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Is there ever a right time to start a family? Becoming a parent these days, writes Rachel Wiseman in the recent book "What Are Children For?", can seem "less like a transition and more like throwing yourself off a cliff." It is clear that people are waiting longer to hurl themselves into the abyss: Since the 1990s, the birth rate for women in their late 30s and early 40s has steadily increased, while declining for women in their teens and 20s. In an era that combines reliable contraception with...
February 4, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL - Senate President Pro Tem Garlan Gudger (R - Cullman) announced on Tuesday that he has hired Ashley McLain, a veteran education advocate and public policy professional with 23 years of experience, to serve in his office as deputy chief of staff for policy and budgets. McLain most recently served as the governmental affairs director of the School Superintendents of Alabama, an association dedicated to improving public education and promoting the positions of loc...
Sens. Tuberville and Moran Introduce Legislation to Improve Access to Care for Veterans February 3, 2025 – WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) joined U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kansas) in cosponsoring the Veterans' Assuring Critical Care Expansions to Support Servicemembers (ACCESS) Act of 2025. The sponsors claim that their legislation would increase access to care for veterans through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) providers in the community. "Veterans hav...
Halfway through director Doug Liman's 1996 buddy comedy "Swingers," Mike (Jon Favreau) meets Nikki (Brooke Langton) while ordering a drink at a local dance bar. Fresh out of a six-year relationship, he makes awkward small talk with her, procures her number, and calls her later that night. When he gets Nikki's answering machine, it takes him a few tries to ask her out and leave his number. Soon, his intrusive, self-conscious thoughts sabotage his courtship. He redials numerous times and leaves...
While some workers worry that AI threatens the job security of their professions, in health care, where worker demand is still growing, artificial intelligence may augment the administrative burden of an understaffed, overworked, and stressed workforce. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the sector will grow much faster than the overall employment average, adding about 1.9 million jobs yearly from 2023 to 2033. The huge demand for health care in the United States derives from the...
February 3, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (AL-07) joined House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (TX-19) to reintroduce H.R. 842, the Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act, in the House of Representatives. The bill would allow for multi-cancer early detection (MCED) tests to be covered by Medicare in a timely manner upon approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The bill has gained critical momentum in Congress, p...
After several weeks of declining fuel prices in the latter part of 2024, costs at the pump are beginning to rise in the new year, averaging $3.12, around a 9-cent increase compared to a month ago. States in the South and Midwest are seeing the lowest average gas prices in the U.S., with prices dropping as low as $2.68 in Mississippi. "While the national average dipped below $3 per gallon for a few days in recent weeks, those days are likely behind us," GasBuddy analyst Patrick De Haan said in a...
After several weeks of declining fuel prices in the latter part of 2024, costs at the pump are beginning to rise in the new year, averaging $3.12, around a 9-cent increase compared to a month ago. States in the South and Midwest are seeing the lowest average gas prices in the U.S., with prices dropping as low as $2.68 in Mississippi. "While the national average dipped below $3 per gallon for a few days in recent weeks, those days are likely behind us," GasBuddy analyst Patrick De Haan said in a...
February 3, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Robert Aderholt is pleased to announce the nomination of several outstanding young men and women from Alabama's 4th Congressional District to the United States Military Academies. These students have demonstrated exceptional academic, athletic, and leadership capabilities, making them well-suited for the rigorous demands of a military education and service. The nominees, their respective academies, hometowns, high schools, and parents are as f...
February 1, 2025 - CULLMAN, AL - Health Freedom Alabama (HFA) held a Legislative Update in preparation for the new legislative session which will begin next week. The event was hosted by Dr. Nathan Lewis and Align Alabama on Saturday. Stephanie Durnin, Director of Health Freedom Alabama was the featured speaker. Director Durnin discussed the organization's history, their past accomplishments and their goals in this session and beyond. HFA was part of the grassroots coalition that worked to have...
January 15, 2025 – MONTGOMERY, Al – Retired rear Admiral Kent Davis – who recently was removed from his position as Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Veteran Affairs spoke recently in Montgomery. Admiral Davis speaking to the Republican Club of Central Alabama. Daivs was fired by Governor Kay Ivey (R) because of a dispute between the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Mental Health Department over the allocation of federal COVID relief dollars. Ivey accused Davis of not worki...
February 3, 2025 – MONTGOMERY, AL – The Alabama Legislature returns on Tuesday for the 2025 Alabama regular legislative session. This will be the third year of the quadrennium meaning that this is the last legislative session before election year. It is hard to get major pieces of legislation done in a session where everybody is running for the political lives. This means that this is the last best chance for this legislature to move major pieces of legislation – outside of a special sessi...
During President Donald J. Trump's first administration a cadre of politically connected FBI agents in the D.C. office played a large role in attempting to undermine the President. So much so that a special prosecutor was hired to investigate whether or not Trump was an intelligence asset for the Russians. Those bogus charges were eventually exposed as untrue; but not before wasting over half of Trump's first term and likely costing the GOP the majority in the 2018 elections. After Trump was...
While the latest inflation data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics puts the annual price change nationwide on gas at +4.4%, some states have seen gas prices increase by more than double that, while prices have fallen significantly in others. Americans may be sensitive to such significant fluctuations in gas prices: The average commute to work in some states is over 30 minutes long, and on average over 40% of households in each state have two cars. To examine the impact on American's wallets,...
Older voters were the most likely to take advantage of Michigan's expanded early in-person voting option in the November general election, Votebeat reports. Nearly one in three early voters was age 60 or older, according to the Michigan Department of State, and more than half of early voters were at least 51 years old. That well outpaces the percentage of Michigan residents who are in that age group—Census data shows about 37.8% of Michiganians are in that age range. Early Voting Among M...
After several weeks of declining fuel prices in the latter part of 2024, costs at the pump are beginning to rise in the new year, averaging $3.12, around a 9-cent increase compared to a month ago. States in the South and Midwest are seeing the lowest average gas prices in the U.S., with prices dropping as low as $2.68 in Mississippi. "While the national average dipped below $3 per gallon for a few days in recent weeks, those days are likely behind us," GasBuddy analyst Patrick De Haan said in a...
After several weeks of declining fuel prices in the latter part of 2024, costs at the pump are beginning to rise in the new year, averaging $3.12, around a 9-cent increase compared to a month ago. States in the South and Midwest are seeing the lowest average gas prices in the U.S., with prices dropping as low as $2.68 in Mississippi. "While the national average dipped below $3 per gallon for a few days in recent weeks, those days are likely behind us," GasBuddy analyst Patrick De Haan said in a...
After several weeks of declining fuel prices in the latter part of 2024, costs at the pump are beginning to rise in the new year, averaging $3.12, around a 9-cent increase compared to a month ago. States in the South and Midwest are seeing the lowest average gas prices in the U.S., with prices dropping as low as $2.68 in Mississippi. "While the national average dipped below $3 per gallon for a few days in recent weeks, those days are likely behind us," GasBuddy analyst Patrick De Haan said in a...
After several weeks of declining fuel prices in the latter part of 2024, costs at the pump are beginning to rise in the new year, averaging $3.12, around a 9-cent increase compared to a month ago. States in the South and Midwest are seeing the lowest average gas prices in the U.S., with prices dropping as low as $2.68 in Mississippi. "While the national average dipped below $3 per gallon for a few days in recent weeks, those days are likely behind us," GasBuddy analyst Patrick De Haan said in a...
After several weeks of declining fuel prices in the latter part of 2024, costs at the pump are beginning to rise in the new year, averaging $3.12, around a 9-cent increase compared to a month ago. States in the South and Midwest are seeing the lowest average gas prices in the U.S., with prices dropping as low as $2.68 in Mississippi. "While the national average dipped below $3 per gallon for a few days in recent weeks, those days are likely behind us," GasBuddy analyst Patrick De Haan said in a...
After several weeks of declining fuel prices in the latter part of 2024, costs at the pump are beginning to rise in the new year, averaging $3.12, around a 9-cent increase compared to a month ago. States in the South and Midwest are seeing the lowest average gas prices in the U.S., with prices dropping as low as $2.68 in Mississippi. "While the national average dipped below $3 per gallon for a few days in recent weeks, those days are likely behind us," GasBuddy analyst Patrick De Haan said in a...
After several weeks of declining fuel prices in the latter part of 2024, costs at the pump are beginning to rise in the new year, averaging $3.12, around a 9-cent increase compared to a month ago. States in the South and Midwest are seeing the lowest average gas prices in the U.S., with prices dropping as low as $2.68 in Mississippi. "While the national average dipped below $3 per gallon for a few days in recent weeks, those days are likely behind us," GasBuddy analyst Patrick De Haan said in a...
January 30, 2025- WASHINGTON, D.C. – the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Lee Zeldin as Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator. Both U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Alabama) and Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) voted to confirm Zeldin. Senator Britt released a statement after the Senate confirmed Zeldin: "I was excited to vote to confirm Lee Zeldin as EPA Administrator today, Sen. Britt said. "The Biden-Harris EPA instituted partisan, punitive rules and taxes that raised costs and put hardworki...
January 31, 2025–Alabama Eagle Forum hosted their annual Policy Conference at First Baptist Church of Birmingham on Friday, January 30th. National and local leaders addressed a crowd of about 140 attendees. The Conference focused on bills and issues of importance to Eagle Forum members during the upcoming legislative session. National Eagle Forum President Kris Ullman discussed the pro-life, pro-family Executive Orders issued by President Trump in his first two weeks in office. She emphasized t...
January 30, 2025 – WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) joined U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee) and their colleagues to introduce the Veterans Health Care Freedom Act, which would help improve veterans' access to health care by reducing the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) role in the community care referral process. "Our veterans should be able to see a doctor as quickly and easily as possible," said Senator Tuberville. "Taking care of our veterans is a sa...
