The 2026 election year began on May 19 when campaign fundraising could begin. Our elections will be May 19, 2026. Our Republican primary that day, and subsequent runoffs four weeks later, will be our election day for all statewide offices. Wi…
Like most, we always tend to avoid the difficult situations in our lives, hoping they’ll all smooth over if we let things be. It’s easier that way; the less thought we put into these difficult situations, the easier it is to go on with our lives.
On this World News Day, for too many people, the future is getting too dark to see. This moment is best described as living in a state of perpetual flux, of global uncertainty and deep, unsettling insecurity.
In the terrible and regrettable violence over the past few months that killed a Democratic Minnesota House Speaker and her husband, and left a colleague and his family wounded, as well as the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, plus several school shootings, Americans are…
I have been an upfront observer, participant, columnist, and commentator of Alabama politics for over six decades, and I can confidently say one of the most gifted political leaders in the history of our state is also one of its newest and youngest.
One of Governor Kay Ivey’s greatest legacies will be her outstanding wisdom and prudence in her appointments to fill important judicial and governmental openings. She has shown amazing leadership in this capacity over her decade as Governor.
As we mourn the dead and wounded at the school shooting at the church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, we must ask ourselves what could be done. For years, some answered nothing. Suddenly, everyone seems to have a solution. No law would stop every shooting, of course, but is it possible our gun de…
It’s not often I chime in on state and national politics, but the recent nomination of Elmore County’s Bill Lewis to the federal bench has me breaking my own rule.
We all knew that this 2026 election year was going to be a big year in Alabama politics. This year’s biggest race will be for the U.S. Senate Seat of Coach Tuberville.
Twenty-four years ago, when my wife and I packed up everything we owned and drove down from outside the D.C. beltway to little old LaGrange College, an hour southwest of Atlanta. On our first day of Faculty Institute (pre-planning, for you te…
Several decades ago during my first round of being The Outlook’s city reporter, my editor at the time gave me one rule about being a good reporter: “Everybody has bias, it's your job as a journalist not to show it.”
Some might think my least favorite question during my undergraduate years was what my plans were after college and while that question does send a wave of anxiety to most college students (especially college seniors), it was not the one I hat…
