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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...
In early 2024, the bird influenza that had been spreading across the globe for nearly three decades did something wholly unexpected: It showed up in dairy cows in the Texas Panhandle. A dangerous bird flu, in other words, was suddenly circulating in mammals—mammals with which people have ongoing, extensive contact. "Holy cow," says Thomas Friedrich, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. "This is how pandemics start." This bird flu, which scientists call highly pathogenic avi...
April 10, 2025 - CULLMAN, AL. - The Alabama Farmers Federation has endorsed Heath Allbright for Alabama House of Representatives District 11 to replace the vacancy created by the recent resignation of Rep. Randall Shedd, R-Fairview. Gov. Kay Ivey has set the primary election for Tuesday, May 13, 2025. Allbright is a lifelong native of Cullman County. He graduated from Holly Pond High School and received his associates degree in agricultural science from Snead State Community College. He has...
Of the lucky pups who were adopted last year, it seems more have found their forever homes: The number of dogs surrendered by their owners has decreased by about 4.5% since 2023, according to a 2024 report from Shelter Animals Count. Collecting data from 13,527 animal shelters and rescues in the U.S., Canada, and U.S. territories, the SAC report also found that the overall dog adoption rate has dipped by about 1% from 2023. However, it's worth noting that when this figure is broken down by the t...
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...
Despite the sometimes gray skies of April, many of us feel a familiar lift in spirits. That post-winter mood boost isn't just your imagination—there's fascinating biology at work, centered around a crucial nutrient that nearly half of Americans don't get enough of. The Winter-Spring Mental Health Connection If you've ever felt like a different person once spring arrives, you're not alone. What many experience as winter blues transforms into a natural mood elevation that mental health p...
On Saturday night at the Delta Center, country-pop musician Kelsea Ballerini went through four outfit changes, played around two dozen songs and danced her way through confetti explosions and pyrotechnics happening around her on stage. But she—along with her fans—also crossed something off their shared bucket lists: Performing (and seeing her perform) at her first arena show in Utah, The Salt Lake Tribune reports. "I've had the pleasure of playing around Salt Lake for the last 10 years," Bal...
April 10, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced the Veterans First Act of 2025, which will redirect wasteful taxpayer funding previously allocated for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to instead pay for outstanding repairs in state veterans' homes. This legislation follows the Trump administration's actions to largely shut down USAID after it was revealed that the agency was using taxpayer funds t...
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 10, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has joined 22 fellow attorneys general in filing an amicus curiae brief in United States v. State of Illinois, urging the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois to reject attempts by Illinois, Chicago, and Cook County to shield illegal aliens from federal immigration authorities. The brief argues that these sanctuary laws directly conflict with federal law, frustrate national immigration enforcement, a...
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. – Today, Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Ranking Member Terri A. Sewell (AL-07) joined Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Linda T. Sánchez (CA-38) and Ways and Means Committee Democrats to introduce the Stopping a Rogue President on Trade Act, a bill to put a stop to President Trump's reckless trade wars and return tariff authority to Congress. "Donald Trump has once again shown that he cannot be trusted to lead the trade policy of the United States," sa...
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...
April 10, 2025 – WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) joined U.S. Senator Jim Banks (R-Indiana) in cosponsoring the Abortion Funding Awareness Act. This bill requires states to publicly report detailed information about Medicaid payments to abortion providers, including how much was paid, what services were funded, and data on the abortions performed. It aims to increase transparency around taxpayer funds used in connection with abortion-related services. "Zero tax...
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...
The Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) confirms that a bulldog in Pike County near County Road 7708, Troy, tested positive for rabies. The dog's owner reported that the bulldog was acting aggressively toward other animals and the owner, and on Monday called Troy Animal Control. Several other dogs live around the residence and are being monitored for signs of rabies. ADPH is monitoring and urging people in the general area to keep their pets and other animals current on rabies...
April 11, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Katie Britt (R-Ala.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Dave McCormick (R-Pa.), and Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) introduced bipartisan legislation to ensure disabled veterans experiencing homelessness maintain access to crucial housing support. The Housing Unhoused Disabled Veterans Act (HUDVA) would permanently exclude disability payments received by veterans from annual income for housing assistance eligibility purposes under the Department of Housing and Ur...
Of the lucky pups who were adopted last year, it seems more have found their forever homes: The number of dogs surrendered by their owners has decreased by about 4.5% since 2023, according to a 2024 report from Shelter Animals Count. Collecting data from 13,527 animal shelters and rescues in the U.S., Canada, and U.S. territories, the SAC report also found that the overall dog adoption rate has dipped by about 1% from 2023. However, it's worth noting that when this figure is broken down by the t...
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 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...
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...
