YELLOWHAMMER: Tuberville: ‘Left-wing activists’ using higher ed to advance agenda
In a Tuesday floor speech, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) lamented the state of higher education in the United States. Alabama’s junior senator blasted the incorporation of partisan left-leaning instruction, attendance costs, President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plans, and the administration’s proposed reforms to Title IX. In his opening remarks, Tuberville touched on the […]
THE HILL: Senate Republicans demand Schumer bring defense authorization bill to floor
Two dozen Republicans are pressing Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) to bring the fiscal 2023 National Defense Authorization Act to the floor for a vote before the September work period closes. “At the founding of our nation, then-General George Washington penned, ‘When the civil and military powers cooperate, and afford mutual aid to each […]
OPELIKA OBSERVER: Raising Awareness About Mental Health
The COVID-19 pandemic brought on a series of challenges unlike any we’ve witnessed during our lifetime. Society as we knew it shut down. We forced students into online classrooms, restricted nursing home visits and discouraged family gatherings. In short, we isolated people, and even though we have moved past most of those restrictions, many are […]
YELLOWHAMMER: Supply chain calamity: Alabama truckers brace for pending rail union strike
A lack of consensus among labor unions on an agreement with the largest U.S. freight railroads could spell trouble for an already-strained American supply chain. Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) District 19 rejected an agreement negotiated by the union’s leadership with the railroads, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. IAM […]
FOX NEWS: Biden’s VA undermining law that gives veterans access to private health care
Sometime in 2021, the Department of Veterans Affairs took down a popular link on its website that explained how veterans can access medical care in the private sector under a law known as the Mission Act. The law was the latest congressional response to the scandal that erupted in 2014, when Veterans Affairs facilities across […]
THE CENTER SQUARE: Tuberville, congressional delegation urges Biden to address energy supply chain issues
One Alabama senator, along with nearly a dozen others in Congress, have called on the president to address supply chain shortages within the energy sector. U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-AL, penned a letter to President Joe Biden to express concerns over the supply of transformers and other raw materials used to manufacture energy components for […]
