April 17, 2024 – State Leaders all aboard on “Working for Alabama” Plan
Anyone who follows the Legislative Session each year in Montgomery, knows that it is never short of controversy. The House has its priorities, the…
April 10, 2024 – 2nd District Primary Runoffs This Week
Those of you who live in the new 2nd congressional district have runoffs this coming Tuesday, April 16. This is the most interesting and…
April 3, 2024 – Presidential Race Looks Like a Biden/Trump Rematch
We Americans are going to the polls in seven months, to elect the next President of the United States. Election day is November 5. We are getting…
March 27, 2024 – Population and Political Power Now Rests in North Alabama
Growing up as a teenager in the 1960’s, I served as a Page in the Alabama Legislature. One day when I was around 13 years old, I was looking around…
March 20, 2024 – Runoffs Set for New 2nd District Congressional Primary Races
The most interesting and paramount race on the ballot in the March 5th primaries was the one for the new open 2nd Congressional District. This…
March 13, 2024 – Few Surprises in March 5th Primary Results
There were very few surprises in our March 5 primary results. Since we are essentially a one-party Republican state when it comes to presidential,…
March 6, 2024 – Political Potpourri
I hope you all voted in the primaries yesterday. You have an advantage on me in that I have to go to press with my column before Wednesday, my…
February 28, 2024 – Primary Next Week
This coming Tuesday, March 5, is Primary Election Day in Alabama. Your vote next week is probably as important this Tuesday as it will be in the…
February 21, 2024 – It Appears the Qualification to Run in the Democratic Primary for the New 2nd Congressional District is You Should Not Live in the District.
“Friends and Neighbors” politics and “all politics is local” has gone by the wayside. Instead, we are a state and nation divided along partisan and…
February 14, 2024 – State Senate Leaders
Last week we discussed the Alabama House of Representatives and highlighted the leaders in the House. This week we will talk about the prominent…