Posts by Craig Monger

Attorney General Steve Marshall recently announced that the state had reached a $12.2 million settlement with the online gaming platform Roblox, which will fund additional School Resource Officers (SROs) and bolster child safety on the platform.

Former Montgomery Mayor Todd Strange recently began running radio ads announcing his support for Katherine Robertson as she seeks to be the state’s next attorney general.

Gov. Kay Ivey has signed legislation into law that would significantly alter the state’s K-12 sex education, mandating “sexual risk avoidance” instead of what is called comprehensive sex education.

A Madison bookstore made good on its pledge to donate banned books to a local non-profit that conducts various outreach, including a group for LGBTQ+-identifying “kids, youth and adults,” and claimed to have donated some of the books to local school libraries.

A race for the Republican nomination for Alabama’s House District 85 (HD85) recently took a negative turn when a challenger accused the incumbent seat holder of being "bought and paid for by an out-of-state gambling interest.”

The National Education Association (NEA) is advertising May Day protests and marches across Alabama, with the aim of a one-day economic boycott, opposing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and calling for “tax the rich.”

The Alabama chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) recently celebrated the passage of three bills related to the state’s Board of Pardons and Paroles in the recently concluded legislative session, two of which had Republican sponsors.

The Alabama State Board of Midwifery will now be able to accept grants and gifts after Gov. Kay Ivey signed the permitting legislation into law, after another birthing-related bill died on the vine this legislative session.

Alabama High School Athletic Association (AHSAA) executive director Heath Harmon recently stated that the association would comply with the law recently signed by Gov. Kay Ivey, clarifying the participation of student-athletes who receive funds from the state's school choice program.

Crushing the hopes of some for a reversal, the Alabama High School Athletic Association on Wednesday solidified its decision to separate private and public schools in postseason play earlier this year.

Gov. Kay Ivey has scheduled the nitrogen hypoxia execution of Jeffrey James Lee, 49, for the 1998 murder of Jimmy Ellis and Elaine Thompson in an attempted robbery. 

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, recently spoke about the ongoing intervention in Iran and its negative effects on energy production, blaming the nation's lack of domestic energy production and processing on its past climate policies.

Gov. Kay Ivey recently signed a very controversial bill into law on Tuesday that divided lawmakers in the final days of the legislative session and nearly died before gaining approval on the last day of the session.

Gov. Kay Ivey signed legislation into law on Tuesday, granting participants in the state’s school choice system protection from discrimination when participating in high school athletics after Ivey and other state leaders filed a lawsuit last year.

Governor Kay Ivey signed legislation into law on Monday that would allow the removal of tenured faculty and limit the authority of faculty-led governing bodies starting in October.

Could a group of like-minded conservative state lawmakers form their own voting bloc, similar to the House Freedom Caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.?

Before departing the legislature for the final day of the 2026 legislative session, several House Democrats spoke on what they believed to be the best and worst of the year, all naming the lack of a lottery bill as a stark negative.

Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday signed legislation into law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments after two years of Democratic backlash in the legislature.

The Alabama Legislature adjourned for the final time in the 2026 legislative session on Thursday, and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle couldn’t avoid talking about the state’s long and sordid history of trying to legalize gambling.

After failing to pass last year, the House of Representatives finalized a bill on the final day of the 2026 legislative session requiring schools to display the Ten Commandments, provided that the display or the funds to purchase one are donated to the school.

In the final hours of the 2026 legislative session, lawmakers pushed through a contested bill that dictates the governance structure of public colleges and allows for the removal of tenured professors.

The Alabama House of Representatives passed Senate legislation allowing participants in a new school choice program to sue the Alabama High School Athletic Association (AHSAA) in certain eligibility disputes.

Members of the Alabama House of Representatives passed on Thursday legislation barring online political contributions from sources whose billing addresses are not in the United States.

The Alabama House of Representatives will meet on Thursday for the final time in the 2026 legislative session, where lawmakers will vote on a handful of consequential bills before the day’s end.

Recent caterwauling by the University of Alabama chapter of the American Association of University Professors in response to legislative efforts to regulate university governance would have you believe UA’s faculty numbers have dwindled after anti-DEI legislation, but the numbers tell a different story.

Legislation altering the state’s guidelines for sex education curriculum in the state’s public K-12 schools passed the House of Representatives without much of the expected pushback from Democratic lawmakers.

House and Senate lawmakers will now try to negotiate legislation after lawmakers on both sides of the aisle were split in a spirited debate over a bill that would allow the state to install speeding cameras in interstate work zones and collect revenue from the $250 tickets issued.