Teach for America, an organization focused on eliminating educational inequality by placing highly effective teachers in disadvantaged public schools, announced last week it will expand into Alabama. ...
There is no longer scented wood smoke coming from the fire pit at the Flats Road location of Archibald and Woodrow’s Bar-B-Q restaurant. The Northport City Council, by a 4-1 vote, revoked the restaurant’s...
While lawmakers continue to debate the future of gambling in Alabama, there is a new poll suggesting that a majority of Alabamians support regulating and taxing proceeds that result from it. The poll,...
A House committee voted unanimously Wednesday in favor of three bills designed to help Alabama’s struggling Prepaid Affordable College Tuition program. The bills each ensure that the PACT program will...
In July 2009, President Barack Obama announced that states setting an example on school reform would be eligible to compete for $4.35 billion in his Race to the Top program’s competitive grants. The...
Now that the University of Alabama owns Bryce Hospital and the property surrounding it, the question of how to best preserve, honor and use it is currently under discussion. In his State of the University...
Twenty years have passed since President Ronald Reagan signed legislation to create a national holiday celebrating the life of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. The bill triggered deep divisions...
Lines wrapped around Bryant-Denny Stadium well before the gates opened at noon Saturday as Crimson Tide fans prepared to celebrate the school’s thirteenth national championship. An estimated 38,000...
Alabama received good news on the job front recently, as figures were released showing that the state’s unemployment rate dropped in November for the first time since September 2007. The state Department...
