Mary Sell

MONTGOMERY — A new proposal in the Alabama Legislature would increase sales tax by 1.25% on online purchases and dedicate the revenue to public schools.

The state will likely end this fiscal year with a decline in sales tax revenue, the first time that's happened in 15 years.

The state of Alabama is poised to end this fiscal year with a decline in sales tax revenue, the first time that's happened in 15 years.

MONTGOMERY — Alabama is poised to end this fiscal year with a decline in sales tax revenue, the first time that's happened in 15 years.

MONTGOMERY — Jack Hawkins Jr., chancellor of Troy University for 35 years, will retire next year.

MONTGOMERY — Gov. Kay Ivey on Thursday called for the resignation of Kent Davis, the commissioner of the Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs, and removed a member of the board, John Kilpatrick who oversees the department.

Nearly 500 water and sewer projects totaling about $1.27 billion are in various stages of planning and construction across the state, a result of federal American Rescue Plan Act funding and local matches.

In the latest In the Weeds podcast, Todd and Mary get into more details on Alabama Veterans Department Commission Kent Davis’ forced resignation following the messy, and later dismissed, ethics complaint he filed fellow state agency leader Kim Boswell of the Alabama Department of Mental Health. When Davis initially said he wouldn’t resign, Gov. Kay […]

Voters in Alabama’s redrawn Second Congressional District are seeing the first television ad in what’s now the most watched Nov. 5 election contest in the state. Republican Caroleene Dobson began airing her first ad of the general election cycle on Friday. It could be seen during the Alabama Wisconsin game on Fox Saturday. Dobson’s campaign […]

Shomari Figures, the Democratic nominee for Alabama’s newly drawn Second Congressional District, has new television advertising ahead of the Nov. 5 general election. A new ad highlights Figures’ experience in D.C. when Barack Obama was president and his family ties to Alabama politics. It opens with a reference to Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have […]