Gov. John Patterson is our oldest living chief executive. Patterson is 99 years old and living on his ancestral family farm in rural Talla...

  The 2020 Alabama Legislative Session has resumed after a six-week hiatus due to the coronavirus shutdown of the state and the nation. The ...

  Earlier this month, Gov. Kay Ivey announced her plan to spend almost a billion dollars of taxpayer money to build three new prisons for me...

  The only sport that Alabamians enjoy more than Alabama politics is college football. We especially love the Alabama vs. Auburn football ga...

  Do you believe money should be taken out of our local public schools so that kids in Birmingham, Montgomery and other parts of the state c...

  For some untold reason or some would say, ungodly reason, I have always been enthralled by and involved in politics. As a boy growing up i...

  A few weeks back my column illuminated the career and influence attained by our senior U.S. Senator Richard Shelby. In the column and in m...

  A while back, during Dr. Robert Bentley’s tenure as governor, I wrote a column entitled, “They May as Well Move the Capitol to Tuscaloosa....

  Well, folks, we have had a more exciting and fun-filled political year than we expected. Usually, most of the fun is reserved for even-num...

  As we take a mid-year look at Alabama politics, it has been an eventful first half of the year.   It is not every year that a governor r...

  In Alabama politics, many times appointments to political offices filled by an acting governor have an adverse effect on that appointee if...

  Now more than ever, we need leaders – especially in the Alabama Senate where the lottery died last year – who will make the lottery a prio...

  As the race for our open U.S. Senate seat begins, let’s look at the lay of the land.   First of all, it will be a sprint. The race is up...

  Well, folks, let’s put the final coup de grace to Robert Bentley's six-year reign as governor and move on. Ole Bentley was quite a sto...

  “Senator Sanders, I called to let you know that Governor Robert Bentley will resign at 5:00 p.m. today and Lt. Governor Kay Ivey will be s...

  This week, Governor Ivey made the tough decision to hold the special election for our U.S. Senator this summer instead of waiting until ne...

  We in the Deep South have a unique history of political theatrics. The only northern states that rival our colorfulness are New Jersey and...

  Looking back on the last few days of Governor Bentley’s s now-infamous administration, I can’t help but think, “It never should have gotte...

  Lots of folks are still angry about our lame duck governor Robert Bentley naming Attorney General Luther Strange to Jeff Sessions' U.S...

  Last week we handicapped some of the potential horses in the upcoming 2018 governor’s race. We mentioned Judge Roy Moore, PSC President Tw...