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By Ruth Serven Smith Medicaid coverage will end for millions of Americans in the coming months, and it will push many into unfamiliar territory: the health insurance marketplace. States will start cutting people from the government-funded […]

By Kyle Whitmire This is an opinion column. When Kay Ivey first ran for governor, she campaigned with folksy ads in which she said cutely cryptic things. “There’s no step too high for a high-stepper,” Ivey […]

By Savannah Tryens-Fernandes The Alabama House Democratic caucus today announced its agenda for the 2023 session, a platform that includes proposals on taxes, education, healthcare, voting, and criminal justice. The caucus proposes exempting groceries from the state’s […]

By Savannah Tryens-Fernandes Marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma today to commemorate the 58th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the day in 1965 that white police beat Black civil rights marchers as they attempted […]

By Lee Roop Black History Month peaks in Huntsville over the next several days with free performances on the life and legacy of Dred Scott, the former Madison County slave whose fight for freedom after […]

By Michelle Matthews Just a few years ago, Vanessa Tucker had no idea what “autism” meant – or how it would shape her family’s future. Vanessa and her husband, Joaquin, knew their firstborn son, Julian, […]

Compiled by Speakin’ Out News staff; photo credits: Shelly Williams, Speakin’ Out News photographer (HUNTSVILLE, AL) — The Racial Equity Fund Annual Luncheon was held on February 9, 2023, at the Ernest Knight Center on […]

By DAVID PERSON I want Keith to get the second chance that we all want when we get in trouble. Whether innocent or guilty. Last week Thursday, a friend in Birmingham texted me about the […]

By Scott Turner The Alabama Department of Corrections will be releasing nearly 400 inmates statewide on Tuesday. The mass release – which will put the early- release inmates under the supervision of the Alabama Bureau […]

By Scott Turner  The Madison County Commission is still waiting for Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey to appoint a replacement for Dale Strong as chairman. “We are all trying to fill that role as best we […]