The Alabama House of Representatives, this week, passed HB298 by Rep. Brock Colvin (R-Albertville). This legislation would exclude certain English language learner students from a public school’s average daily membership when determining athletic competition classification.
The Alabama House of Representatives has passed the Education Trust Fund Budget and its supplemental appropriation for Fiscal Year 26.
It has been 3 months since President Trump has entered the White House. In less than 100 days, President Trump and his administration have already identified more than $155 billion in government waste, fraud and abuse that has gone unchecked for decades.
(The Center Square) – President Trump will be giving the commencement address at the University of Alabama for the first time and West Point for the second, with more details to come.
The Alabama House of Representatives has passed the Laken Riley Act.
The 2026 election season has begun. It is our big election year in Alabama politics. All our Constitutional offices, including Governor, Lt. Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State, State Treasurer, and State Auditor are up for election. You will also have two seats on the State Supreme Court up for election as well as two seats on the Public Service Commission. In addition, and probably more importantly, all 140 seats in the Alabama State Legislature are up for election and one of our coveted two U.S. Senate seats will be up for election. The seat currently held by Coach Tommy Tuberville will be on the ballot for a six-year term.
Two hundred years ago, the Marquis de Lafayette spent nine days in Alabama traveling across the midwestern portion of the state from Georgia to Montgomery and then to Selma, the Capitol at Cahawba, and downriver to Mobile.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall joined a 27-state brief in the U.S. Supreme Court defending the Trump administration’s recent actions to combat Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. The attorneys general are also calling for a stay of a district court’s recent temporary restraining order that halts President Trump’s actions to combat this violent gang, which has now been designated a foreign terrorist organization.
The inclusion of a magazine editor on what our foreign policy team thought was a secure channel, the strong possibility that classified material was posted on this private chat, and the ever-changing stories and competing claims by those involved shows why our U.S. Congress needs to do its job, and investigate what happened. Otherwise, our government will continue to make such blunders, making it easier for our adversaries to find out exactly what we’re doing.
It’s “Sunshine Week”, a time when we celebrate one of the bedrocks of American democracy: Open government. It’s timed to coincide with the birthday of James Madison, known as the father of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Madison believed deeply in the importance of access to information in a free society, and in the press as an essential tool for self-governance.
