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March 29, 2025 – State Representative Danny Garrett (R-Trussville) spoke on the Heart of Dixie Podcast with the Alabama Gazette's Brandon Moseley and Baldwin County Attorney Harry Still about proposed changes to the way Alabama funds education. Representative Garrett chairs the House Ways and Means Education Committee that prepares the $9.9 billion education trust fund (ETF) budget every year. Garrett explained the state's current education funding model. "The way the state funds education is a...
March 30, 2025 – ATLANTA, GA. The 2024/2025 Auburn University men's basketball team accomplished something that only one team in the history of the Auburn program has done: win an Elite Eight game to go to the Final Four. Auburn joins Duke, Florida, and Houston in San Antonio next weekend. Auburn, Duke, Florida, and Houston were all number one seeds in the NCAA Tournament and all four won their brackets to go to compete for a national championship. This is only the second time in NCAA history t...
On this day, March 30, 1981, a would-be assassin shot, and nearly killed, President Ronald W. Reagan (R). Presidents set their agenda in the first 100 days – and Reagan almost did not survive his. Reagan was leaving a meeting with AFL-CIO leaders when a mentally disturbed man fired six shots from a .22 caliber revolver at the President and his entourage. The assassin - John Hinckley Jr. - had an erotic obsession with the young actress Jodie Foster and thought assassinating the President would i...
April 8, 2025 – WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) advocated for improving the U.S.'s ability to build submarines during hearing on the state of nuclear shipbuilding at a Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower. Tuberville spoke to several top naval officers in the hearing. They spoke about strategies to better enable submarine and shipbuilding companies, like Mobile's Austal, to give the Navy the best possible product. The United States builds the best sub...
April 8, 2025 – The Alabama House Health Committee gave a favorable report on a bill that would regulate Delta 8, Delta 9, Delta 10, Delta 12 and other psychoactive cannabinoids derived from hemp. House Bill 445 (HB 445) is sponsored by State Representative Andy Whitt (R-Harvest). Whitt's legislation would penalize stores that sell psychoactive hemp products to people under 21, strictly regulate the advertising, ban the sale of cannabinoid infused drinks in restaurants and bars and give the A...
April 9, 2025 – MONTGOMERY, Al - The Alabama Senate passed bipartisan legislation to ban cell phones in schools. Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (R) applauded the move on social media. "The Senate unanimously passed the FOCUS Act, which removes the distraction of cell phones during students' classes," said Gov. Ivey on X. "There's a time and a place for our phones, but while a teacher is teaching is NOT it. Thank you, Sen. Donnie Chesteen. Let's get this bill to my desk!" Senate Bill 92 is s...
April 9, 2025 – MONTGOMERY, AL. - the Alabama House Education Policy Committee gave a favorable report to legislation that would protect children from schoolteachers indoctrinating K-12 students in pro-LGBTQ+ lifestyles including gender transitioning. House Bill 244 (HB 244) is sponsored by State Representative Mack Butler (R-Rainbow City). If passed, it would expand the state's existing ban on sexualizing children and promoting LGBTQ+ doctrines to include junior high and high school t...
April 9, 2025 – MONTGOMERY, AL - Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (R) shared her strong support for House Bill 437 (HB437) to establish a shark alert system under the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for beaches and shorelines in Baldwin and Mobile counties. HB437 is sponsored by State Representative David Faulkner (R-Mountain Brook). The bill is inspired by Mountain Brook teen Lulu Gribben. HB437 would enable Mobile and Baldwin County Emergency Management Agencies to warn i...
April 10, 2025 - WASHINGTON D.C. – The House of Representatives passed the Senate Republicans' budget framework by a vote of 216 to 214. Congresswoman Terri Sewell (D-AL07) voted against the bill. "The Republican budget takes food away from hungry families and makes massive cuts to health care in order to give trillions in tax breaks to the very wealthy," said Congresswoman Sewell in a statement. "Under their proposal, billionaires like Elon Musk get rewarded while hard working Alabama families...
Former Congressman Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) recently joined the Alabama Gazette's Brandon Moseley and the Alabama Political Contributor's Christopher Peeks on the Brandon and Christopher Show Podcast. A key topic was whether the United States should keep arming Ukraine in their ongoing war with Russia. We asked Congressman Brooks if Ukraine could win if we kept supplying them with western weapons. "Oh, absolutely. Our weaponry is so vastly superior to what the Russians and the Iranians and the N...
April 11, 2025 – NEW ORLEANS, LA – Federal Immigration judge James Comans ruled that former Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported. This ruling in favor of the federal government allows Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) to move forward with its deportation case against the former student Khalil is a foreign student at Columbia University. He is the leader of a student group that praised Hamas and distributed pamphlets associated with designated terrorist org...
Pastor Dean Odle is running for the Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Alabama, in the 2026 election. Odle spoke recently with Brandon Moseley and Christopher Peeks on the Brandon and Christopher Show (BCS) Podcast. "I just try to do what the Lord leads me to do and obey Him," Odle said. In 2022 Odle (despite the COVID shutdowns) ran as a political newcomer for Governor of Alabama against popular incumbent Governor Kay Ivey (R) and lost. "I spent the next year and a half to two...
April 12, 2025 – AUBURN, AL – The Auburn Tigers football team finished a disappointed year in 2024 at 5 and 7 – Auburn's fourth seven loss season in a row. That is all in the past now and Auburn is looking forward to a bright 2025 season. 2025 beings today with the Auburn A-Day practice. The practice is sponsored by Golden Flake and features a full weekend of activities on the Auburn campus. Admission is free and there will be a post-practice autograph session inside Jordan-Hare Stadium. In pr...
State Senator Greg Albritton (R-Range) recently spoke with Alabama Gazette Lead Reporter and Content Manager Brandon Moseley and the Alabama Political Contributor's Christopher Peeks on their Brandon and Christopher Show Podcast. Albritton chairs the powerful Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund committee which prepares the state general fund budget. On April 3, the House of Representatives passed a $3.7 billion state general fund budgetv – the largest in state history. That budget is now b...
Alabama Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries Rick Pate (R) recently joined the Brandon and Christopher Show Podcast about his role as Agriculture Commissioner. The Alabama Gazette's Brandon Moseley and the Alabama Political Contributor's Christopher Peeks host the weekly news/information podcast. Pate said that the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries is actually in charge of one of the largest state agencies. "We're a relatively big state agency," Commissioner Pate said of the...
April 10, 2025 – MONTGOMERY, AL – The Alabama Senate passed legislation to change how the state distributes funding to K-12 schools. In the current model, the state funds schools by taking a count of all the students and dividing the money between public schools based on the number of pupils in each system with the same per pupil amount per student, without regard as to whether a student is special needs, an English learner, or in poverty. The bill that passed in the Senate moves the state to a...
April 12, 2025 – VESTAVIA HILLS – State Representatives Jim Carns (R-Vestavia), Susan DuBose (R-Greystone), and Mike Shaw (R-Hoover) delivered their reports to the Mid-Alabama Republican Club (MARC) on the status of the ongoing 2025 Alabama regular legislative session. Rep. Carns said that the Legislature has passed pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) reform in hopes of "Saving the independent pharmacists." "We lost 50 of them in the last year," said Carns. "It was extremely heavy lifting for the...
April 8, 2025 -MONTGOMERY, AL – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (R) spoke to the Montgomery Kiwanis Club during National Crime Victims Week. Marshall also emphasized the work that the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency's (ALEA) Crime Suppression Unit is doing in association with the Montgomery Sheriff's Department. Marshall was introduced by former Montgomery Mayr Todd Strange. "I thought I would make you aware of a couple of issues," said Marshall. "This is National Crime Victims week." Nat...
Secretary of State Wes Allen announced today that Ohio is the latest in a long list of states to join Alabama's voter integrity database to cross-check the states' voter files and discover individuals registered to vote in both states. Alabama has previously entered into similar MOUs with all four border states, as well as, Arkansas, Louisiana, Kentucky, and Texas. Ohio is the ninth state to partner with Alabama as part of the Alabama Voter Integrity Database (AVID) voter file maintenance system...
April 12, 2025 – VESTAVIA HILLS – Alabama Agriculture and Industries Commissioner Rick Pate spoke to the Mid-Alabama Republican Club about his new 'Thank a Farmer' initiative. "We have the most abundant affordable and readily available food supply in the history of human civilization," said Commissioner Pate. "If you wake up and you have plenty of food you have a lot of problems to deal with work and kids. If you wake up and you don't have enough to eat you have one problem: what am I going to...
April 14, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-AL03) has released a statement in response to the Department of Defense Inspector General's report on the Biden Administration's decision to locate United States Space Command (SPACECOM) headquarters in Colorado even instead of Huntsville, Alabama. "The Inspector General's report confirms that the Trump Administration was correct in selecting Huntsville, AL, as the site for SPACECOM Headquarters, and r...
April 10, 2025 – MONTGOMERY, AL - The Alabama Senate passed the largest education trust fund (ETF) budget in the history of the state of Alabama on Thursday. Senate Bill 112 (SB 112) is sponsored by state Senator Arthur Orr (R-Decatur). SB112 would set a new record for the state ETF at $9.89 billion for the fiscal year 2026 budget year which starts on October 1. That is an increase of $543.3 million over the FY2025 budget – the current record all time high education budget - a 5.81% inc...
April 15, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL - Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (R) on Tuesday signed Senate Joint Resolution 63 to continue encouraging the President of the United States, the United States Secretary of Defense and the United States Secretary of the Air Force to immediately proceed in establishing a permanent headquarters for United States Space Command at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. "Alabama Republicans and Democrats – along with the facts – agree the U.S. Space Command Hea...
April 12, 2025 – MONTGOMERY, AL - The Alabama House of Representatives passed a bill that would regulate Delta 8, Delta 9, Delta 10, Delta 12 and other psychoactive cannabinoids derived from hemp. "This legislation is an effort to put guardrails on a current unregulated, unchecked, and dangerous industry," said Rep. Whitt. "And that is psychoactive cannabinoids known as Delta 8, Delta 9, and THC infused drinks." "We are putting these products under the purview of ABC (the Alcoholic Beverage Cont...
April 15, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. - On Mondy the Inspector General released a report showing that there was no national security reason for Space Command to go to Colorado instead of Alabama and in fact making the base in Colorado adequate for Space Command will cost $100s of millions of dollars. Former President Joseph R. Biden (D) made the inexplicable decision purely on political grounds. Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-AL04) issued a statement in response to the release of the Inspector Gener...
