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Currently the jet stream takes warm air off of the Southeastern United States and Gulf of Mexico and takes it to Europe making Europe warmer than comparable latitudes in the U.S., Canada, or Siberia. A new study by scientists however suggests that all that could change due to global warming, changing the direction of the jet stream and plunging Europe into ice age conditions. Rome is near the 41st parallel. So is New York City, Iowa, Wyoming, and North Korea. London is just south of the 51st...
On Friday, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (R) announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) has awarded a $550 million discretionary grant from the Bridge Investment Program to the Mobile River Bridge and Bayway Project. The major grant award is believed to be one of the largest federal grants ever received for an Alabama project and is the second-largest in the program’s history. The grant breathes new life to the decades-long project to build a new Interstate 10 Bridge and Bayway c...
On Wednesday, U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Alabama) questioned Chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed) Jerome Powell during a Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing. She voiced her concerns over the long-term debt proposed rule and instituting it prior to the full implementation of the Basel III Endgame proposal. "Chair Powell, I have repeatedly talked about my concern with [the] long-term debt proposal and just think that it has not been well thought through," said Senator...
On Monday Congressman Mike Rogers (R-Saks) announced that he and Congressman Adam Smith (D-Washington), the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee have just returned from a congressional delegation trip to Europe to discuss national security threats from space. Congressman Gary Palmer (R-Hoover) was a part of the bipartisan congressional delegation to Luxembourg, France, and Italy. There they discussed allied cooperation on National Security Space. Joining Rogers,...
Reports have surfaced that the U.S. Army has been training soldiers that pro-life Americans are dangerous extremists who pose a terror risk to the military. Congressman Mike Rogers (R-Saks) and Jim Banks (R-Indiana) led a letter of House Armed Service Committee members expressing their outrage at this systematic demonization of pro-life Americans. Banks is the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Military Personnel, and Rogers is the Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. They led their...
**Updated 7-17 On Saturday, former President Donald J. Trump (R) was wounded in an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. Trump was hit in the ear while addressing supporters at the rally. Had the bullet been an inch and a half to the right Trump would almost certainly have been killed. The shooter has been killed by law enforcement. An AR-15 style rifle was recovered at the scene. The shooter reportedly fired eight rounds from a rooftop reportedly 250 yards away The media is reporting...
On Sunday, former President Donald J. Trump (R) released a statement on Truth Social crediting God for his survival of an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday. Trump thanked his supporter for their thoughts and prayers and asked the nation to pray for the other victims. One man was killed at the rally and two more men were critically wounded. "Thank you to everyone for your thoughts and prayers yesterday, as it was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening,"...
On Sunday, President Joseph R. Biden (D) spoke with reporters in the aftermath of the attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump (R) in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday. "Last night, I spoke with Donald Trump," said President Biden. "I am sincerely grateful that he is doing well and recovering. We had a short but good conversation. Jill and I are keeping him and his family in our prayers." "We also extend our deepest condolences to the family of the victim who was killed,"...
On Monday, former President Donald J. Trump (R) won a major court victory when federal Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the case against President Trump. This is the case over the alleged mishandling of classified information. Judge Cannon ruled that special counsel Jack Smith was not lawfully appointed. This was the first time one of his four criminal cases has been dismissed entirely. "The Superseding Indictment is dismissed because Special Counsel Smith's appointment violates the Appointments...
Seven people were slain and ten were wounded Saturday in two events in Birmingham. On Sunday Birmingham Police Chief Scott Thurmond and Mayor Randall Woodfin said that the two events were "targeted" shootings. Birmingham Councilwoman Latonya Tate, Jefferson County Sheriff Mark Pettway, members of the US Attorney's Office, US Marshalls, Secret Service, FBI, and ATF also attended the news conference. "The last 24 hours, we lost seven community members, and 10 others were injured by gun violence. T...
The Republican National Convention opened on Monday with President Donald J. Trump (R) having just survived an assassination attempt on Saturday. Trump will be the Republican nominee for President of the United States for the third consecutive time. If the assassin's bullet had been one and a half inches to the right, the GOP delegates would have been meeting in Milwaukee today without a candidate. Fortunately, that did not happen. Trump will announce his running mate today. The finalists are...
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...
