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This story is about first impressions, dispelling stereotypes, and a smidge about politics. That is to say, how one overseas traveler views Alabama and the US. Last month, Croatian writer and radio producer Tomica Šćavina traveled more than five thousand miles to settle into the Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts’ brief residency program

A growing number of progressive politicians are choosing to tell their own abortion stories. The list includes newly elected Alabama State House member Marilyn Lands, who won a special election by focusing on reproductive rights.

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, Republicans insisted the ruling would mostly impact those seeking abortions to end unwanted pregnancies. But that hasn't been the case. Women who never intended to end their pregnancies have nearly died because they couldn't get emergency treatment. Miscarriage care has been delayed. Routine reproductive medical care has dried up in states with strict abortion bans. And fertility treatments were temporarily paused in Alabama. As the fallout grows, so apparently does the opportunity for Democrats.

U.S. Senator Katie Britt confided that she counts some Democratic colleagues among her best friends in the Senate and said such cross-party relationships are essential to governing, especially as social media fuels widening political divisions.

It’s been about two weeks since Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced he’s running for President. The event was hosted on the social media site Twitter Spaces. Here in Alabama, it appears DeSantis’ host Elon Musk is generating more buzz than the candidate.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is voting on Judge Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination. A full Senate vote on the nomination is expected as early as…

So, how do you plan to spend your Labor Day? Visitng with family and backyard cookouts are expected to fill a lot of that time, unless you're in politics.…

The late U.S. House speaker Tip O'Neill once said that "all politics is local." It can be argued that in a scarcely populated and rural state like…

Big Jim always knew he wanted to go into politics and he got started in his twenties...

Alabama Auditor Jim Zeigler is opposing a November ballot measure that clarifies the threshold to oust an impeached public official.Amendment 6 specifies…