Apple CEO and Alabama native Tim Cook quotes Martin Luther King, Jr., in a memo to Apple employees in the aftermath of Tuesday election win by Donald Trump. I recall something Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said 50 years ago: “If you can’t fly, then run. If you can’t run, then walk. If you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever…
Days are counting down until Tuesday’s Presidential Election and with neither candidate showing true Christian values, those voters are having a difficult decision choosing who will be a better leader. “I’m not looking forward to what we’re in for for the next four years regardless of who gets elected,” said Christian Voter Ed Sims. “I have in mind who I’m…
A civil rights group is challenging Alabama’s practice of electing appellate judges by statewide vote, saying it has resulted in all-white courts in a state where one of every four people is African-American. The NAACP’s Alabama chapter and four black voters sued the state on Wednesday in Montgomery federal court, arguing that electing judges through at-large elections in Alabama violates…
Four Republicans are running for former House Speaker Mike Hubbard’s legislative seat. The Alabama Republican Party announced Friday that Jay Conner, Joe Lovvorn, Brett Smith and Sandy Toomer had qualified to run for the Lee County House seat. No Democrats are running for the legislative district. Hubbard was removed from office in June after a jury convicted him of 12…
Voters in several counties will head back to the polls Tuesday for runoff elections. Alabamians will decide primary election contests in which no candidate received more than half the vote. One race many people will be watching is the seat on the Montgomery County School Board. The candidates vying for the seat in the democratic primary runoff for District 7…
Alabama’s secretary of state is urging a federal judge to let Alabama’s voter ID law stand. Secretary of State John Merrill, in a court filing last week, argued that Alabama has one of the most inclusive photo ID laws in the nation. The state since 2014 has required voters to present photo identification at the polls. Merrill’s attorneys argued that…
