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Alabama eliminates income taxes on capital gains from sale of gold and silver

May 27, 2024 -

Senate Bill 297 allows Alabama to exempt capital gains taxes on the sale of gold and silver in a bid to prioritize the earnings of citizens and to protect them from the harmful effects of inflation, currency debasement and increasing federal debt.

Under the new law, any profits or losses from the sale of precious metals, as reported on federal tax returns, will be excluded from the calculation of an Alabama taxpayer's adjusted gross income. This provision ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signs bill banning use of taxpayer dollars for DEI programs in public institutions

March 26, 2024 -

The state law, known as Senate Bill 129, received resounding support from Alabama Republicans in both the state Senate and House of Representatives and is set to take effect in October.

Under the new law, universities, K–12 school systems and state agencies are prohibited from sponsoring DEI programs, defined as any activity where attendance is based on one's race, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, national origin or sexual orientation. The legislation also prohibits ...

Alabama passes bill that protects IVF service providers from lawsuits following granting of legal personhood to embryos in the state

March 12, 2024 -

In February, the Alabama Supreme Court granted in vitro embryos legal personhood in a case that answered the question of whether wrongful death of a minor covered not just fetuses in the womb but also embryos held in a lab or storage facility.

The decision did not explicitly prohibit IVF, but it created uncertainty about how clinics and medical staff should deal with embryos. The decision has brought fear to doctors that they could be sued for destroying embryos, ...

Alabama lawmakers advance bill strictly defining gender based on biological sex

February 27, 2024 -

Senate Bill 92, which was recently approved by a committee, defines the existence of only two sexes – male and female – based on the genitals individuals are born with, and notes that gender is "objective and fixed."

SB 92 provides clarity for schools, local governments, health departments, social services and other agencies to establish single-sex spaces, such as bathrooms, based on these definitions. Thus, it mandates that any state-supported entity collecting sex-related ...

Alabama building a $1 billion, 4,000-bed prison – the most expensive prison in U.S. history

October 18, 2023 -

The Alabama Corrections Institution Finance Authority late last month approved a final price of $1.082 billion for the prison now under construction in Elmore County in east central Alabama.

This hefty price tag is set to devour most of the $1.25 billion that state lawmakers in 2021 initially set aside for the construction of two prisons each housing 4,000 inmates. The chairs of the General Funding committees in the State Senate and State House of Representatives ...

Alabama school districts sue social media companies for causing youth mental health crisis

April 05, 2023 -

The companies named in the lawsuit include TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube, who the suit says are employing insufficient age verification measures and parental controls. In addition, they say that these social media platforms employ information feeds that are designed to keep users in a trance, as well as manipulative reward mechanisms that work to activate dopamine and create unhealthy social comparisons.

All of these issues combine to create a product ...

Alabama, Utah ban TikTok on state-owned devices over security concerns

December 14, 2022 -

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey announced her state's prohibition of TikTok in a statement. Her directive also ordered agencies under the executive branch to take all necessary steps to prevent TikTok from accessing sensitive state data.

"Disturbingly, TikTok harvests vast amounts of data, much of which has no legitimate connection to the app's supposed purpose of video sharing," the Republican governor said. "Use of TikTok involving state IT infrastructure thus creates ...

Alabama officially bans transgender grooming of children

April 18, 2022 -

House Bill 322 and Senate Bill 184 together prohibit sexual indoctrination of children at school, as well as outlaw the promotion of hormone blockers, genital mutilation and gender reassignment surgery.

"I believe very strongly that if the Good Lord made you a boy, you are a boy, and if he made you a girl, you are a girl," Ivey stated.

"We should especially protect our children from these radical, life-altering drugs and surgeries when they are at such a vulnerable ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signs executive order directing all state agencies to ignore Biden’s vaccine mandates

November 01, 2021 -

The Republican governor directed all state agencies to ignore Biden's mandates and "cooperate to the fullest extent possible" with Attorney General Steve Marshall. The executive order also directs all state entities to avoid including a vaccine mandate in agreements with contractors.

The executive order does not directly prevent companies in Alabama from implementing vaccine requirements but is meant to aid in legal battles with the Biden administration. (Related: More ...

Alabama school asking parents to send kids to school with lunches after running out of food due to worsening supply chain crisis

October 20, 2021 -

Officials with Alexander City Schools asked parents to begin feeding their kids breakfast at home or send them to school with food of their own because the district hasn't gotten as many deliveries from food vendors.

“We have taken action to open accounts with other vendors in an attempt to diversify our supply options,” school officials wrote in a Facebook post over the weekend. “This is a situation that is frustrating for you as a parent, and for us as well as our ...

Alabama joins 9 other states in supporting Florida’s “free speech law” protecting against Big Tech censorship

September 22, 2021 -

Under Florida SB 7072, Floridians are allowed to sue Big Tech companies if they have been unfairly censored by them. It also allows Florida’s attorney general to file suits on these grounds. Florida's governor, Ron DeSantis, signed the bill into law back in May.

Unfortunately, a federal judge has temporarily prevented the law from being enforced on the grounds that some parts of it may violate the First Amendment after legal action was brought against the law by trade ...

Alabama doctor’s heart-wrenching story about young, dying covid patients “begging to be vaccinated” turns out to be a complete fabrication

July 26, 2021 -

Doctor pushes manipulative story to mock unvaccinated people and guilt the public into vaccinating

A closer inspection of the Grandview Medical Center in Birmingham tells a much different story. Brytney Cobia completely fabricated her story, and her name doesn’t even appear in the hospital’s directory. In fact, the hospital has not admitted a single pediatric patient for covid-19 since their data was made available, a year ago. And the average number of adult covid-19 patients ...

Alabama Senate approves bill that will protect minors from dangers of transgender therapy

March 16, 2021 - The Alabama Senate on Tuesday, March 2, approved a bill that would protect minors from the perils of transgender therapy.

Senators voted 23-4 in favor of the bill sponsored by Republican Senator Shay Shelnutt called the Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act. The bill is now headed to the state House of Representatives, which has already approved a companion bill.

The bill, as well as the one already approved by Alabama representatives, would make ...

Alabama declares flu outbreak emergency as vaccine failure becomes obvious to everyone

January 16, 2018 -

Hospital emergency rooms and outpatient clinics are reporting a very high volume of patients. Children’s of Alabama has issued a diversion protocol as they’ve run out of beds, instead requesting that patients are diverted to a different pediatric hospital. In addition, they’ve announced that they may transfer some of their patients to other hospitals to provide everyone with the best care possible.

UAB Hospital, meanwhile, is rescheduling elective, non-emergency ...

Incredibly obese woman crowned as NAM Alabama as collapsing culture celebrates self-harm and gluttony

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In its effort to promote fostering a positive self-image by enhancing natural beauty within, the National American Miss (NAM) has chosen to crown an incredibly obese woman during the recently concluded pageant that searched for the girl who would best represent the state of Alabama in the finals level. The announcement that oversized model Sara Milliken bagged the title sparked both criticism and support, creating a massive divide in people’s views of pageantry, beauty ...

Far-left and conservative protesters at University of Alabama UNITE in chanting “F**k Joe Biden”

May 07, 2024 -

The moment of unity reportedly happened during a May 1 protest on UA campus grounds. At around 5:30 p.m. on that day, far-left protesters backing Palestine gathered at the institution's Student Center Plaza. Soon after, counter-protesters supporting Israel showed up, according to footage shared by an editor at the university's paper.

"F**k Joe Biden," the far-left protesters chanted as Palestinian flags waved in the air. In response, the pro-Israel protesters chanted back: ...

TOWER HEIST: Alabama station’s 200-foot radio tower goes missing

February 15, 2024 -

The station, WJLX, sent a landscaping crew to the site on Feb. 2 for spring cleaning, only to discover the 200-foot radio tower missing. When a crew member called the station's general manager to break the news, he was in disbelief.

"What do you mean the tower is gone? Are you sure you’re in the right place? I actually used more colorful words than that," station owner and general manager Brett Elmore told NBC News in an interview. "He said there's wires all over the ...

Report: Birmingham, Alabama has highest cost of crime per capita in the entire country

December 29, 2023 -

Researchers from the site used crime data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to look at crime rates in 302 large cities and 1,010 small cities and towns across the country. They also looked at both violent crime and property crime and used research by the University of Miami and the University of Colorado Denver to determine the cost of crime in each area.

The researchers found that Birmingham had the highest CCPC among the more than 300 cities they examined ...

Every state is now a border state: Alabama deploys 275 National Guardsmen to southern border to deter illegals

October 10, 2023 -

Republican Gov. Kay Ivey has pledged to send 275 Alabama Army National Guard troops to the southern border, becoming the latest GOP governor to do so. (Related: Right Now with Ann Vandersteel: Massive Houston development known as Colony Ridge to house up to 200K ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS – Brighteon.TV.)

"Every state has become a border state under the current policies, and Alabama remains committed to being an integral part of the mission to protect our southern ...

Breaking: School resource officer shoots and kills ‘suspicious’ man attempting to enter elementary school in Alabama

July 07, 2022 -

(Article republished from en-Volve.com)

School Superintendent Tony Reddick discussed the incident, as you can watch here:

Law enforcement, commenting on the incident, noted that the altercation and shooting followed the man’s attempts to enter the elementary school, with the School Resources Officer blocking him from doing so and fighting him off.

CBS42 reported much the same thing, noting that “a man arrived at Walnut Park Elementary in Gadsden around ...