From Shadrack McGill to Rick Santorum, the religious right is reasserting itself in Republican politics and driving voters back to the Democratic party.

The Alabama Senate today passed a bill that would end the payment of taxpayer-funded pension plans for public officials who are convicted of public corruption.

Alabama may see 25.4 ounce beer bottles sooner than expected. A bill that would allow the bigger bottles made it on to the Alabama's Senate special order calendar for today.

On Friday, February 17, The Lemonheads’ current tour – one that finds the band performing its 1992 Alt-classic album It’s A Shame About Ray in its entirety – stopped at Bottletree Cafe. Frontman Evan Dando also performed two acoustic sets during the night, playing a number of songs from his band’s extensive catalog. Weld was [...]

A chance encounter with a musician making his way in the world

Few artists have been able to seamlessly cross over Secular and Christian music lines. Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard were able to do so, but it’s a short list by any measure. The South Carolina-based quartet NEEDTOBREATHE can be added to the crossover conversation, finding popularity with both audiences. On Monday, February 20, [...]

“Trying to solve traffic jams with more roads is like putting out a fire with gasoline,” Enrique Peñalosa told an audience of nearly 300 greenies, academics, developers and government officials at a Birmingham conference last week.

There was some movement on environmental policy in week two of the Alabama legislature's current session.

Once slated for demolition before community support demanded it be saved, the old Fire Station 22 is now home to Bogue's restaurant. Over at the Terminal, Andre Natta reports that the restaurant isn't set up to use credit cards yet, but other than that, it was serving breakfast to customers Monday morning. Meanwhile workers are about to begin demolition on the restaurant's old site, where it had been since 1946.