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The 2025 Alabama Legislative session n does not begin until early February; but already the wheels are in motion for the next session and legislators are already prefiling dozens of bills. Legislators have already filed four bills restricting firearms. House Bill 26 (HB26) by State Rep. Phillip Ensler (D-Montgomery), HB23 by Rep. Kenyatta Hassell (D-Montgomery), HB13 by Rep. Juandalynn Givan (D-Birmingham), and HB12 – also by Givan. HB26, the Glock switch bill, by Ensler is likely to pass in s...
Auburn improved to 2 and 1 on Saturday at Jordan-Hare Stadium with a blowout win over New Mexico 45 to 19. Auburn opened the first two games of the season with Senior Payton Thorne starting at quarterback; but after week two's disappointing offensive performance in the home loss to California at Berkley Coach Hugh Freeze made a change at quarterback. Freeze announced on Friday that freshman quarterback Hank Brown would be the starter against New Mexico. That gamble by the coaching staff paid big...
It was billed as Bama's toughest test yet- a SEC powerhouse program versus one of the historically top 4 or 5 Big 10 programs. What it turned out to be was another tune-up game ahead of the University of Alabama's Southeastern Conference opener. The Tide journeyed all the way to Madison Wisconsin and thoroughly throttled the outmanned Badgers 42 to 10. It was Coach Kalen DeBoer's third win as the Tide's head coach and it was utter domination. The Tide defense was pushed on the first drive by...
On Wednesday, law enforcement in New York are denying reports that a bomb was found in a car inside the security perimeter where former President Donald J. Trump (R) is scheduled to hold a rally this evening. President Trump is scheduled to speak at the Nassau Coliseum on Long Island. Thousands of supporters are already lined up in the area to hear the former President speak at 6:00 p.m. C.D.T. "Sources in the Nassau County Police Department just told me that 'the perimeter was breached and a...
September 19, 2024 – WASHINGTON -The federal fiscal year ends in just eleven days and again Senate leadership has not brought what should be routine appropriations bills to the floor of the Senate for amendments and an up or down vote. U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Alabama) on Wednesday delivered a speech on the Senate floor calling for the consideration of the Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act and the FY25 Defense A...
The Alabama Gazette panel correctly picked that Georgia would defeat Kentucky; but most of us thought that Georgia would win it by four touchdowns. The hard fought defensive contest that they actually played in the third week of the SEC season was entirely unanticipated by most of the staff. The staff was divided on the LSU versus South Carolina game and we were correct in that game could have gone either way. Most of the panel failed to predict Toledo's dominance over Mississippi State. More...
September 19, 2024 – WASHINGTON – U.S Representatives Mike Rogers (R-Alabama) and Adam Smith (D-Washington), the Chairman and the Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee, recently led a bipartisan congressional delegation visit to Silicon Valley. Joining them on the visit were U.S. Representatives John Garamendi (D-California), Matt Gaetz (R-Florida), Ro Khanna (D-California), Carlos Gimenez (R-Florida), Sara Jacobs (D-California), Nancy Mace (R-Sourth Carolina), Marc Veasey (D-...
September 17, 2024 – Montgomery – retired longtime state legislator Priscilla Dunn (D-Bessemer) passed away she was age 80. On Thursday, Congresswoman Terri Sewell (D-AL07) spoke on the House Floor to honor the life and legacy of former State Senator Dunn. "A lifelong educator and trailblazing public servant, Senator Dunn dedicated her life to the betterment of her community and the State of Alabama," said Rep. Sewell in her House floor speech. "In 1961, she graduated from Abrams High School in...
Overall the Alabama Gazette panel had a good week picking Southeastern Conference football games. More teams will be starting conference play this week so expect some real wars like the LSU v. South Carolina and Georgia v. Kentucky games this week. A number of teams are still playing out of conference opponents. SEC games of the week Florida is at Mississippi State Ohio is at Kentucky Arkansas is at Auburn UCLA is at LSU Vanderbilt is at Missouri Akron is at Sout Carolina Bowling Green is at...
The UAB Blazers football team traveled to Arkansas on September 14 and picked up their second loss of the season. UAB was stepping up in class to play a Southeastern Conference powerhouse – the Arkansas Razorbacks. UAB looked much improved over its week 2 performance against ULM; but still picked up the L – 27 to 37. UAB has started the season 1 and 2. The game was tied at halftime at 20 points; but Arkansas dominated the second half 7 to 17. UAB moved the ball at will racking up 354 yards of to...
Auburn has played four opponents. They crushed SWAC Alabama State (2-1), lost to the University of California, beat (0-3) New Mexico, and now have been defeated by their first SEC opponent in Arkansas (3-1) 24 to 14. It was Auburn's second five turnover performance and Auburn's second disappointing home loss. Auburn though they had their quarterback situation settled moving forward after the win over New Mexico. Nothing could be further from the truth in the wake of Saturday's performance at...
September 20, 2024 – Winfield – State Representative Tracy Estes (R-Winfield) presentative had a protection order filed against him accusing him of making violent threats. Estes was booked for a misdemeanor charge of domestic violence. The charges were made by his wife – Christina Estes. Christina Estes, said in a legal filing that Rep. Estes cursed her during an argument at their home on Friday. She then locked herself in her room. He then spent two hours beating on the dorr and threa...
September 22, 2024 – Birmingham - 21 people were shot – four of them fatally – in a mass shooting at a night club at Birmingham's Five Points South. Congresswoman Terri A Sewell (D-AL07) released a statement following Saturday night's shooting. "I am heartbroken by last night's horrific mass shooting in Five Points South," said Rep. Sewell. "I join in extending my sincere condolences to the families whose loved ones were lost, and I pray for a full and speedy recovery for those injured." "We a...
September 19, 2024 – Washinton, D.C. - Congressman Barry Moore (R-AL02) released a statement after voting in support of a continuing resolution that would have kept the government funded for six months and includes the SAVE Act. The SAVE Act amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office. Rep. Moore is a co-sponsor of this legislation. Since the beginning of the Biden-Harris A...
September 23, 2024 - WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama), Katie Britt (R-Alabama), Bill Hagerty (R-Tennessee), Tim Kaine (D-Virginia.), Ted Budd (R-North Carolina), and John Barrasso (R-Wyoming) introduced the Defending American Property Abroad Act in retaliation to efforts on the part of the Mexican government to seize a port owned by Alabama based Vulcan Materials. The Defending American Property Abroad Act would impose retaliatory prohibitions against the Government...
September 24, 2024 – Moody, Alabama – The Moody Police Department (MPD) announced that they have made an arrest of an individual for making threats to Moody Schools. "We are aware of the screenshots being shared about a threat to Moody Middle School and the schools in general," the MPD announced in a statement released to Facebook on Monday. "We want the public to know that we are already investigating these threats currently. We will also have an increased presence at all schools this wee...
September 24, 2024 – Moody, Alabama – the Moody Police Department (MPD) has released a statement announcing the arrest of a juvenile for making terrorist threats targeting the Moody Middle School. The MPD received numerous reports of terroristic threats on Snapchat suggesting that gun violence would be perpetrated against Moody schools as early as today. Moody police and detectives worked throughout Monday night to identify the individual responsible for the threats and alert school off...
September 24, 2024 – Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) and Katie Britt (R-Alabama) released a rare joint press release to announced that they have joined U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and 41 Republican colleagues from both Houses of Congress in signing a letter urging President Joseph R. Biden (D) and Vice President Kamala D. Harris (D) to work with Congress to root out abuses in the unaccompanied alien children (UAC) program and stop what they called the D...
Auburn stepped up in competition to open SEC play versus Arkansas and the wheels came off. This shocked most of the Alabama Gazette panel – who outside of the Tigers' lackluster performance had a good week picking Southeastern Conference football games in week four. The SEC games of the week were: Florida won at Mississippi State 45 to 28 Ohio lost at Kentucky 6 to 41 Arkansas won at Auburn 24 to 14 UCLA lost at LSU 17 to 34 Vanderbilt lost at Missouri 27 to 30 Akron lost at Sout Carolina 7 t...
UPDATED September 27,2024 at 4:42 a.m. Hurricane Helene tracked further to the east than predicted in this article. It hit Florida at around 10:00 p.m. on Thursday night at a powerful Category 4 storm. The eye of the storm made landfall in Taylor County (to the east of where it was anticipated to hit. The Hurricane is tracking now towards Macon, Georgia. This more easterly track means that Alabama will not be heavily impacted by Helene. September 25,2025 Hurricane Helene developed rapidly in...
September 23, 2024 - Montgomery. – The Alabama House Democratic Caucus issues a statement following a mass shooting incident in Birmingham on Saturday night that left 21 people shot – four of them dead. The lawmakers used this incident to target Alabama's permitless carry bill (passed in 2022 and to promote legislation that would make it a felony to possess a "Glock cap" – a device that converts a semiautomatic handgun to one that functions as an automatic weapon. "Words cannot describe the g...
September 27, 2024 – Florida - Hurricane Helene hit the Florida Gulf Coast in the Big Bend region overnight as a Category 4 storm that was 400 miles wide at its apex. The storm which developed quickly impacted a larger area of the Gulf Coast than anticipated just 48 – and even 24 – hours earlier. It is still dark but there are fears of massive destruction and deaths from the storm. The storm tracked further east than earlier anticipated so has not and will not impact Alabama as severely as ea...
September 26,2024 – Atmore – the State of Alabama executed triple-murderer Alan Miller by Nitrogen Hypoxia. This is only the second time that someone has been executed using nitrogen hypoxia. Alan Eugene Miller spent decades behind bars awaiting his execution for the senseless murders of Lee Holdbrooks, Christopher Yancy, and Terry Jarvis. The execution was performed at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama after Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (R) told Corrections Com...
September 26, 2024 – Washington – U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) recently said that Vice President and Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States Kamala Harris (California) got in this position because she is someone that Democratic Party elites "Can Control." Tuberville made these comments in an interview on Fox Business Channel's Maria Bartiromo. Bartiromo told Tuberville, "Vice President Kamala Harris sat for her first solo interview since launching her Pre...
The SEC conference season is heating up this week with both Alabama and Auburn hosting major SEC opponents. Most people have Alabama and Georgia as two of the best three teams in the conference. The two play in Tuscaloosa this week for supremacy and that coveted first track spot towards going to Atlanta for the SEC Championship game. Auburn (2-2) faces its toughest opponent yet when Oklahoma comes to the Plains on Saturday. The SEC games of the week are: Kentucky at Ole Miss Arkansas at Texas...
