MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The general election is less than a week away, and Democrat Phillip Ensler and Republican John Wahl are finalizing their cases to voters about why they should be Alabama’s next lieutenant governor. Ensler has pitched himself as an experienced public servant ready to work within the system and across the aisle to […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Alabama’s improvement in reading has been getting a lot of national attention lately. A new report examines how the state went from last in the nation in fourth-grade reading in 2019 to nearly matching the national average five years later. The Thomas B. Fordham Institute’s 40-plus-page report traces nearly three decades of Alabama’s […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump likes to play make-believe with his supporters. “Just close your eyes,” he tells them, “and pretend I’m on the ballot.” It’s a typically self-involved appeal from someone who has been the center of the nation’s political gravity for more than a decade. Now, he’s finishing the midterms with a cross-country blitz of campaign […]