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Summer 2024 has already been record-meltingly hot, and it's not over yet—meteorologists predict that August is going to be even warmer. Part of the extreme heat this summer has to do with a long period of El Niño. These are conditions that make the surface waters in the eastern Pacific warmer—and bring with it warmer land temperatures, too. Though El Niño subsided earlier in the season, the transition to cooler La Niña conditions won't happen until late summer or early fall. Coupled with alread...
A regular habit of saving and investing is critical for financial independence; however, the practise of regularly setting money aside in a savings account or investment account can be hard. Enter the concept of automatic investing, or auto-investing. The concept isn't new with many cryptocurrency traders quite familiar with the advantages of auto-investing and many tech-savvy traders using scheduled transfers and execution orders to set up automatic trading strategies. However, for many...
Pets provide comfort and companionship, but they can also be a big financial responsibility. Emergency veterinary surgery can run anywhere from $1,500 to $7,000, according to 2024 data from Yelp; pulling a tooth can cost $500 to $3,000. Pet insurance can ease some of the worry of pet ownership by helping cover the cost of veterinary care if your pet gets sick or is injured. To see how pet owners feel about pet insurance, Experian recently surveyed more than 1,200 consumers. Nearly 1 in 3 Pet Own...
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 12, 2024- Fox News published a column written by U.S. Senators Katie Britt (R-Alabama) and Tim Kaine (D-Virginia) arguing if favor of their bipartisan childcare legislation. They argue that their proposal offers serious solutions to the childcare crisis in America, which is harming Alabamians and Virginians. In the op-ed, the Senators outline their bills to make childcare more affordable and accessible by bolstering existing tax credits and creating a pilot program to...
(Montgomery, Ala.) – Last week Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (R) joined a coalition of 21 attorneys general asking the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to uphold the national TikTok divest-or-ban legislation passed by Congress earlier this year. The federal law bans TikTok in the United States if Chinese-owned ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, does not sell its stake in the platform. ByteDance and TikTok sued the federal government following the ban. "...
Tens of millions of persons without U.S. citizenship live and work in the United States (both legally and illegally) and a lot of those immigrants are on the voting roles in Alabama. After being sworn into office on January 16, 2023, Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen (R) has been working to ensure that Alabama has the cleanest and most accurate voter file in the country. As part of this effort, Secretary Allen has identified 3,251 individuals who are registered to vote in Alabama who have...
August 13, 2024 - MOBILE – Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (R) announced approximately $30 million for 25 projects in Coastal Alabama, supported by funds from the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 (GoMESA). These projects are focus on environmental education and outreach, sewer and stormwater infrastructure, water quality improvements, recreational access improvements, and other projects that are included in the original intent and authorized use of GoMESA funds. "I am thrilled to be j...
(Montgomery, Ala) – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall today filed a 26-state amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review a lower court's decision that the Constitution prohibits States from restricting girls' sports teams to biological females. The case arises from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which held in June that Idaho's Fairness in Women's Sports Act likely violates the Equal Protection Clause by not allowing biological males-who identify as women-to compete on s...
HUNTSVILLE, ALA. – The Food Bank of North Alabama will be announcing its campaign Food is the Focus. People are the Why. at 4 p.m., Aug. 15 at 225 Finney Drive, SW, Huntsville, Ala., 35824. The announcement also will include speakers, a ribbon cutting ceremony and tours of its distribution center. Light refreshments will be provided. Food is the Focus. People are the Why. Campaign chairs are: Emily Propst Reiney, director of The Propst Foundation; Tracy Doughty, president and COO of H...
(Etowah, Ala.)-Attorney General Steve Marshall announced the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the capital murder conviction of Lonterry Orlando Harrison, 23, of Gadsden. Harrison was convicted in the Etowah County Circuit Court on October 24, 2022. The evidence at trial showed that the victim, A. J. Huff, was with a group of friends when he received a text message that someone wanted to buy marijuana from him. The victim drove to the Starnes Park Apartments to complete the sale....
Traveling abroad can be an expensive proposition. But with international travel rates up and economic factors favoring American travelers, many global destinations are more affordable than domestic travel for U.S. jet-setters—especially now. Four years after international travel ground to a halt during the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 285 million tourists in the first quarter of 2024 traveled internationally, 97% of 2019 levels, according to the United Nations. That metric results from a strong...
Which U.S. counties are most likely to be impacted by hurricanes? With a hectic hurricane season forecasted for this summer, LawnStarter ranked 2024's most hurricane-vulnerable counties. The rankings considered hurricane risk assessments and anticipated financial loss from hurricanes according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). It also included the past 10 years of historical storm data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and access to national...
A new report from the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization, or FAO, has found that more fish were farmed worldwide in 2022 than harvested from the wild, an apparent first. Last week, the FAO released its annual report on the state of aquaculture — which refers to the farming of both seafood and aquatic plants — and fisheries around the world. The organization found that global production from both aquaculture and fisheries reached a new high — 223.3 million metric tons of anima...
A poorer than expected July jobs report sent stocks lower last week as investors fears of a spring recession increased. Alabama went opposite the national trend and total unemployment dropped from 2.9 percent in June to 2.8 percent in July. There was no noticeable improvement however in Alabama's labor force participation rate. It held steady in July. Alabama Department of Labor Secretary Fitzgerald Washington announced today that Alabama's labor force participation rate for July remains at 57.5...
MONTGOMERY, ALA – Rep. Rex Reynolds (R-Huntsville) has been named the 2024 Legislator of the Year by the Alabama 310 Association. Established by Alabama Act 310, 310 Boards are public, non-profit corporations that play a crucial role in providing free mental health and substance abuse services. The 19 faculties, spread across the state, operate at no cost to the 5,000 plus patients they serve. Rep. Reynolds, who serves as House General Fund Chairman, has prioritized funding mental health c...
August 16, 2024 Bessemer, AL – Congresswoman Terri A. Sewell (D-AL07) toured the newly completed UAB Medical West Hospital. Rep. Sewell was joined by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Under Secretary for Rural Development Dr. Basil Gooden, USDA State Director for Rural Development Nivory Gordon, and UAB Medical West CEO Keith Pennington. The newly completed UAB Medical West Hospital in Bessemer, Alabama was made possible in part by a $360 million USDA Community Facilities Direct Loan that R...
While the median sale price of U.S. homes is just shy of $421,000 in Q1 2024, homes in some areas more than doubled that average. These expensive places may prevent hopeful first-time homebuyers from investing in the area, making renting – or even moving to a less expensive area – a better alternative. In some cases, high wages and demand keeps the pressure up on a lackluster supply of homes. With this in mind, SmartAsset ranked the 100 largest metro areas based on the average home sale pri...
In a recent episode of her "Women & Money" podcast, personal finance expert Suze Orman provided key insights into the benefits of inheriting a Roth IRA compared to a traditional IRA, emphasizing how the former can simplify the lives of beneficiaries. One listener had a question about the best strategy for an inherited Roth IRA, asking for clarification on whether it was best to wait until the 10th year to withdraw funds to allow the money to grow tax-free for that entire period. Orman confirmed...
On Friday, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) penned an op-ed in National Review in which he denounced Minnesota Governor Tim Walz – the presumptive Democratic nominee for Vice President as having a radical vision for Alabama. Tuberville said that no amount of media spinning for the Democrats can cover up Walz's record as a dyed-in-the-wool leftist. Tuberville highlighted Governor Walz's inexplicable inaction when leftist rioters attacked the city of Minneapolis in the wake of the G...
On Friday, Congressman Gary Palmer (R-Hoover) introduced Lulu's Law to the U.S. House of Representatives. Lulu's Law is named after Lulu Gribbin of Mountain Brook, Alabama, who is recovering after being attacked by a shark earlier in this summer. Only 90 minutes prior to Lulu Gribbin and McCray Faust being attacked, another woman was attacked by a shark just a few miles away. Lulu's Law would codify the ability for authorities to quickly deploy wireless emergency alerts (WEAs) to the public if s...
Last week, tired of the stalemate that has become the Russia-Ukraine War, President Volodymyr Zelensky did a strategic end around that that Russians were unprepared for and invaded the Kursk region of Russia itself. The ill prepared Russian troops they encountered there were largely new conscripts serving their mandatory year of military service and surrendered en masse. Ukraine has occupied 386 square miles of Russia – the first time a foreign power has invaded Russia itself since the German Ar...
August 18, 2024 - On Friday, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) said that Vice President Kamala Harris's economics plans shows that she is telling American people that "she's a communist." Last week Vice President Kamala Harris (D) – the presumptive Democratic nominee for President of the United States unveiled her economic plan – imposing price controls on food, energy, and other consumer goods – while subsidizing down payments for first time home buyers. Senator Tuberville denou...
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 19, 2024 – U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Alabama) announced that the City of Birmingham will receive a $4.2 million congressionally directed spending grant to expand the reach of its Real Time Crime Center. This congressionally directed spending was secured by Senator Britt in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024, which passed the Senate and was enacted into law on March 9, 2024. The award was formally announced by the Department of Justice just this week. The City o...
MONTGOMERY – Governor Kay Ivey on Monday announced her recent appointments made to the Alabama School of Healthcare Sciences (ASHS) Board. The newly established Alabama School of Healthcare Sciences, a legislative priority of Governor Ivey, will offer Alabama students in all 67 counties a high school experience that will train them to enter an in-demand medical career post-graduation or after continued higher education learning. "The Alabama School of Healthcare Sciences will help more A...
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 19, 2024 – U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Alabama) commended U.S. Congressman Gary Palmer (R-Hoover) for introducing Lulu's Law in the U.S. House of Representatives. Senator Britt wrote and introduced Lulu's Law in the Senate. The bill is named in honor of 15-year-old Lulu Gribbin from Mountain Brook, Alabama who was attacked by a shark while visiting the Alabama Gulf Coast. Their legislation, which is cosponsored by the entire Alabama House delegation, would codify s...
