On Wednesday, the Alabama Policy Institute (API) announced a change in its leadership.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Stephanie Holden Smith on Midday Mobile with Sean Sullivan as they discuss Alabama's tax surplus and "rainy day" funds and question why more of these funds aren't returned to taxpayers.
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.
Withholding is arguably one of the most damaging things ever done to our country because it allows the government to take what is rightfully earned by you (your money) before you even get your hands on it.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Stephanie Holden Smith on Midday Mobile with Sean Sullivan as they discuss UAH student Joshua Greer's suit against the school for violating the Alabama Campus Free Speech Act.
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.
Please find my Grownup Christmas List for Alabama politics and politicians.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Stephanie Holden Smith on Midday Mobile with Sean Sullivan as they discuss methodical integrity and its impact on those around us.
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.
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.
As we gather together with friends and family members to celebrate Thanksgiving this week, we would do well to reflect upon both the sacrifices and motivations of those who celebrated the first Thanksgiving.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Stephanie Holden Smith on Midday Mobile with Sean Sullivan as they discuss passive progressive Christianity and its belief that government-ordained secularism should reign over all things.
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.
Worldview matters. Whether or not we understand or internalize it, everyone we come into contact with has their own unique perspective.
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.
It’s Election Day, and it’s your civic duty to go cast your vote. There is a multitude of state constitutional amendments and down-ballot races that will impact all of our lives, depending on the outcome.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Stephanie Holden Smith on Midday Mobile with Sean Sullivan as they discuss the left's desire to hypersexualize young children.
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.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Stephanie Holden Smith on Midday Mobile with Sean Sullivan as they discuss the fact that the CDC has no power to mandate but to merely recommend, the conflicts of interest of CDC officials making recommendations and the attorneys general letter to the CDC asking them to not treat children as guinea pigs.
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.
The CDC cannot require children to get vaccinations to attend school.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Stephanie Holden Smith on Midday Mobile with Sean Sullivan as they discuss Club for Growth ratings and the feminist notion that men and women are the exact same thing.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Stephanie Holden Smith on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss feminism, how it has been taken over by the abortion lobby, how it is very insular and nationalistic, and how it therefore cares nothing about feminine movements in other countries such as Iran.
American feminism is dead, may she rest in peace.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Stephanie Holden Smith on Midday Mobile with Sean Sullivan as they discuss Alabama's budget surplus for fiscal year 2022 and the tax relief that surplus could provide for most Alabamians in this inflationary economy.
Listen to 1819 News Contributor Stephanie Holden Smith on News & Views with Joey Clark as they discuss taxation in Alabama and how Stephanie has reluctantly come to the conclusion that such a statement as "there isn't a dime's worth of difference between Republicans and Democrats" is sadly true in Alabama with regard to taxing and spending.