Mike Cason
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Alabama GOP won’t support Ronna McDaniel as party’s national chair
McDaniel, former leader of the Republican Party in Michigan, has been RNC chair since 2017. → Read More
Alabama archives transferring Native American remains to Indian tribes with ties to state
The Alabama Department of Archives and History has closed and plans to redesign its exhibit on indigenous cultures. → Read More
Alabama’s new budget to extend Medicaid coverage for mothers after childbirth
Medicaid pays for about one-half of births in Alabama, but postpartum coverage has lasted for only 60 days. → Read More
Medicaid expansion advocates tout Alabama Arise poll, PARCA report
Alabama is one of 12 states that have not expanded Medicaid since 2010 because the Republican governors and Republican-led Legislature have not supported it. → Read More
Democrats plan to greet Trump with ‘Welcome to Alabama, Liar’ billboards
The Alabama Democratic Party is sending out fundraising emails denouncing Donald Trump's upcoming rally in Cullman. They say it could be a super-spreader event for COVID. → Read More
Gov. Kay Ivey signs bill allowing yoga in Alabama public schools
The new law ends a ban on yoga in schools adopted by the state Board of Education in 1993. → Read More
Alabama lawmakers again seek to ban transgender treatments for minors
A bill by Rep. Wes Allen would prohibit medications that block or delay puberty for minors who believe their gender does not match their biological sex. → Read More
Tommy Tuberville says $600 unemployment boost ‘way too much’
The Republican Senate nominee was a guest this morning on WERC radio in Birmingham and talked about the debate in Washington over a new coronavirus relief package. → Read More
Poll shows Tuberville leading Sessions in U.S. Senate race
The polling firm Cygnal released results of a survey of likely Republican primary voters conducted May 7-10. → Read More
Presidential candidates join jam-packed march on Bloody Sunday
Most of the Democratic candidates for president were in Selma today for the 55th commemoration of the voting rights march in 1965. → Read More
Republicans Jeff Coleman, Will Dismukes seeking Martha Roby’s congressional seat
Roby announced last week she would not seek a sixth term representing Alabama's 2nd Congressional District. → Read More
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signs ‘chemical castration’ bill into law
Sex offenders whose victims are younger than 13 will have to receive a medication to block or reduce testosterone as a condition of parole. → Read More
Alabama Senate passes education budget, teacher raise
The Senate approved a budget that would spend more than $7 billion from the Education Trust Fund for the first time. → Read More
Court wants list of mentally ill Alabama inmates kept in segregation
A rise in suicides in Alabama prisons has prompted new concerns about keeping mentally ill inmates in single cells. → Read More
Judges hear appeal challenging law that blocked Birmingham minimum wage
A three-judge federal panel heard arguments about a state law passed in 2016 blocked the Birmingham City Council's minimum wage. → Read More
Alabama House passes bill to end Senate special elections
House General Fund budget committee chairman Rep. Steve Clouse, R-Ozark, said last year's election will cost about $11 million. → Read More
Doug Jones certified as winner of Alabama U.S. Senate race
Secretary of State John Merrill, Gov. Kay Ivey and Attorney General Steve Marshall meet at 1 p.m. to certify the official vote in the Dec. 12 special election, won by Doug Jones over Roy Moore. → Read More
Today is the last day to register to vote in Alabama Senate election
Voters will decide between Roy Moore and Doug Jones on Dec. 12. Here's how to register. → Read More
Gov. Kay Ivey to vote for Roy Moore in U.S. Senate race
Earlier this week, Ivey had said she was withholding judgment before making a decision in the Senate race. → Read More
Gov. Kay Ivey to 'hold judgment' on vote for Roy Moore
Ivey said that based on what she knows now she will vote for Moore, but said more information could come out. → Read More