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Opinion | The very strange John Wahl situation

1 day ago | alreporter.com | Josh Moon

Can we all agree that this situation with John Wahl is strange? We can do that, right? Republicans, Democrats, independents – we all should be able to come together on this one. Not that he’s strange, mind you. I make no judgment on that topic. Nor do I make any judgments on his religion, his beliefs or his occupation – the same way I wish he’d behave towards others. But the situation, on the other hand …. It’s strange that we don’t really – I mean, really – know exactly who this guy is.
If you want a better Alabama, you're going to have to fight for it

2 days ago | alreporter.com | Josh Moon

Do you know what’s very popular in Alabama? Gambling. And public school funding. And the overtime tax exemption. There is no arguing this. These three things are some of the most popular issues on an Alabama voter’s mind. Poll after poll has proven this, and done so year after year. You know what’s not so popular in Alabama? Denying voters the right to vote on gambling. And sending public school dollars to private businesses. And repealing the overtime tax exemption. Again, it’s not a close call.
Third Alabama Starbucks votes to unionize in Huntsville

2 days ago | alreporter.com | Chance Phillips

On Monday, eight of 10 workers at a Huntsville Starbucks voted to unionize with Starbucks Workers United. The store is the third Starbucks location in the state of Alabama to unionize, and a representative of the union told APR it is the 586th store to unionize nationwide. “I really want to express how grateful I am for all the community support that we’ve gotten,” barista Briar Wolf emphasized during a phone call yesterday.
Rep. Figures defends legacy, inspires grads at Tuskegee commencement

3 days ago | alreporter.com | Bill Britt

U.S. Rep. Shomari Figures, a Democrat from Alabama, brought a powerful blend of gratitude, defiance and inspiration to Tuskegee University’s spring commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 11. Figures delivered a keynote address that honored the legacy of the historic institution while challenging graduates to lead with purpose, persistence and principle.
Opinion | On matters of race in Alabama, going backwards is somehow great progress

3 days ago | alreporter.com | Josh Moon

Welcome to Alabama, where regressing 12 years is actually progress. On Thursday, a federal three-judge panel ruled that state lawmakers here had been so unapologetically racist in drawing their congressional voting maps – and then so cavalierly defiant when told to correct their racism – that the court could see no way that it couldn’t be exactly what it appeared to be: Blatant racism. That, of course, is no surprise.
Opinion | When the center cannot hold

3 days ago | alreporter.com | Bill Britt

More than a century ago, W. B. Yeats looked into the wreckage of war and offered a line that today feels less like poetry than prophecy: “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.” In The Second Coming, he wrote not just about a political unraveling, but a spiritual one — a collapse of meaning, of shared truth, of the moral ballast that holds a society upright. Today, we live in that unraveling. The idea of a shared reality has eroded.
Lifelong Alabama Republican and ex-NATO official criticizes GOP shift on Ukraine

3 days ago | alreporter.com | Alex Jobin

Barry Adams is an Alabama native, a lifelong Republican voter, and a former program manager at the NATO liaison office in Kyiv, Ukraine, from 2005 to 2012. APR recently spoke with Adams to better understand how the Trump administration’s approach to the Russian invasion of Ukraine — an approach which has shifted away from Ukrainian support and toward Russian appeasement — might be affecting the opinions of some Republican voters.
Librarians, supporters rail against new regime at Alabama Public Library Service

6 days ago | alreporter.com | Jacob Holmes

More than 30 people showed up to speak out at the latest meeting of the Alabama Public Library Service on Thursday, with the vast majority expressing harsh criticism of the board’s actions since Chairman John Wahl took over. The contention started early when Gadsden Public Library Director Craig Scott, immediate past president of the Alabama Library Association, criticized the board for looking for controversy rather than the good libraries are doing.
Alabama’s war on abortion help exposed in new reporting

6 days ago | alreporter.com | Bill Britt

When investigative journalist Nina Martin returned to Alabama to report on the state’s post-Roe abortion landscape, she didn’t focus just on laws banning the procedure. Instead, she zeroed in on something even more chilling: the criminalization of help.
Alabama Dems hope to use Trump, ALGOP failures to build momentum in 2026

6 days ago | alreporter.com | Josh Moon

Alabama Democrats smell blood in the water. And a very familiar face is helping to lead the attack. Over the past several weeks, as the Trump administration’s scandals, poor decisions, arbitrary firings and general ineptitude have confused and angered voters across the country, a not-so-odd thing has happened – Democrats have suddenly become much more popular. Even in blood-red Alabama.