
Montgomery is a very different place now than when Republicans first won control of the legislature in 2010 — a difference that is most evident by how the governing GOP majority has come to view the Alabama Education Association (AEA), its political work and the political contributions it makes from Alabama Voice of Teachers for Education (A-VOTE), the organization's political action committee.

Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty has died at 79. He campaigned in Alabama for Judge Roy Moore.