Last month, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall joined 19 other states in a letter to BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, challenging BlackRock’s use of ESG as investment criteria when managing state pension funds. While many people know what ESG ...
Biden Vaccine Mandate Could Impact Auburn and Alabama but They Should Not Give In
On September 9th President Joe Biden issued a wide-ranging COVID-19 vaccination mandate that requires all federal employees, contractors, and private sector workers at businesses employing more than 100 people to be fully vaccinated. As much as two-t ...
Alabama Needs to Look at Its Vaccine-Passport Ban Again
Towards the end of this legislative session, the State of Alabama passed SB267, which is commonly called Alabama’s vaccine passport ban. The law is pretty short, and it prohibits four things. First, it generally prohibits the government from iss ...
Podcast: The Importance of Protest as an American Freedom
In this episode of the 1819 Podcast, Bishop Jim Lowe, an API Distinguished Fellow and survivor of the 1963 bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church in downtown Birmingham, joins API Public Affairs Officer Scott Stantis and Director of Policy Analysis Pa ...
Alabama’s Doxing Bill: A Good Idea, But Needs Some Refining
Speaking up on public issues can be dangerous. There is always going to be some level of criticism when you address a controversial topic. But recently, our civil discourse has deteriorated so badly that speaking up on public issues draws not only c ...
Podcast: Alabama Voters and Governor Have Little Say in Public Health System
In this episode of the 1819 Podcast, API Public Affairs Officer is joined by Director of Policy Analysis Parker Snider to discuss the strange way Alabama organizes its state public health system. Listen below or by searching '1819' on your favorite p ...
Alabama governor and voters have little input into public health system
Alabama legislators are taking a look at how their branch has set up our state’s public health system. Currently, Alabama is the only state in the nation where the top health organization is not led by someone appointed by the governor or by a boa ...
Press Release: API Urges Governor to Rescind Pandemic Restrictions
Birmingham, Ala. - Today (March 3, 2021), by direct email to the governor’s office and members of the Governor's Coronavirus Task Force, the Alabama Policy Institute (API) formally urged the governor to rescind the existing mask mandate that has been ...
J. Pepper Bryars: It’s time to reform occupational licensing in Alabama
Did you know that it’s against the law to braid hair, wash hair, or even plant flowers professionally in Alabama without a license? That’s because occupational licensing, originally meant to protect consumers, has gotten way out of hand. A video rec ...
API at Rotary: Alabama reform needed for upward mobility
The Boaz Rotary Club welcomed representatives from the Alabama Policy Institute to its Oct. 17 meeting to discuss some of the organization’s 2019 priority issues that they said were chosen to help low-income Alabamians achieve upward economic mobilit ...