The Department of Justice sued Alabama on Sept. 27 for improperly removing from the voter rolls more than 3,200 people the state claims are noncitizens, an expulsion that falls within the 90-day preelection “Quiet Period’ where states are forbidden from purging voter rolls. Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen announced a purge of 3,251 alleged … Read more
Alabama Republican congressional candidate Caroleene Dobson, who has been vocal about her support of school choice on the campaign trail, graduated from a private, so-called “segregation academy,” in 2005. Dobson, who is in a heated race in the newly court-drawn 2nd Congressional District against Democrat Shomari Figures, graduated from Monroe Academy, a private school in … Read more
The job market may have cooled a bit, but there are still far more job openings nationwide than there are people available to fill them. That means qualified workers are still a precious commodity. So, companies seeking to attract great employees like to set up shop in states that offer a great quality of life. … Read more
With hundreds of billions of dollars in new federal infrastructure spending under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the CHIPS and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act, companies are eager to cash in. And states are scrambling for their piece of the pie. “We have funding that goes to projects that come from every state, city, … Read more
(NewsNation) — Patrick Braxton, elected as the first Black mayor of Newbern, Alabama, in 2020, is set to be reinstated to his position, years after he says white officials locked him out of town hall. Braxton, according to Al.com, filed a lawsuit against Newbern in federal court. On Friday, the two parties agreed to settle, … Read more
Residents in a small Alabama town will be able to vote in their own municipal elections for the first time in decades after a four-year legal battle. A proposed settlement has been reached in the town’s voting rights case, allowing Newbern, a predominantly Black town with 133 residents, to hold its first legitimate elections in … Read more
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers on Thursday advanced legislation that could see librarians prosecuted under the state’s obscenity law for providing “harmful” materials to minors, the latest in a wave of bills in Republican-led states targeting library content and decisions. The Alabama House of Representatives voted 72-28 for the bill that now moves to … Read more
Image: Mercedes-Benz The American South is deeply conservative and has held an anti-union stance since the Confederates. If unionizing trends keep going in this direction, however, that may no longer be the case. Some 5,200 Mercedes-Benz factory workers in Vance will cast their ballot on the issue of unionizing next month. The good news for … Read more
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The secretaries of state for Alabama and Ohio sent letters to President Joe Biden’s campaign, the Democratic National Committee and state parties warning that the president may miss the deadline to be included on their states’ general election ballots, even though both states have allowed candidates to appear on the ballots in similar circumstances in … Read more
