Listen to the Alabama Policy Institute's Senior Director of Fiscal Policy Justin Bogie on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss the unwillingness of Alabama political leaders to give real tax relief to struggling Alabama citizens during this time of historic inflation.
What if the American people had suspicious minds?
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Stephanie Holden Smith on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss the lack of Alabama state tax relief compared to many other states, but instead, Alabama has grown state government by 40% over the past few years.
Usually when people say “goodbye,” they don’t actually mean it. Most of the world’s farewells are like that — a matter of courtesy born of habit — goodbyes that at best carry the hope of “until we meet again, my friend.”
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Amie Beth Shaver on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss the so-called Respect for Marriage Act which runs counter to the traditional family unit, the most anti-poverty, anti-crime and pro-health lifestyle as shown for millennia.
Listen to 1819 News CEO Bryan Dawson on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss the QBR scandal, in which outgoing Alabama Speaker of the House Mac McCutcheon and his son had a financial interest.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Stephanie Holden Smith on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss the Alabama Campus Free Speech Act and the fact that most institutions of higher learning in the state are in violation of this 2019 law.
Fresh off another birthday, I can’t help but admit I’m becoming more like my father as he becomes more like his father — and that we are powerless to stop it.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Amie Beth Shaver on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss Abigail Shrier's book on gender dysphoria titled "Irreversible Damage."
To bring home the bacon, someone has to slaughter a few pigs. And Richard Shelby isn’t yet done being a good butcher for the people of Alabama.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Amie Beth Shaver on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss bullies and how they can also take the form of elected officials who ignore the people who hired them.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Stephanie Holden Smith on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss how doing small things every day with integrity can make a huge difference in our local communities.
Everyday people being set free to build the future for themselves made us rich. And can make us richer still.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Stephanie Holden Smith on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss the so-called Respect for Marriage Act and how this act could severely affect religious institutions with the potential loss of nonprofit status.
Imagine the devil went down to Washington, D.C., looking for a soul to steal. Instead of looking for who can best carry a tune on the fiddle, the devil is looking for an honest man to compete with him over who can best win political power under American democracy.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Amie Beth Shaver on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss the uncommon courage of Agnes Patterson and her grace in the face of great loss.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Stephanie Holden Smith on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss the importance of worldview and the existence of cultural Christianity.
While most men accept the surface of things, the masters of men use the surface to mean many different things for their many different ends.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Amie Beth Shaver on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss how the Left uses Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" against conservatives, and how those same tactics can be used against the Left.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Stephanie Holden Smith on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss the midterm elections and the apparent post-COVID 20-point swing toward conservatism by suburban women.
We moderns have many levers, many ingenious devices and systems able to master space and time, body and mind.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Amie Beth Shaver on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss medical tyranny in the form of a medical bureaucracy insisting that doctors ignore potential effective treatments for patients and instead demand "shots in every arm" robots who must obey or lose their medical licenses.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Stephanie Holden Smith on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss protecting the innocence of children and the left's call for amnesty for their COVID overreach.
It’s easy to love one’s friends, sure, but to love one’s enemies? Such is a radical break from history’s violent cycle of eye for an eye.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Amie Beth Shaver on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss social media censorship and the awakening that parents experienced after COVID lockdowns allowed them to see what their children were being taught.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Stephanie Holden Smith on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss the CDC's addition of the COVID jabs to the childhood vaccine schedule (which doesn't apply to Alabama), how the state health officer is appointed by a lobbying group, and how the state's regressive grocery tax needs to be repealed.
Listen to 1819 News CEO Bryan Dawson on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss the Dominion tabulator SD cards in a New Mexico county that have been seized as evidence after an audit produced discrepancies, and they questioned why such audits shouldn't be much more common.