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March 29, 2025 – State Representative Danny Garrett (R-Trussville) spoke on the Heart of Dixie Podcast with the Alabama Gazette's Brandon Moseley and Baldwin County Attorney Harry Still about proposed changes to the way Alabama funds education. Representative Garrett chairs the House Ways and Means Education Committee that prepares the $9.9 billion education trust fund (ETF) budget every year. Garrett explained the state's current education funding model. "The way the state funds education is a...
March 27, 2025 – NEWARK, N.J – The number two seeded University of Alabama men's basketball team thoroughly dominated BYU 113 to 88. The 25 point rout keeps Alabama's hopes of a Final Four appearance alive. Big games are where bigtime talents rise to the top and Alabama Senior Guard Mark Sears had one of the best performances of his career on Thursday. Sears had 17 points in the first half alone on his way to a 34-point individual performance that included an incredible ten 3-point shots mad...
March 28, 2025 – ATLANTA, GA - The number one seeded Auburn Tigers men's basketball team will be playing for a berth in the Final Four on Sunday after defeating Michigan 78 to 65 Friday night. Auburn had a 30 to 29 lead at halftime; but Michigan was totally unprepared for the defensive intensity of Auburn in the second half. It was a down shooting night for the Tigers who shot just 39.4 percent from the field and 28.6 percent from the three-point line. Auburn was 3 of 16 from 3 in the first half...
March 29, 2025 – Newark, NJ. – The University of Alabama men's basketball team had their season come to an end on Saturday night when they faced the number one seeded Duke Blue Devils, Duke cruised to an 85 to 65 win over the Tide, Duke's Freshman phenom Cooper Flagg was a mismatch for Alabama. He did not have a as great a game as he had in Thursday's matchup with Arizona earlier; but his early 3 – point shots made set a tone that Alabama did not have a player who could match up with the six f...
On this day, March 30, 1981, a would-be assassin shot, and nearly killed, President Ronald W. Reagan (R). Presidents set their agenda in the first 100 days – and Reagan almost did not survive his. Reagan was leaving a meeting with AFL-CIO leaders when a mentally disturbed man fired six shots from a .22 caliber revolver at the President and his entourage. The assassin - John Hinckley Jr. - had an erotic obsession with the young actress Jodie Foster and thought assassinating the President would i...
March 30, 2025 – ATLANTA, GA. The 2024/2025 Auburn University men's basketball team accomplished something that only one team in the history of the Auburn program has done: win an Elite Eight game to go to the Final Four. Auburn joins Duke, Florida, and Houston in San Antonio next weekend. Auburn, Duke, Florida, and Houston were all number one seeds in the NCAA Tournament and all four won their brackets to go to compete for a national championship. This is only the second time in NCAA history t...
March 30, 2025 – BIRMINGHAM, AL – Guadalupe Radio Director Marty Matulia completed his lecture series at St. Mark the Evangelist Con the Early Church Fathers who collectively defined Christianity and helped establish our current understanding of the nature of Jesus Christ and our faith. The Guadalupe Radio Network operates several EWTN affiliated radio station in Texas, Alabama, and Florida. https://www.grnonline.com/home?station=GRN Matulia explained that the first age of Christian Fathers was...
On this day in 1965, in Selma, all white Alabama State Troopers, acting on the orders of Gov. George Wallace (D), aided by local law enforcement and citizen volunteers, used tear gas, clubs and brute force to prevent peaceful voting rights marchers from crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The march had been organized by Rev. Joseph Lowery, future Congressman John Lewis and local leaders who had planned a Selma to Montgomery march to protest the state of Alabama's systemic disenfranchisement of...
On March 10, 1945, an estimated 100,000 Japanese died in Tokyo after 334 US B-29 Superfortress heavy bombers attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bombs. In the 1930s, Army Air Corps planners studying at the Air Corps Tactical School at Montgomery's Maxwell Field developed the principle of high-altitude daytime precision bombing. While the British abandoned precision daylight bombing for nighttime fire-bombing in 1942, the U.S. Army Air Corps targeted individual factories, railyards, refineries, ports,...
March 9, 2025 – Body camera video of the last minutes of Otis French Jr. by Bay Minette police officer was released to Twitter. On August 22, 2023 – French, a 32-year-old Black man, was killed after the White Bay Minette police officer, Brandon Thompson, pulled him over near his home because a blinker light was out on his vehicle. Officer Thompson was giving French a warning ticket for the mechanical violation; when he asked French to get out of the car. Then things just went completely out of c...
As anybody who has managed a workforce of substantial size already knows, Alabama has a drug and mental health problem; but the state and the University of Alabama are teaming up to help employers deal with this challenging element of the state's workforce. The state is offering businesses free training to help supervisors identify and respond to mental health and substance abuse issues within the workforce. The University of Alabama's VitAL partnership uses education and training to help...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) told reporters recently that proposed budget cuts to Medicaid and healthcare will be targeted toward waste, fraud, and abuse rather than service cuts. The Alabama Gazette asked Senator Tuberville about the House budget bill that had passed that decreased the amount of money for Medicaid and healthcare spending. We asked Tuberville if he was concerned that if they go too far with the Medicaid and healthcare cuts causing more of our r...
March 6, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Shomari C. Figures (D-AL02) and Rep. Terri Sewell (D-AL07) sent a joint letter on Thursday calling for the immediate removal of the Freedom Rides Museum from the U.S. General Services Administration's (GSA) list of properties slated for sale. "The museum serves as an essential historical landmark that not only honors the legacy of the Freedom Riders but also educates the public about our nation's struggle for equality and justice," Figures and Sewell wrote...
March 8, 2025 - AUBURN, AL. – The University of Alabama men's basketball team narrowly edged out Auburn in overtime to split the season series. All-American Johni Broome (Senior forward/center) played lights out in a nip and tuck game where he set a career-high of 34, 8 rebounds, and 3 assists. Broome hit a three-point shot to give Auburn a one-point lead with a little over a minute to play; but the Tide fought back down the stretch. Broome hit another three-point shot with 14 seconds left in O...
February 21, 2025 – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The state of Alabama suffered a devastating loss in a cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. The court found that people denied unemployment claims by the state during the COVID pandemic can sue the state. During the COVID-19 pandemic the state shut down in a failed attempt to stop the spread of the virus – which at that time was new to the country. The result was that hundreds of thousands of workers were suddenly jobless. Unemployment claims soared and t...
March 7, 2025 – MONTGOMERY, AL. – The Alabama House of Representatives Ways and Means Education Committee carried over a controversial bill, opposed by immigrant rights groups, that would have put a fee on international wire transfers. The move was touted as an anti-illegal immigration bill. House Bill 297 (HB297) is sponsored by State Representative Jennifer Fidler (R-Fairhope). Fidler said that the wire transfer fee would affect individuals who are using a service such as Western Union, MoneyG...
March 6, 2025 – MONTGOMERY, AL. – The Alabama House of Representatives passed Governor Kay Ivey's (R) hostile takeover of the Alabama department of Veterans Affairs legislation with little discussion. Senate Bill 67 (SB67) was sponsored by State Representative Andrew Jones (R-Centre) and carried in the House by State Representative Ed Oliver (R-Dadeville). The Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs was created by veterans following World War II and for seventy years has been a nonpartisan age...
March 5, 2025 – The Alabama House of Representatives passed bipartisan legislation that would make it easier for prosectors to punish persons who make terroristic threats against schools. House Bill 233 (HB233) is sponsored by State Representative Alan Baker (R-Brewton). Baker said that HB233 deals making it easier to prosecute persons who are making terrorist threats against schools. "This would allow a district attorney to bring charges for making a terrorist threat against a school without p...
March 5, 2025 – MOBILE, AL – The Mobile community was rocked by the news that VT Aerospace was closing its operations at Mobile's Brookley Aeroplex costing the city of Mobile 290 jobs. Mobile Mayor Stephen Nodine blamed the lack of leadership for the company moving those jobs elsewhere. Nodine was formerly the Chairman of the Mobile County Commission. At that time Airbus was attempting to obtain a tanker contract from the Air Force – a contract they ultimately lost despite problems with the B...
MARCH 5, 2025 – MONTGOMERY, AL – The Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund Committee voted to reject legislation that would have charged $5 a year on every car license plate in the state to fund public transportation. Senate Bill 11 (SB11) is sponsored by state Senator Linda Coleman Madison (D-Birmingham). "Alabama has let billions of dollars go back to the federal government because we do not have a dedicated funding source for public transportation," said Sen. Coleman Madison. Sen. Col...
March 3, 2025 – WASHINGTON, D.C. – There are reports circulating that the U.S. may be cutting off military aid to Ukraine. U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) recently spoke to members of the Alabama press corps about the Ukraine war with Russia. Tuberville said that President Donald J. Trump "wants to get this (the war) over with." "Over the last three years. unfortunately, we have spent way too much money and got way too many killed people on both sides," said Senator Tuberville. The...
February 28, 2025 – MONTGOMERY, AL - The Alabama Attorney General's office was taken aback by Governor Kay Ivey's (R) decision to commute the death sentence of convicted murderer Robin "Rocky" Myers. Alabama Attorney General Marshall (R) releases a statement on Governor Ivey's decision to commute the death sentence of Rocky Myers for the 1990 slaying of Ludie Mae Tucker. Marshall said that he was "astonished" and "bewildered" by the Governor's decision and said that the surprise move "...
March 1, 2025 – HOOVER, AL - The Alabama Republican Executive Committee met for its annual Winter Meeting at the Hyatt Hotel. The Committee was celebrating its dominance not just of Alabama politics; but also the inau Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) addressed the group about the changes brought by Trump's victorious return to D.C. "It is really a new day in Washington," Rep. Aderholt said. "A lot of people are talking about the executive orders – the Democrats can't stand that – b...
February 27, 2025 – MONTGOMERY, AL - The Alabama Port Authority and CSX Railroad broke ground on the Montgomery Intermodal Container Transfer Facility (ICTF). Governor Kay Ivey (R) and Speaker of the House Nathaniel Ledbetter (R-Rainsville) joined business, economic development, and local leaders at the site for the groundbreaking of this state-of-the-art facility that will enhance freight mobility and stimulate economic growth throughout the region. "Whether it's boosting freight t...
February 28, 2025 – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ukraine is running out of men to place on its frontlines going into the fourth year of its war with Russia and it may also be running out of American arms as well after a shocking exchange at the White House that devolved into a shouting match between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, President Donald J. Trump (R), and Vice President J.D. Vance (R). U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) called Zelensky's outburst "an absolute disgrace" aft...
