Alex Jobin

3 days ago | alreporter.com | Alex Jobin

In 2024, Ann Brown, former chair of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission under the Bill Clinton administration, donated $100,000 to Safe Kids Worldwide, a nonprofit organization focused on protecting children from preventable injuries. Now, Brown’s donation is being used to distribute over 36,000 gun locks across nine states and Washington, D.C. in an effort to combat unintentional shootings involving children.

4 days ago | alreporter.com | Alex Jobin

Alabama-based nonprofit Summer Adventures in Learning, SAIL, recently announced that it will be partnering with 54 summer learning programs operating at 84 sites across 31 counties in the state this year. This expansion — funded by nearly $1 million in grants from SAIL’s 15 philanthropic partners — marks a 42 percent increase in program offerings from last year, according to the organization.

5 days ago | alreporter.com | Alex Jobin

Statewide anti-poverty group Alabama Arise recently announced that it has reached a successful collective bargaining agreement with the Communications Workers of America and the organization’s staff union Alabama Arise Workers United. Arise’s leadership has supported staff unionization and labor negotiations since 2023, when Arise staff unanimously signed union authorization cards to join CWA Local 3908.

6 days ago | alreporter.com | Alex Jobin

In a recent video posted to his X account, Kyle Sweetser — an Alabama native and lifelong Republican now running as a Democrat for Tommy Tuberville’s U.S. Senate seat — slammed the Trump administration for collaborating with data analysis company Palantir to compile a master database on American citizens. “America, our freedom is in danger. This administration just granted a contract to Palantir technologies to create a master database of all U.S. citizens’ data.

1 week ago | alreporter.com | Alex Jobin

U.S. Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., recently attended a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing where Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer presented the Department of Labor’s budget request for the 2026 fiscal year. During that hearing, Sen.