Author: Caroline Beck (Caroline Beck)

A bill pre-filed for the 2020 legislative session would require car dealerships to tell buyers about any portion of the finance charges the dealer receives from the lender for arranging the loan.

Things have gotten better for women in Alabama who give birth while incarcerated, but health professionals and childbirth specialists say more still needs to happen. Measures as simple as getting an accurate record of how many pregnant women are in all of Alabama’s jails and prisons is something that Alabama Prison Birth Project Director Ashley Lovell wants to see.

Black infants in Alabama die at a rate nearly twice that of white babies. 

Alabama counties have released their 2020 road and bridge constructions plans to be funded by the recent 6-cent increase on Alabama’s gasoline tax.

Attorney General Steve Marshall said on Thursday that the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles has no responsibility in dealing with Alabama’s severely crowded prisons.

Josh Pendergrass has been named the Chief Communications Officer for the Alabama Policy Institute, a conservative think tank based in Birmingham.

Even though the 2019-2020 school year just began, officials at the Alabama Department of Education are already discussing their education budget proposals for the fiscal year 2021. State Superintendent Eric Mackey told reporters that the main goal for this budget proposal is to get more money into classrooms.

21 Alabama hospitals have filed a civil lawsuit in Conecuh County Circuit Court against the manufacturers, distributors and retailors of opioid-based drugs. The hospitals are alleging negligence, fraud and civil conspiracy by the defendants, which include Purdue Pharma, Johnson & Johnson, and more than 40 other companies and individuals involved in the production and sale of opioids.

The Board of Pardons and Paroles likely won't resume parole hearings until Nov. 1, the agency said Wednesday. As a result, 627 parole hearings from September and October have been postponed.

New Alabama Board Pardons and Paroles director Charlie Graddick said it will take weeks for the board to resume parole hearings after they were postponed last week amid claims that prior leadership was not complying with victim notification standards.