public's faith in our judicial system." Biden is upset that the current Supreme Court has made a number of rulings that...
The situation in the Middle East was shaken on Tuesday when Israel announced that it had killed Fuad Shukr, Hezbollah's most senior military commander, with an attack on a headquarters building in a suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. In a separate incident, Iran announced that Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas's political wing, was killed in Iran. Iran describes Haniyeh's killed as "an assassination." Hamas and Iran are both blaming Israel. The Israeli Defense Forces declined to comment on Haniyeh's...
